Comment by roxolotl

Comment by roxolotl a day ago

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> But interns learn and get better over time. The time that you spend reviewing code or providing feedback to an intern is not wasted, it is an investment in the future. The intern absorbs the knowledge you share and uses it for new tasks you assign to them later on.

This is the piece that confuses me about the comparison to a junior or an intern. Humans learn about the business, the code, the history of the system. And then they get better. Of course there’s a world where agents can do that, and some of the readme/doc solutions do that but the limitations are still massive and so much time is spent reexplaining the business context.

viraptor 21 hours ago

You don't have to reexplain the business context. Save it to the mdc file if it's important. The added benefit is that the next real person looking at the code can also use that to learn - it's actually cool for having good up to date documentation is now an asset.

  • adastra22 20 hours ago

    Do you find your agent actually respecting the mdc file? I don’t.

    • viraptor 19 hours ago

      There should be no difference between the mdc and the text in the prompt. Try something drastic like "All of responses should be in Chinese". If it doesn't happen, they're not included correctly. Otherwise, yeah, they work modulo the usual issues of prompt adherence.

      • adastra22 18 hours ago

        I suspect that Cursor is summarizing the context window, and the .mdc directives are the first thing on the chopping room floor.

xarope a day ago

I think this is how certain LLMs end up with 14k worth of system prompts

  • Terr_ 21 hours ago

    "Be fast", "Be Cheap", "Be Good".

    *dusts off hands* Problem solved! Man, am I great at management or what?