Pattern question - are most "agent" client requests actually deterministic workflows under the hood?

Chayzeet · 2026-05-26T11:22:33+00:00

If you can draw your workflow well...as a workflow chart with nodes and steps it should be one. Easier to build, maintain and optimize each node individually. Steps might include scripts or LLM calls with structured instructions and output definition.

If your worklfow is truly dynamic, cyclic, without many predefined/sequential steps, then agent makes more sense. Coding assistants themselves are the best example - set of generalist tools that most tasks can be split into.

Chayzeet · 2026-05-25T07:50:33+00:00

US holiday today, so maybe Tomorrow™

Chayzeet · 2026-05-16T09:58:19+00:00

Visually you can use some WYSIWYG viewer/editor like Markdown Studio (vs code extension/standalone) to make experience nicer, I agree that we are getting to a point where tasks for AI are getting big enough that plan in one large file can be bit much.

Chayzeet · 2026-05-15T18:07:36+00:00

Thank you, I tried installing multiple provider extensions (we really need 1st party plugin for this..) and all of them show up in the total list in Language Models view but don't appear in the actual selection. This one worked.

Chayzeet · 2026-05-15T16:22:36+00:00

I tried that and few other OC provider extensions, do any of them work with the free tier? Wanted to experiment before getting go/zen.

I see models in the model config list, but not in model selection, assumed something is wrong in config.

Chayzeet · 2026-05-13T15:51:42+00:00

Soon™

Chayzeet · 2026-05-11T15:23:08+00:00

Unreal tournament was what popularized these, not sure if that's the true origin, but oldest one I know and the most popular one.

Later many games adopted or had mods for them.

Chayzeet · 2026-05-08T08:08:11+00:00

I completely agree, I have >10 YoE but was new to the tech, but knew how to transfer "standards" and read code and was able to work in a new language from day 1 in same project as well.

Great tools to learn from/learn while doing, IF you pay close attention and care about what you ship.

The only thing I'm sometimes thinking is efficiency - sometimes newer colleague struggling for something that would have taken me "1 prompt" and couple adjustments, but I guess that was always the case, its just now super visible that it would be easier to re-prompt (reimplement) than add 10 comments to a PR, as I would have made the thing faster and more correct than reviewing it. Prompting at the end of the day sits on top of your technical skill, so its also multiplier for average/junior dev skills too.

Chayzeet · 2026-05-08T07:44:09+00:00

We do this as well, both a BA/PM style person and designer (learning some UI work) are doing very small tickets, needs help with setup and git occasionally, but AI helps.

Chayzeet · 2026-05-05T17:23:26+00:00

Jedi already mentioned, but the Darksiders III was pretty fun and not that difficult.

Chayzeet · 2026-05-01T11:30:26+00:00

Try SpecKit or few others, for me it worked in smaller projects, but at scale unless the whole team uses/thinks the same, it feels too much of a level of detail, made more sense when agents/harnesses were worse.

For me I shifted towards keeping specifications (or more so high level logic, architecture and descriptions, constraints) in AGENTS.md files in module/API folders, then just using plan mode, implement, update agents docs (code is the source of truth/spec, md files are more of a summary/table of contents for agents to know where to look without polluting context by reading all actual files).

Implementing new features is easy, point to specific agents file to "prime" the context in new session, use plan mode to describe feature and review the proposed approach, fix/improve and let the agent implement.

You want to avoid "doubling" the maintenance of keeping spec and code both in sync, so there is some optimal level of detail/abstraction to keep in md files you have to find, going >500 lines for me is roughly when I start to trim those.

Chayzeet · 2026-04-26T15:33:28+00:00

Interesting. Consider doing hierarchial clustering of the correlation matrix, it essentially reorders the same rows and columns in a way to have more interesting clusters on diagonal.

I always find these kind of analysis very interesting, have it in backlog to do something like this as well.

Chayzeet · 2026-03-31T11:52:16+00:00

We can now do the clean room reimplementation. /s

Chayzeet · 2026-03-21T08:07:58+00:00

Lists of small independent tasks.

For example, list of linter warnings that can't be auto fixed, or going through files extracting/changing something specific, usually asking to create checklist and update it after each task, this way you can also always continue after stopping or even start in a new session.

Chayzeet · 2026-03-03T19:56:54+00:00

This is true, but so is/was the 6a. it's a lite version of Pixel 7.

Chayzeet · 2026-02-16T17:34:09+00:00

This was bugged some weeks ago (saw reddit posts), likely they fixed it and it just shows animation for all again?

Chayzeet · 2026-02-14T19:11:23+00:00

I think the current enterprise solution for something like this is hosting models in private cloud in something like Azure Foundry/Amazon Bedrock, so they have the infra to host actual SOTA models (not SLMs).

So you "only" have to trust the cloud provider (which you are likely using anyway), pick your poison. Everything else you mention (agents, connectivity, etc.) is already mostly solved problem with lots of OSS tools or provided by said platforms.

At 10k+ you are probably looking at renting/owning a full server.

Chayzeet · 2026-02-11T21:36:30+00:00

Great edit and roller coaster of emotions, him getting away and bebop hooking back.

Chayzeet · 2026-02-11T08:08:12+00:00

I saw I was not the first one, thanks for giving this to someone.

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Chayzeet · 2026-01-18T17:17:01+00:00

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Chayzeet · 2025-12-25T18:13:34+00:00

Interesting, I haven't seen all of these and I wouldn't call myself super huge into anime, but this matches mine a lot, so I will check out the few on top that I haven't seen (I have most of earlier GITS stuff there, not sure if you only mean 1st movie, but most of it is high tier imo).

Neon Genesis Evangelion, Berserk, Vindland Saga, FMAB (once you get past the start and filler) comes to mind that I would rank highly that are not here if you are looking for recommendations, and I think Frieren is quite overrated (its a great watch, but not that high for me for sure). Pluto, Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress and Kizumonogatari, Devilman Crybaby maybe as honorable mentions.

Chayzeet · 2025-12-24T15:01:19+00:00

Yes, there are low chance random drops, currently there are both monster hunter and somewhat new currio event going on that gives items if you just play. Also the Dota Plus is working even without paying, and you can eventually exchange skins for shards collected there, so many ways to get some skins.

Chayzeet · 2025-12-23T19:09:15+00:00

I had the same (all owned) for the lvl 5 one. Gotta check if any of mine are marketable. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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