I will say one thing Claude does is it doesn't run a command until you approve it, and you can choose between a one-time approval and always allowing a command's pattern. I usually approve the simple commands like `zig build test`, since I'm not particularly worried about the test harness. I believe it also scopes file reading by default to the current directory.

I'm definitely not running that on my machine.

While this may be the end goal, I do think humanity needs to take the trip along with AI to this point.

A mind reading ultimate agent sounds more like a deity, and there are more than enough fables warning one not to create gods because things tend to go bad. Pumping out ASI too quickly will cause massive destabilization and horrific war. Not sure who against really either. Could be us humans against the ASI, could be the rich humans with ASI against us. Anyway about it, it would represent a massive change in the world order.

> It's so sad that we're the ones who have to tell the agent how to improve by extending agent.md or whatever.

Your improvement is someone else's code smell. There's no absolute right or wrong way to write code, and that's coming from someone who definitely thinks there's a right way. But it's my right way.

Anyway, I don't know why you'd expect it to write code the way you like after it's been trained on the whole of the Internet & the the RLHF labelers' preferences and the reward model.

Putting some words in AGENTS.md hardly seems like the most annoying thing.

tip: Add a /fix command that tells it to fix $1 and then update AGENTS.md with the text that'd stop it from making that mistake in the future. Use your nearest LLM to tweak that prompt. It's a good timesaver.

It is not a mind reader. I enjoy giving it feedback because it shows I am in charge of the engineering.

I also love using it for research for upcoming features. Research + pick a solution + implement. It happens so fast.

As long as we're on the same page that what he's describing is itself a miracle.