Maybe it will go that way eventually. I haven't got into being able to hand off to agents in the cloud yet, I think as good as LLMs are getting, for complex / professional work the agents still need a lot of steering. I just have to be in the editor with the agent!

I think OpenClaw is the reason we are getting so much AI slop these days. The comments here with "key insights" are coincidentally < 1 month old. It seems for some reason, OpenClaw/NanoClaw loves Show HN posts.

Having used a less formalised version of the process (manually managing the agent files but having the user / agent conversation structure the same), I've been getting some really good results out of the agent on some long running complex tasks. I'm seeing so many people talking about leaving agents running and completing projects end to end without any intervention, but my experience so far is that decent software still needs architecture guidance and a human sense of 'taste'.

Harsh but fair!

Agreed. Also multiple humans. One task per person works great (no Git conflicts). I'll think about this more. I'm thinking that having the agent work through an MCP server might be a means of mitigating the issue. I'd rather keep the sync process in Git if I can.

Structure certainly helps, and that's what the markdown format here does. How do you measure the effect of the structure?