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Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle

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159 points jbredeche | 5 comments | 06 Oct 25 10:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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SeanAnderson ◴[09 Oct 25 20:06 UTC] No.45532414[source]▶
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/obra/dotfiles/6e088092406c... contains the following entry:

"- If you're uncomfortable pushing back out loud, just say "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K". I'll know what you mean"

Most of the rules seem rationale. This one really stands out as abnormal. Anyone have any idea why the engineer would have felt compelled to add this rule?

This is from https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/05/how-im-using-coding-agents-... mentioned in another comment

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threecheese ◴[09 Oct 25 22:17 UTC] No.45533662[source]▶
If you really want your mind blown, see what Jesse is doing (successfully, which I almost can’t believe) with Graphviz .dot notation and Claude.md:

https://blog.fsck.com/2025/09/29/using-graphviz-for-claudemd...

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1. blibble ◴[09 Oct 25 22:40 UTC] No.45533776[source]▶
this is just 21st century voodoo
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2. oblio ◴[10 Oct 25 00:39 UTC] No.45534452[source]▶
In a good sense or a bad one?
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3. babyshake ◴[10 Oct 25 00:43 UTC] No.45534478[source]▶
I'd say a bad one. Why make your Claude.md not intuitive to understand and edit?
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4. aitchnyu ◴[10 Oct 25 08:49 UTC] No.45536638[source]▶
One AI tool dev shared me his prompts to generate safe SQL queries for multi-tenant apps and I was surprised at the repetitiveness and the urging.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299774

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