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Paul Dix

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

Yeah, you're trying to figure it out.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

We don't have loops for that currently.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

Like right now, everything just has to go into a GitHub issue, right?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

So we use GitHub for all of our issue tracking and stuff like that.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

And we use the Kanban board and whatever.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

So it's like anything you're working on has to go into a GitHub issue.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

What I will typically do is I will, before I start something, I will create potentially like a markdown file to track what I'm doing, right?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

To track like the work.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

And I'll come up with like the whole design for the thing and whatever, right?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

But even that, the problem is if you put that up so people can review it, it is trivial to come up with a plan that's a few thousand words with words and some code snippets and whatever, right?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

Because you just do some brainstorming with the agent.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

Pretty easy to do that too, yeah.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

Yeah, do some brainstorming with the agent.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

You put together something.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

And the thing is, if you actually iterate with it, you could put together something that is actually like,

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

I think qualitatively pretty good, right?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

And it outlines in detail what you're going to do and how you're going to do it and what's important and all these other things.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

But again, the problem is like, I can do that with an agent in 30 minutes and it'll spin up like this, you know, 2000 word document with all this other stuff.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

Another human to review that, it's going to take them an hour or more to read it and digest it