alt Hacker NewsI'm curious why people care about such tracking? I hardly use an editor anymore, and I'm not alone. All that matters is who is signing off on the commit.
> Text a human wrote or edited should be considered close to sacred: an agent should be hesitant and have a very good reason to touch it.
Not sure I agree (particularly with code, not prose). If code is risky to change for reasons that aren't obvious, it should be commented as such. It doesn't matter how the bytes were generated.
> Another use case: the README.md, originally generated, where you rewrite the opening paragraphs. The agent should feel free to redo or append parts further downwards but should really think twice changing anything in the opener.
This, I understand.
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It may not matter for you, but it could help agents to recover context about some specific code
> I hardly use an editor anymore, and I'm not alone. All that matters is who is signing off on the commit. In such a context I won't distinguish between me and an agent. But same, almost no editor these days.
For coding, this is more useful for heavily vibecoded projects. Thb, for my own projects most likely I will end up using it only for specs and documentation, maybe in rare cases for some tests. But, I use it for agentic memory, where I can edit the memories as well, and the agent should tend to preserve my edits when updating them.
In general, my main use case is tracking texts in knowledge management systems.