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gregwebs • yesterday at 10:18 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Agreed, and this seems better.

My thought though has always been that I don't want there to be agent-only designated documentation.

I use mattpocock/skills and that generates ADRs (Architectural Decision Records). That only uses skills, including a setup skill that will write a few pointers in AGENTS.md. I always have a CONTRIBUTING.md to document development flow and a CODING_STANDARDS.md. Between those and the README.md and architecture documentation and commit messages the agents seem to be able to find and use docs and keep them up to date. We are also writing a lot of specs and putting those in Github issues.


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gojogs • today at 10:33 AM

I've found that most of LLM generated docs are diluted and unfocused. Spending 3 paragraphs on some quirk of a library, then 2 simple examples of a command.

I write README and docs by hand, thus only important stuff goes in there. If it is not worth my attention to write down, it's not worth writing down.

Smaller context, easier to consume.

cyanydeez • yesterday at 11:53 PM

I've got basically a loop of docs, test (TDD) and code. Starting with and IMPLEMENT-<plan name>.md. I ask to revise as TDD, then loop.

Once qwen3.8-flash-next showed up, it cañ go "forever" with dynamic context pruning.

It's fascinating for local coding.

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