alt Hacker NewsI'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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j45 • today at 12:18 AM
A lot of agentic software development feels like cowboy coding, set it up, let it rip and see what it figures out.
The slightest amount of guidance, input from experience can make a huge difference.
I’ve been trying to nudge agents (both Claude and GPT) into a red/green/refactor TDD loop and I’m increasingly unconvinced it’s worthwhile. TDD works for humans because it forces us into a pattern of doing the simplest thing that could work, then thinking about how to refactor that. An LLM can be prompted to do that without the skeleton of a failing test, and I plan to experiment with other methods of pushing them towards the same ends.