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Show threadesperent6d ago

> notes/ — Narrative. What happened each session — decisions, actions, open items. Append-only. Never modified after the day ends

I already have to fight the agent constantly to prevent it adding backwards compatibility, workarounds, wrappers etc. for things that I changed or removed. If there's even one forgotten comment that references the old way, it'll write a whole converter system if I walk out of the room for 5 minutes, just in case we ever need it, and even though my agents file specifically says not to (YAGNI, all backwards compatibility must be cleared by me, no wrappers without my explicit approval, etc.). Having a log of the things we tried last month but which failed and got discarded sounds like a bad idea, unless it's specifically curated to say "list of things that failed: ...", which by definition, an append only log can't do.

I have hit the situation where it discovered removed systems through git history, even. At least that's rare though.

esperentDec 18

> There are no "levers".

Everyone wants to believe that their community doesn't have levers. But this is just wishful thinking, ego talking. Of course HN has levers, of course the community here can be manipulated.

The easiest way I can see would be to frame a helpful, curious question to which your service just happens to be the answer. So then you most an Ask HN like "can anyone help me to understand why people do X" followed by a few sentences of your thoughts, then at the end say "I've been working on a service to help with this but we don't seem to be getting much to traction, here's a link".

Another approach would be "nerd sniping". Post your site but don't mention anything about what it's for and instead say "I'm having a problem with SSR rendering with NextJS on my site" or something like that. You'll get massive engagement.