On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM Marcus B <[email protected]> wrote:
> The main problem with the coding front ends is their lack of good > knowledge of anything that's not modern, and they will tend to make stuff > up to avoid doing a lot of work to find out how to do it all. > > That's why people are really excited with Open Claw / Hermes Agent / > Nanobot, etc... They are designed to spend extra time learning, rather than > just relying on how they were trained. Codex is one of the LLM backends for > these agents. I usually add something into the SOUL.md files about not > trusting their own training over what references are available in the files > available. > > The bot I created deliberately made skills to follow design patters > particular to the platform. Removing the assumptions means less > hallucinations. > > It's a good idea. Actually it seems like the set of programming techniques could be directly useful to retro enthusiasts and paleocoders even aside from AI coding. There were smart people writing a lot of code and no one has really tried to catalog their innovations. -- John.
