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ecb_penguin on Aug 20, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents

> So the solution to using AI so you don't have to code, is to try to write some kind of pseudocode in AGENT.md and hope the AI does a bit better?

Umm, no. Where did you get that idea?

The purpose of the agent.md file is to give it instructions. Nothing about no-code AI said there would be no instructions...

pmg101 on Aug 20, 2025 [–]

I'm old enough to remember when computer code was called "instructions".

Eg, the 6502 instruction set. https://www.masswerk.at/6502/6502_instruction_set.html

History doesn't repeat but it rhymes!

ecb_penguin on Aug 20, 2025 | [–]

They are still called instruction sets.

> History doesn't repeat but it rhymes!

The only similarity is the word

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