[ekidd]

The wrinkle is that the AI doesn't have a truly global view, and so it slowly degrades even good structure, especially if run without human feedback and review. But you're right that good structure really helps.

[mattgreenrocks]

Yet it still fumbles even when limiting context.

Asked it to spot check a simple rate limiter I wrote in TS. Super basic algorithm: let one action through every 250ms at least, sleeping if necessary. It found bogus errors in my code 3 times because it failed to see that I was using a mutex to prevent reentrancy. This was about 12 lines of code in total.

My rubber duck debugging session was insightful only because I had to reason through the lack of understanding on its part and argue with it.

[seunosewa]

Once you've gone through that, you might want to ask it to codify what it learned from you so you don't have to repeat it next time.

[Kiro]

I would love to see that code.

[EnPissant]

Try again with gpt-5.3-codex xhigh.

[sandos]

I have to 1000% agree with this. In a large codebase they also miss stuff. Actually, even at 10kloc the problems beging, UNLESS youre code is perfectly designed.

But which codebase is perfect, really?

[redox99]

AGENTS.md is for that global view.

[zozbot234]

The 'global view' doc should be in DESIGN.md so that humans know to look for it there, and AGENTS.md should point to it. Similar for other concerns. Unless something really is solely of interest to robots, it shoudn't live directly in AGENTS.md AIUI.

[sandos]

You can't possibly cram everything into AGENTS, also LLMs still do not perfectly give the same weight to all of its context, ie. it still ignores instructions.

[hyperadvanced]

Am I stupid or do these agents regularly not read what’s in the agents.md file?

[isodev]

That’s not what Claude and Codex put there when you ask them to init it. Also, the global view is most definitely bigger than their tiny, loremipsum-on-steroids, context so what do you do then?

[8note]

its still not truly global but that seems like a bit pie in the sky.

people still do useful work without a global view, and there's still a human in the loop witth the same ole amount of global view as they ever had.