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Your AGENTS.md file doesn’t actually do anything (pivot-to-ai.com)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAq45fJln70&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
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[–] diz@awful.systems 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fucking knew it. I follow some idiot slopper thread and they are all always going on about their prompting and absolutely none of them ever even considered measuring the effects.

Having actually done optimizations including professionally once upon a time, its so ridiculous to see people thinking they optimize a stochastic process [when they don't even formally measure anything]. It is just gambling.