I had the same thing happen a few months ago; posted about it on LinkedIn[1]. It's hilarious and clever.

1: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nickstinemates_my-favorite-th...

Rollout has been a little suspect. Hope it gets better.

I had a very bad start to it too, it lost track of where my source code was (in the repo! the current working directory!) and started grepping for .gitignore trying to get a foothold on where the git repo was.

And after that asked some questions that it already had answers to.

Started a brand new session and it's been OK since. Only drawn one silly conclusion so far, which I nudged it away from.

That's a pretty different tone from just a mere few months ago when everyone on this website was telling him to shut up.

Downplaying his vendetta into let bygones be bygones is pretty insane.

“This is all because I gave a speech [and also committed a string of sneaky acts that wouldn’t rouse as much sympathy if I fessed up to them here]!”

Also known as: downside without the upside.

The main operating model with git is going to go back to decentralized. Setting up and managing something like https://forgejo.org/ is a way better experience than constant interruptions by a faulty service that can't meet demand.

The open source contribution model as we once knew it is dead; you're not going to accept patches from random agents. The risk is way too high. And you can see that increasingly "AI Slop" makes it difficult to be a maintainer of any semblance of a popular repo.

So what's the value? A durable place to store work? hah.

Discovery? That part of Github has always been shitty.

So that leaves.. Github Actions? The thing that is down every other day and has been the subject of a few ~rug pulls~/attempted price hikes that are almost surely coming back?

Hitting a little too close to home with this comment.

This is why we built swamp[1].

Swamp teaches your Agent to build and execute repeatable workflows, makes all the data they produce searchable, and enables your team to collaborate.

We also build swamp and swamp club using swamp. You can see that process in the lab[2]. This combines all of the creativity of the LLM for the parts that matter, while providing deterministic outcomes for the parts you need to be deterministic.

1: https://swamp.club

2: https://swamp.club/lab

Solve for what?

The degree of choice point-to-point in the skill tree is actually quite limited in most circumstances. There are obviously items, like thread of hope, intuitive leap, or inversion of choice items like unnatural instinct which change it slightly.

If the question is path optimization to utilizing these nodes, Path of Building already does a good job. If the question is "what single node will give me the most theoretical power." It also solves that.

That's actually the beauty of Path of Exile as a whole - the different systems works in combination to lead to an outcome. As an example, If you're a life stacking build, finding unique ways to get as many life/strength nodes as possible. That's your gear and your passive tree working in tandem.

Speaking about using AI to optimize characters - not just the skill tree - you'd need to build some pretty sophisticated tools which do not yet exist to make that happen. No AI alone would be able to do it.

having to kitty-ssh or whatever to set appropriate terminfo otherwise it breaks was really irritating when i was trying it out. has that been fixed?

We built something similar[1], including integrated memory for debugging. It is very useful to have repeatable artifacts left behind every time you use an agent to accomplish a task.

The main design decision we took was to integrate with your existing agent instead of building a new one. Your harness, swamp, and you're off.

As an aside, building software for agents is incredibly fun.

1: https://swamp.club