out of topic, but does having line "Coding guidelines for AI agents working on this project." helps anything or is it just a nose? Don't agents already assume file called "AGENTS.md" will contain exactly that?
More to the point, why don't coding LLMs have these sort of basics as part of their prompt in the first place? Isn't it like adding, "please don't make mistakes" again and again in the hope it won't just be slop?
hey i'm adam. i'm a software engineer who's way too into backend, distributed systems, and hunting down edge cases for fun. also i play piano by ear and math's kinda fun
Totally agree. I always add this to the AGENTS.md:
share this AGENTS.md file
looks cool
out of topic, but does having line "Coding guidelines for AI agents working on this project." helps anything or is it just a nose? Don't agents already assume file called "AGENTS.md" will contain exactly that?
More to the point, why don't coding LLMs have these sort of basics as part of their prompt in the first place? Isn't it like adding, "please don't make mistakes" again and again in the hope it won't just be slop?
in mine as well ;)