Yeah we all hear the main arguments… AI is bad because of slop content, stealing from creators, brain rot & brain damage, privacy concerns and most importantly… how billionaires are just using it for their own selfish reasons
But I’m asking about YOU 🫵 personally. The individual. What do you really think about AI? Do you care or are you indifferent? Has it actually affected your day to day life?
Openspec is along these lines and works well ime
Yeah it’s a nice tool, you really just need a bit of rails to keep the model on track I find. They’re good at doing well defined tasks, and if you have a plan where they just check steps off as they go, things tend to work well. I also found beads is a really handy tool for task tracking cause then you can just file stuff in there and instead of writing tasks in markdown you have a real history along with the status of the tasks. It solves the problem with markdown checklists getting stale.
good to know, I’ll check out beads. I was forced to start using Claude at work and had mixed impressions but once we started using openspec to keep it on rails as you say, it got hard to deny its capabilities.
I find I kind of look at the whole LLM + agentic harness setup as a genetic algorithm. Your tests and specs are the fitness function for the program you’re evolving, and the LLM is the mutator. At each step it generates some output, it gets tested against the fitness function, the LLM gets feedback and iterates on it. Eventually something working falls out in the end. The better you can define the selection criteria the more you box the agent in the better results you get.