My gut instinct is that this is about when all of their on prem servers were EOL and their /public cloud solution was required. This must have had something to do with that
We built our own and aren't done open sourcing it but before that I got to a really good place with opencode plus some custom agents, pi family is good too although I haven't used it as much. We made an agent to design a spec, one to implement by dispatching subagents, one to validate against the plan, things like that. All of this helps claude/gpt too IME. For open models it has helped them stay out of loops (e.g. Kimi's but WAIT) and for frontier it helps them stay on task and not invent bloated patterns
I’m sorry but in this day and age, why would you not use AI with safeguards? With giving it the proper context and best practices you’re looking for. These are all very solved in Claude and any agentic system. Are you saying that you don’t? This just feels insulting to those of us who do care about code but do love Claude
Setting up a clean room is one of the only ways to do Evals on agentic harnesses. Especially prevalent with Windsurf which doesn’t have an easy CLI start.
So how? The easiest answer when allowed is docker. Literally new image per prompt. There’s also flags with Claude to not use memory and from there you can use -p to have it just be like a normal cli tool. Windsurf requires manual effort of starting it up in a new dir.
The biggest clue I’ve seen is someone using it to do cold calls on websites. Claw searches for shoddy-looking construction sites, makes a better version on Vercel, and sends out a pitch.
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