Why “Agent” is being discussed
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My main issue with rtk is that rtk somehow messes modification and agent start polling same tool continuously.
by antupis · Sep 11, 2026
I used it in a similar way, and once you get it going, it's much faster, since it can reuse the background agent which now has a primed context. I got 30 sec turn around times.…
by dist-epoch · Sep 11, 2026
I don't think they're comparable. RTK just modifies the output of CLI tools to reduce the number of tokens, a Roslyn MCP gives the agent a fundamentally superior way of interact…
by VulgarExigency · Sep 11, 2026
Twelve search APIs ran through the same AI agent to see which one helps it most
by 2001asjad · Sep 11, 2026 · 3 points
There are no shortage of good harnesses out there, and you can re-use coding ones like pi, opencode, dsh even claude and codex. For most use-cases that is already the loop you n…
by neilellis · Sep 11, 2026
What I hate the most is people vomiting AI slop communicating with others. I have teammates who decided that an agent producing a wall of text summarizing changes in a pull requ…
by orphea · Sep 11, 2026
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