I think the main thing which a lot of these articles miss is it's not just your Agents.md which can give you a model upgrade or the inverse.

But everything your harness looks at could be this. So the skills in your code base, the commands that you've added, the memories that were auto created, they all work towards improving or completely destroying your productivity.

And most of it is hidden. You hear people talk about this all the time where they'll be like, Oh, I use GSD or I use Superpowers and my results have gotten worse.

Your results might have gotten worse precisely because you use them (along with your memories and other skills).

Yes. I agree. It is not just AGENTS.md.

I got myself a Strix Halo system and a GLM coding plan. The qs to self was: what can I do when tokens are essentially unlimited? The opaque-ness of what my harness is, and how it grows over time & use, when using projects out there, makes it hard to know what is helping and what isn't.

Clearly, the harness, together with LLMs has utility. Yet, I can't help but feel that ... at times, I am struggling with the classic "explore-exploit" problem. Or one between having the system be deterministic and when it should be less so. When is my system in a local minima (and needs a good kick out of it, automated if possible), and when it is at a good place in the "global" state-action space.