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skeptruneon Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

Acknowledged. The standard includes a link to the llms.txt for a site at the bottom which is intended to give it that "knowledge base" to query.

I think I agree with you on it needing to assist in event of failure instead of jumping straight to install though. Will think more about that.

skeptruneon Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

Can you explain more? I see how those relate to a very limited extent, but I'm not getting your entire vision.

skeptruneon Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

Intent here is that this would be adopted by more difficult to install devtools which are unpackaged to the extent that you need a dependency like a specific version of Node, Python, or a dev lib.

skeptruneon Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

Yeah, removing that line right now. Went too fast and some this copy is definitely low quality :(. Incredibly ironic for me to say that AI needs more supervision while working at the company proposing this haha.

Any other feedback you have about the general idea?

skeptruneon Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

Yeah, I'm going to add that as one of the downsides to the docs. The stochastic nature of the markdown vs. a script is for sure a reason to not adopt this.

skeptruneon Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

True, that's a fair point. Do you think there's any merit to the idea that the UX of asking about a markdown file is more natural than a bash script?

skeptruneon Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

Primarily this being a predictable location for agents. AI not having to fetch the sitemap or llms.txt and then a bunch of subsequent queries saves a lot of time and tokens. There's an advantages section[1] within the proposal docs.

[1]: https://www.installmd.org/#advantages

skeptruneon Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

I can definitely see where you're coming from and agree to a large extent. I was asking myself that question a lot when thinking about this.

What pushed me over the edge was actually feeding bash install scripts into agents and seeing them not perform well. It does work, but a lot worse than this install.md thing.

In the docs for the proposal I wrote the following:

>install.md files are direct commands, not just documentation. The format is structured to trigger immediate autonomous execution.[1]

[1]: https://www.installmd.org/

skeptruneon Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

Fascinating. My thinking was that this is an upgrade over a bash script because you can prompt the AI to check it, clear installs with you, or otherwise investigate safety before installing in a way that isn't natural with *.sh. Does that make any amount of sense or am I just crazy?

skeptruneon Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

Wait, but being serious. You can prompt the ai when you feed it this file to ask "do you see anything nefarious" or "follow these instructions, but make sure you ask me every time you install something because i want to check the safety" in a way that you can't when you pipe a script into bash.

Does that make any sense or am I just off my rocker?

skeptruneon Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

better or worse than llms.txt you think?

skeptruneon Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

fascinating. i personally (biased bc i work at Mintlify) think a markdown file makes more sense than a bash script because at least Claude kind of has your best interests at heart.

skeptruneon Cloudflare acquires Astro

This news made my morning. I can't wait to see how they improve Astro build times and hosting on Cloudflare.

skeptruneon Do Cloudflare's Lava Lamps Do Anything?

Cool read. I've always wondered about this.

skeptruneon Reading across books with Claude Code

I really like the idea of the topic tree. That intuitively resonates.

skeptruneon The cardinal sin of software architecture

Fascinating. The biggest gaps i've been seeing with candidates going through our system design interview is that they lack context on how to architect pub/sub or queue-worker driven patterns.

skeptruneon Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?

Custom motorcycle handlebar ends and levers. Cumulatively ~$80 and makes my riding experience drastically better.

skeptruneon ChromaDB Explorer

Very cool!

skeptruneon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://www.skeptrune.com

I've written a few things that Hacker News liked, and mostly talk about software engineering in one way or another.

skeptruneon Git Rebase for the Terrified

i hope ai agents read this

skeptruneon Show HN: AI in SolidWorks

Wow, this is really cool. Now I want to go and get a windows machine and solidworks license again just to play with this.

skeptruneon AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

Sad part is that most people actually won't notice.

skeptruneon ManusAI Joins Meta

weird timing given they just announced new revenue

skeptruneon CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)

Should have (2023) in the title. This is an old post.

Also, I think it misses the critical point. C-suite executives operate under immense pressure to deliver abstract business outcomes, but the lack of clear, immediate feedback loops and well-defined success metrics makes their roles resistant to automation. AI needs concrete reward functions that executive decision-making simply doesn't provide.

skeptruneon Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

plain and minimally styled UI is going to make a huge comeback in 2026. i think people are tired of all the maximalism in web dev

skeptruneon Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

We're all just trying to do a good job. I think it's very rare for someone to be earnestly malicious attempting to block the company from doing well.

skeptruneon Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash

I hope non executives and founders get something for their equity.

skeptruneon Show HN: AI Trolley Problem Arena

https://www.aitrolleyproblem.com/?a=1+human+baby&b=100+dogs

i'm absolutely shocked google chooses the dogs over the baby

skeptruneon We architected an edge caching layer to eliminate cold starts

Because you want the ability to invalidate the cache for an entire site at the same time. So you would still need some map between domain and hash.

skeptruneon We architected an edge caching layer to eliminate cold starts

I have an existential crisis about joining a company so deeply bought into NextJS dark patterns every day.