i think he means it's 'just' a thin concat

most useful prompt stuff seems 'simple' to implement ultimately, so it's more impressive to me that such a simple idea of TODO goes so far!

(agent frameworks ARE hard in serious settings, don't get me wrong, just for other reasons. ex: getting the right mix & setup devilishly hard, as are infra layers below like multitenacy, multithreading, streaming, cancellation, etc.)

re: the TODO list, strong agree on criticality. it's flipped how we do louie.ai for stuff like speed running security log analysis competitions. super useful for preventing CoT from going off the rails after only a few turns.

a fun 'aha' for me there: nested todo's are great (A.2.i...), and easy for the LLM b/c they're linearized anyways

You can see how we replace claude code's for our own internal vibe coding usage, which helps with claude's constant compactions as a heavy user (= assuages issue of the ticking timer for a lobotomy): https://github.com/graphistry/louie-py/blob/main/ai/prompts/...