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NoTool not named · 18 Mar 2026

For what we were trying to build - few small sets of features - using gsd was an overkill

btiwaree on Hacker News

In the thread “Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system”

Got in the way: Complex transcripts failed extraction; overkill for small feature sets.

… It also failed multiple times when either generating agent transcript or extracting things from agent transcript - once citing "The agent transcripts are too complex to extract from" - quite confounding considering it's the transcript you created. For what we were trying to build - few small sets of features - using gsd was an overkill. The idea was to get some learnings whether gsd could be useful - for our case it was a strong no. …