Someone mentioned this plannotator inbox in response to Ryan Dahl's (node, and deno creator) idea that Emails are a better way to talk to coding agents than IRC like interface.
talking to a coding agent is more like email than irc - because the interactions are few and far between, I often finding myself quoting their most recent text, answering multiple questions. addressing different topics. it's like replying to an email.
It makes me wonder if you could have a coding agent UI that was more like an email client or mailing list kind rather than chat
I agree with this because email is a better medium for this:
- asynchronous mode of communication
- can include rich media in repose
- can copy other workers (both bot, and humans) on the thread as needed
- Access control, traceability, and other "audit" concerns are already handled well on email.
- You can think of coding agent as another "remote" employee that you have seen outside of emails.
This is an idea worth pulling on.