How One Grad Student's Thesis Workflow Forced an Agent Platform to Rework Its Backend
tekbog · x · 2026-09-10
The developer of Clanker Cloud shares how one user completed a Master's thesis on the platform, driving multiple product overhauls: rewriting backend and memory for 1,000 loaded files (PDFs, ePubs, docs), improving querying and file usage for research, building a bookmarks system with tagging and reuse, and adding per-workflow agents with limits disabled — the hard parts being sub-agent coordination and fitting everything into the context window.
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