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424 points · 143 comments · sidharthkmenon

  1. bbor · · focus · HN ↗
    Oh WOW, cool to see a technique that'll be everywhere in 12 months (the fake pen drawing animations + streaming diagrams as they're produced) first be announced. Do we still do "First!" comments, y'all?

    ~~[EDIT: you need to put "only for macOS" in way more prominent places, all over -- that offends my soul greatly and may Linus frown upon you all]~~ [EDIT2: I was mistaken!]

    This all looks really solid. That said, two remarks:

    1. The integration with OS LSPs is quite fun and commendable. Is it possible that the diagrams might get their own LSP, someday? Or is better just staying as direct TS callsites?

    2. The choice of the word "IDE" seems like it might get you in trouble, given the small "cannot edit files" detail. Any comments on the decision there, as opposed to, say... "brainstorming tool"? Or hell, "[architectonic] harness"?

    3. The psuedocode "semantic diff" thing is an incredible idea, wow. Props there.

    4. This language kinda concerns me: "how the requirements that you set were implemented". In my highly-arbitrary development flow, it ideally goes `idea -> spec/reqs -> plan -> test -> impl -> eval -> land -> review`, and this kind of tool seems explicitly targeted towards just the second and third with some partial coverage of their neighbors on either side. More concretely: by adding implementation, don't you lose a powerful specificity selling point and now have to compete with all full harnesses?

    5. Suggesting "GPT-6 Luna and Claude Opus 5.5" is presumably a typo? Cause the equivelant of Opus 5.5 is Astra, and even then not really.

    1. bpshaver · · focus · HN ↗
      There are a lot of emerging tools like this for which we will need a name. A similar one I randomly came across (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Maksim-Burtsev&#x2F;merl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Maksim-Burtsev&#x2F;merl) calls itself a &quot;Code Navigator.&quot;

      Along similar lines, I also don&#x27;t know what we&#x27;re calling tools like T3 or Superset. They&#x27;re basically harnesses for harnesses.

      1. Maksim-Burtsev · · focus · HN ↗
        Thanks for notice my project :)
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