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A comment on Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?.

Re:Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of us... by just-tom on Friday July 03, 2026 @03:33AM (#48772037)
I'm building "workboxes" to work on my startup. It helps me develop features insanely fast. A workbox is a simple worktree-in-a-sandbox per feature. I have a simple front end where I can launch new workboxes: I input a prompt (a documented grilling session) and it creates a branch, a PR, and starts an opencode coding session on an e2b sandbox based on a custom template with the app's monorepo. Each workbox has a public https endpoint so I can manually test the web app after the coding session is complete. At any point I can either approve the PR, send a follow-up prompt, or connect to the opencode session for more control.

I think my next step is to perform the grilling session inside the front end, currently I perform it in my terminal and then paste in the front end.

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of us... by LikelyLiar on Friday July 03, 2026 @04:10AM (#48772291)
Is it similar to how Claude Code Web works? It generates a cloud container and clones your repo, and works on a whatever you want (preferebly something specific), and then it generates a branch and a PR.
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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of us... by just-tom on Friday July 03, 2026 @04:41AM (#48772511)
I guess. I never worked with Claude Code Web, but it sounds like it serves the same purpose.

The challenge I dealt with is actually running all services on the same machine - 4 services, each needs their own port, 2 of them need docker. Then injecting their sandbox urls into env vars for communication. All to have a fully working app with all services running - I just go to the public web app url and test.

Nonetheless, I'll look into CC Web, thanks for the mention.

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