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Re:How to Kill the Code Review on Monday March 02, 2026 @06:13PM (#47225624)
author here - a few things: 1) code review was always a lossy verification system 2) to eliminate the need for code reviews, we should build systems that can blend predictive execution with deterministic verification 3) if we cannot build bug-free systems, we have to resilient ones 4) a core value of code reviews is knowledge sharing - this we must still preserve through specs reviews

Show HN: Runbooks – Shareable Claude Code Sessions

Posted by ankitdce on Monday November 24, 2025 @01:39PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.aviator.co/runbooks

When we asked developers from large engineering teams, almost everyone is using Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot. But adoption is still inconsistent. Some of us would have 15 agents running in Claude Code at the same time; some would still refuse to use any of them and write code manually.There's a fragmented AI development problem: - Five developers building similar features, and all of them...

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Re:Ask HN: What's the one feature you'd want in a GitHub productivity ... on Sunday December 01, 2024 @10:34AM (#42288902)
Have you tried https://github.com/aviator-co/av
Re:Why some of us like "interdiff" code review systems (not GitHub) on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @04:57PM (#41515283)
Yeh, Attention Set is a game changer. We (Aviator) also took inspiration (ahem.. copied) attention set from Gerrit: https://docs.aviator.co/attentionset
Re:Why some of us like "interdiff" code review systems (not GitHub) on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @04:51PM (#41515239)
If you are looking for an open source stacked PRs CLI, you can look into av CLI (https://github.com/aviator-co/av). Unfortunately this also only works with GitHub, but it should be possible to add support for any Git-based platform.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Aviator who supports the av CLI. It's a free tool to manage stacked PRs.

Show HN: Open-Source Stacked PRs on GitHub

Posted by ankitdce on Monday August 26, 2024 @12:13PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/aviator-co/av

Hi HN!I’m Ankit, co-founder of Aviator, a developer productivity platform. Today, we’re excited to introduce our open-source Stacked PRs CLI, designed to streamline your GitHub workflow by helping you stack smaller changes for faster review cycles.Why use stacked PRs CLI:- Seamlessly works with your existing GitHub setup. - Smaller changes make reviews faster and unblocks developers. - Easy to...

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Re:Gitlab is reportedly up for sale on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @02:57PM (#41238413)
There are a few free open source tools available these days to manage the stacked PRs. Eg: https://github.com/aviator-co/av
Re:Big Companies vs. Startups (2015) on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @11:32PM (#40374962)
Background: I've worked on all side of this spectrum, left Google 10 years ago and have been working in startups since then. And now founder of a startup.

I agree that from a financial outcome perspective, the odds of making big in startups may not be in your favor.

"Interesting work" perspective may need a bit more color. No matter if you work in a big tech or startup - majority of the work is very mundane. Even if you are working on the coolest AI big-tech or startup, you are probably not doing "exciting cutting edge" work most of the time!

This is probably also why folks who join a startup looking for exciting work get bored quickly with the day-today mundaneness.

Eventually what matters from the interesting work perspective is to understand what part of the work truly gives you joy - what makes you excited about getting off the bed and do great work - even the mundane one.

The motivation could be - seeing your product being used by millions of users, solving a hard problem, sharing your research with the world, having a great work-life balance, or getting rich. Understanding that can help answer the question on what is right place for you.

One challenge I've found in big-tech is that even if the company is doing amazing work, not everyone gets an opportunity to work on the most exciting projects.

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