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I don't buy that. If I give AI a high-level task and expect it to fill in the blanks on the lower level details, it makes horrendous decisions, trust me I tried. I tried treating my agents as a team of engineers and I am a "high level" engineering manager. It quickly built broken features.
This is sort of my approach as well, but is your team on the same page as you? or are they far more AI-pilled? everyone around me is much more AI-pilled so this mismatch in approach to AI is making it hard to collaborate
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charbz on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:37PM
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I am genuinely curious about this question and want to understand people's experiences. I'm a principal engineer with decades of experience, I am currently working on a massive codebase that does RPA (data entry automation for old software). I can get my agents to build complex features from scratch, However, if I don't describe exactly how it needs to be built (low level specs), or if I don't...
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charbz on Sunday July 26, 2026 @11:45PM
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This is amazing , really brings me back to those sweet old days. Just curious, is this built with any JS framework ? the code looks like its vanilla JS !! which is fantastic ..
and is it open source / Github project ?
Thank you all for the great feedback you have given me.
Please join the CodeOwl subreddit to stay in touch, I will be posting updates over there for all the features requested in this thread !
https://www.reddit.com/r/codeowl/
Happy Coding
I guess it's all relative , but we recieved about 7200 unique user sessions in 2 days from HN. Let me know when your Show HN is published :)
We got quite a bit of traffic , and the target group is perfect for codeowl, also the feedback has been overwhelming and mostly positive. I think Show HN is a great idea for dev tools
Search is a feature we are working on for the next update
any format in particular ? .. JSON would be the most natural , XML is possible .. plain text probably the most useful
export sounds like an awesome feature to add .. I guess the format of the exported data is something I'd have to think about
very interesting .. I will be looking into that ! thank you
This seems to be the most consistent feedback we've had so far, so you can definitely expect tiling mode to come soon
I would say the most obvious difference is having all your notes / dashboards in the cloud, accessible through a web-browser, and being able to share them with others through a url
I like the localStorage persistence ! you can expect this feature to be there soon , thanks for the feedback
We were thinking of making a desktop client for codeowl , but chrome plugin might be even easier
yikes .. this is what happens when you ship ship ship ! thanks for the report
do you mean color for text , or for the widgets themselves .. we do plan on creating a dark theme , as well as adding more coloring options to the widgets
as of today , we only implemented the cloud version running with firebase on the backend , but a localhost solution is definetly in the works. I can send you an email once a localhost version is ready -- stay in touch
[email protected]
Thank you ! feel free to write me on
[email protected] your feedback is much appreciated
glad you find this useful .. this came about after years of frustration as a dev
Interesting, thanks for reporting !
This might be the best solution .. we will check the feasibility of it
great idea ! to start off with a pre-filled todo list
Thank you
I am using firebase for storage currently the model is completely free , once you create enough dashboards you can request extra space also for free ( for all early adopter and for the foreseeable future )
Awesome feedback , we were unsure between complete free-form and a grid system but seems like many people prefer a more rigid grid
tabs can be renamed , simply click on the tab and change the name