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Re:Making a Software Stack Agentic on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:45PM (#49746306)
Over the last couple years, I've seen the greatest improvements in my agentic coding not from new models or updated tools provided by companies like Anthropic or Cursor, but from direct integrations with and improvements to my own stack: the deterministic scripts and libraries that harness these agents for the specific technologies and products I work on.

This kind of stack deserves its own name: an “agentic software stack”, which is an opinionated stack that includes non-agentic tooling which guides both agents and engineers. In order for models to run for a long time with less monitoring and good results, a system with guardrails, guidance, norms, and transparency is essential.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) on Monday May 11, 2026 @09:59AM (#48095126)
https://casedaemon.com/

CaseDaemon: automated intake handling for immigration lawyers. Given a USCIS form to fill out and a set of documents and information, CaseDaemon automatically fills out the form with what it has and prompts the client (directly or via the user) for additional documentation or information needed to finish the application. Takes out a bunch of the back-and-forth between lawyer and client, and the busy-work of the lawyer mapping data to form and tracking requirements.

The product will be ready to use in a few weeks, but take a look at our homepage in the meanwhile, curious what people think!

Re:A Programming War Between 545 Wizards on Saturday June 14, 2014 @03:19PM (#7893432)
Come find us on our public hipchat room:

http://www.hipchat.com/g3plnOKqa

We're on all the time that we're working (though we may often be afk hacking away on the site/business). There you'll also often find the people who wrote the parsers we have, but mainly you'll want to chat with Nick Winter, who wrote Aether.

https://github.com/codecombat/aether

Re:We've Open-Sourced Everything on Monday January 06, 2014 @11:36PM (#7015573)
They're in the DB to keep the repository lean and mean. But they're also licensed under CC. You can find 'em here:

http://codecombat.com/editor/thang

They're in a custom JSON-vector format, and the app turns them into sprite sheets in the code.

Brunch is pretty awesome, by the way. We chose it because it only compiles the files that have changed, which is good because it takes at least 15 seconds to compile the whole app on a fast machine.

Re:We've Open-Sourced Everything on Monday January 06, 2014 @10:56PM (#7015393)
Also, just want to point out the CLA specifies contributed content is still owned by the creator, but we're also granted the right to distribute and license it on our end. So creators can always do what they want with their content.
Re:Beat This Level, Get A Programming Job on Saturday December 28, 2013 @06:59PM (#6977280)
We're not sure ourselves; we're testing the waters with this level to find out exactly that. And if it looks like this monetization strategy has legs, we'll aim to expand what we can provide to companies so we can be more compelling.

We'll be interested to hear what others think about this too!

Re:180,000 Child Programmers Versus 44 Ogres on Friday December 20, 2013 @08:19AM (#6941230)
Sorry for that, must have missed it! Send us an email at [email protected] for support; none of us are very good at Twitter.
Re:180,000 Child Programmers Versus 44 Ogres on Friday December 20, 2013 @08:16AM (#6941218)
It's on the list!
Re:The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @01:23PM (#6763211)
We're planning on open sourcing the whole site in the future anyway, so you'll be able to get your hands on it directly soon enough!
Re:The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @01:21PM (#6763194)
Yes, but because so much was getting shifted around and refactored and added. I don't think any more bugs were introduced than if he'd done the work over a two or three week period. He spent a good portion of that week refactoring a particularly old and central piece of code, and he spent the better part of the weekend fixing bugs both old and new. So overall I believe we're ahead.
Re:The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @01:18PM (#6763166)
He will. And I will. I've worked with him for years and while our code is not the best code, we do strive to make it maintainable. Especially for a large project like this that we'd like to build a community of coders around.
Re:The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @12:52PM (#6762939)
Not yet.