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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Sunday October 12, 2025 @10:26PM (#45564138)
this looks so cool! I wish it told me if the levels found for tested products were good/bad - I have no prior reference so the numbers meant nothing to me
https://www.repoprompt.com is better. You need more granular control if you're planning to use this in real large codebases.
Re:OpenAI O3-Mini on Friday January 31, 2025 @10:02PM (#42895243)
I use Cursor and Composer in agent mode on a daily basis, and this is basically exactly what happened to me.

After about 3 weeks, things were looking great - but lots of spagetti code was put together, and it never told me what I didn't know. The data & state management architecture I had written was simply just not maintainable (tons of prop drilling, etc). Over time, I basically learned common practices/etc and I'm finding that I have to deal with these problems myself. (how it used to be!)

We're getting close - the best thing I've done is create documentation files with lots of descriptions about the architecture/file structure/state management/packages/etc, but it only goes so far.

We're getting closer, but for right now - we're not there and you have to be really careful with looking over all the changes.

Re:Discovery Coding on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @08:34AM (#42864729)
Damn this is me to a T.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023) on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:45PM (#36960518)
Ahh just our luck with a untimely GraphQL issue - we just fixed!!
Re:iOS 14 is available today on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @05:40PM (#24498308)
What's something you wish existed/suggest?
Makes me think of http://waldo.io, but for web apps! Really excited about the new wave of no-code test automation tools - definitely helps semi-technical team members take on more responsibility on the testing side vs. just writing specs.
Re:Oppose the Earn IT Act on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:58PM (#23707262)
Oddly specific, but this is such a great plausible example that I'm going to use from now on.
This is really cool! The inspiration behind creating this reminds me of another app too: https://getstack.app