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If you see my reply, I would absolutely love it if you could email akshaysg@haystackeditor.com with some details about your desired use cases!

Thank you for the kind words! RE Pricing: Because of the high volume of our customers, this is quite necessary unfortunately. We can definitely shift down costs as existing intelli…

I think that AI coding is only going to grow in usage. I also think that AI more-or-less writes working code that is faithful to the user's prompt. At the same time, AI does not wr…

Yeah I agree it's a shame. Unfortunately coding has changed fast and I was not confident that the editor was in the correct direction with AI coding becoming so prevalent. I think …

I think Haystack offers: 1. A centralized review mechanism for a team or org that operates on coding agent conversations in addition to diffs (and the codebase). It evaluates multi…

Hey HN! We're building Haystack ( https://haystackeditor.com/ ) to help teams deal with the explosion in the number of pull requests that need to be reviewed due to the rise of cod…

I've been thinking a lot about this! Redoing the work as smaller PRs might help with readability, but then you get the opposite problem: it becomes hard to hold all the PRs in your…

Hi HN! We’re launching Haystack Review, a chat-based tool for reviewing pull requests. Instead of starting from diffs and reconstructing the author’s intention and decisions from s…

Hi HN, I’ve been working on a solution to something I personally view as a problem: increasing amounts of AI Slop in PRs. I’ve noticed that some contributors on GitHub have been us…

Public repositories seem to be getting more AI-generated pull requests, some of which are low-effort and haven’t been manually reviewed. We built Haystack Slop Detector to scan PRs…

I originally made this to occupy time while folks were waiting for their reviews to spin up, but thought it would be fun to release as a game for Halloween! Let me know if I need t…

I originally made this to occupy time while folks were waiting for their reviews to spin up, but thought it would be fun to release as a game for Halloween! Let me know if I need t…

Will add this then!

We use a mixture of LLMs (e.g. to identify the important variables to trace), language servers (to understand where a variable is originally defined and where it's used).

We may go back to code visualization for editors, but after testing it with a lot of engineers, we found that it was too confusing for code reviews. The main issue was just how ali…

> 1. Allow me to step through the code execution paths that have been modified in the pull request, based on the tests that have been modified. Not sure if I fully grasp this! We t…

Ahah! Thanks for the feedback.

Yes! I personally iterate without understanding the code too much (since it'll change), and fully assess what Claude Code (in my case) has done after I finished a piece of work.

Thanks for the feedback! Not sure if I fully grasp what you mean by dog whistling, but at the end of the day, like another commenter said, Haystack is also pretty helpful for when …

Yes! We haven't wholly given up on that idea by the way ;)

>If AI writes all of the code, we will need to max out humans’ ability to do architecture and systems design. Strongly agree with this. There are demos that you're able to try, by …

Yeah I did this too as an engineer! I think this is a valid part of the "crafting PR" skill that's under appreciated, and part of the goal of Haystack here is to make that part of …

Interesting. At my previous company there was a debate about smaller PRs vs bigger PRs and the end conclusion was that there are tradeoffs in being able to deal with 2-5 bite-sized…

Sorry to clarify: you hit "back" after traversing from the summary but it doesn't go back? If so, that's a bug! Or do you mean that doing the browser navigation of "back" should br…

> you likely have a bigger organizational issue Could you expound on this? In my experience as a software engineer, a pull request could fall into one of two buckets (assuming it's…