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alertchecker

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    Comment #49317916

    The MCP part: If you're using Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity etc. and install the connector you can then say "alert me when [...]" directly in a chat and an alert will be created for …

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    Show HN: AlertChecker – get emailed when a plain-English statement comes true

    I built AlertChecker to help address a limitation with AI chatbots - they only respond when you've asked them something. You talk to them and they talk back. I wanted a way for the…

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    Comment #49317798

    Think we're pretty close to the point where we'll no longer need to prompt AI to refactor or review the refactoring if it's done within tight constraints i.e. absolutely no change …

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    Comment #49311904

    It can't be AI-generated - AI doesn't swear

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    Comment #49311884

    Agreed, think the first user rule I ever put into Cursor was "Don't write code comments unless absolutely necessary to explain something that couldn't just be inferred"

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    Comment #49311843

    My personal experience is the larger the task you ask it to do, the less attention it pays to the details - for a very large task it seems more prone to missing test coverage, writ…

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    Comment #49311587

    I've been coding professionally for almost 30 years and it's only really in the last few months I've started to "trust" AI to do a better job than I can within given time constrain…