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Proud to have helped edit an earlier draft of this — go Dexter go!

Hi HN! We launched Codebuff last week, and it gave us a fun idea to try: Twitch plays Codebuff. We rigged up Twitch chat to control an old laptop of ours by sending Codebuff comman…

Thanks! Yup, so long as you don't have key bindings for meta-x and meta-c, you ought to be good in the terminal. We honor any repository's .gitignore and won't touch those files. W…

It seems like we're all in our own tech bubbles more and more. Distribution is clearly a tough problem to crack, and no one in this space has really mastered it yet, aside from arg…

Thanks! That's awesome to hear – if you wouldn't mind me asking, what was the context and tech stack of your side project? We love hearing about the wide variety of use cases peopl…

I assume you're referring to it guessing at what command you might type next? If so, the closest I can think of is Warp. Have you tried it?

Good question – here are a few reasons: - It chooses files to read automatically on each message — unlike Cursor’s composer feature. It also reads a lot more than Cursor's @codebas…

brace yourself. the night critics are coming.

Will do Also forwarding to our competitors, but something tells me they will ignore this.

> The sexy demos don't, in my opinion and experience, win over the engineers and leaders you need. Great point, we're in talks with a company and this exact issue came up. An engin…

Tongue-in-cheek! No idea what you're talking about. But I appreciate the kind words :) Ultimately, I think a future where the limit to good software is good ideas and agency to rea…

Beyond what James highlighted, I personally really like how simple Codebuff is. CLI tools tend to go a bit overboard with options and configurations imo, which is ok if you're just…

Thanks for sharing – I definitely want to plays with Aider more. My knowledge of it is limited, but IIRC Aider doesn't pull in the right files to create context for itself like Cod…

Heh, this is an underrated comment. Fundamentally, I think codegen a pretty new space and lots of people are jumping in because they see the promise. Remains to be seen what the co…

I'm sure your prompting is great! It's just hard because LLMs tend to be very wordy by default. This was something we struggled with for a while, but I think we've done a good job …

Great idea! We were kicking around something like this, but couldn't get it ready in time for today's launch – but keep your eyes peeled! Our Discord community is a great place to …

Ah, good catch. We (read: I) introduced a bug that gave customers $500 worth of credits in a month as opposed to the $100 they paid for, and this user saw that and took advantage. …

Amazing, glad it worked well for you! I main VSCode but tried Zed in my demo video and loved the smoothness of it. Totally understand where you're coming from, I personally use it …

Nice, super simple. We're definitely fitting into this definition of RAG then!

Gotcha – so broadly encompasses how we give external context to the LLM. Appreciate the extra note about vector databases, that's where I've heard this term used most, but I'm glad…

Thanks for being an early user and supporter! You've helped us catch so many issues that have helped us get the product to where it is today!

FWIW I don't find that I'm losing good engineering habits/thought processes. Codebuff is not at the stage where I'm comfortable accepting its work without reviewing, so I catch bug…

Hah no, you're not alone! Candidly, this is one of the top complaints from users. We're doing a lot of prompt engineering to be safe, but we can definitely do more. But the ones wh…

Genuine question: at what point does the term RAG lose its meaning? Seems like LLMs work best when they have the right context, and that context must be pulled from somewhere for t…

Thanks for being one of our early users and dealing with our bugs! I love that we can fit into so many developers' workflows and support them where _they are_, as opposed to forcin…