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Re: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?

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Post by thatsayanfr »

5 years of programming here. My setup is embarrassingly simple compared to most in this thread.

VSCodium + Claude Code in the terminal. That's it. No worktrees, no swarms, no orchestrators.

What actually changed my workflow wasn't the tooling, it was realizing I needed to write better specs before touching any of it. I now spend the first 20-30 minutes of any non-trivial task just writing a plain markdown file describing what I want, what I don't want, and what "done" looks like. The agent output quality jumped more from that habit than from any tool switch.

For your workshop: I'd resist the urge to show people the impressive stuff first. The gap between "wow it wrote my whole app" and "why did it silently delete my database logic" closes fast, and people who start with unrealistic expectations struggle more in the long run than people who started slower and actually understand what's happening.

Re: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?

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Post by johnfn »

indigodaddy wrote: post #81
johnfn wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you like exe.dev over other providers? Just curious, I haven't tried any yet but I am interested.

Up to 50 VMs with your shared resource pool for $20/mo, just all their unique features like http integrations and Shelley of course is just native, their exeuntu image has everything you need. Build with Shelley, no need to deploy it's already on the VM (tell Shelley to setup systemd to "productionize" it) with a my-vm.exe.xyz url with auto-https via exe's https proxy where you can keep it private to your exe login o…

Very neat, thank you for sharing :) will probably take it for a spin soon

Re: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?

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Post by mellosouls »

dippatel1994 wrote: post #92
mellosouls wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"these visual cards I came across" You came across them in your own repo and company that sells them?

Thanks for spotting it but if I tried other way would have kicked out, it was a genuine try to help but thanks @mellosouls I can understand.

I actually think they look an interesting/nice product that others might be interested in - best to be straight when pushing them.

Re: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?

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Post by Freedumbs »

Use whatever terminal you want.

Use claude or codex cli as architect.

Use !architect-model as actor.

Use local model for scout, extraction, etc.

Read recent AI research in arxiv.

Build a system that suits your workflow based on these principles: executable verification is king, independence is mandatory, a zero-failure report is a claim to be audited, not a result to be celebrated.

Now AI Just Works™

Re: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?

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Post by phildenhoff »

Charlieholtz wrote: post #68

I'm biased (I'm the creator) but I use Conductor every day. I've recently switched to Opus 4.8 (fast mode always on) as my default model but swap in GPT-5.5 quite a bit for reviewing Opus's work. My flow is something like: - Create a new workspace for a specific bug/feature - Ramble into the input box. I use a goose neck microphone and Spokenly (with Parakeet as the model ) for local speech-to-text - Hit enter! I don…

Hey -- we've loved using Conductor here at Digits. I've been using it since February and only recently swapped to using Orca for Remote SSH and perf improvements. Looking forward to your general release of Conductor Cloud!

I've been wondering, since you're building desktop software, how do you get AI to test your changes? Boot the whole app? Run the frontend/UI with a mock backend?

Re: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?

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Post by dv35z »

chrismorgan wrote: post #9

I feel it’s important that this should be mentioned at least once in a thread like this: none. I choose to program the old-fashioned way, and do not anticipate this changing in the foreseeable future, and believe that I’ll cope just fine in my niche; and if it becomes commercially unviable, well, I may no longer be interested in the field anyway. I won’t go into any details on why here, because that would make it too…

Would you be open to share your "why's"? I would appreciate hearing diverse perspectives on this, and it sounds like you have experience and learnings which would be beneficial for us (at least me) to hear out. Thank you.

Re: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?

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Post by dippatel1994 »

mellosouls wrote: post #103
dippatel1994 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for spotting it but if I tried other way would have kicked out, it was a genuine try to help but thanks @mellosouls I can understand.

I actually think they look an interesting/nice product that others might be interested in - best to be straight when pushing them.

Thank you so much @mellosouls, means a lot!

Re: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?

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Post by dv35z »

rootnod3 wrote: post #36

So, you don’t have any experience in it but want to run a workshop?

I find the best way to learn something is teach it. My philosophy with workshops & teaching is that we are all learners/students, on different parts of the paths (versus the idea that one person / the leader is the absolute authority). So the idea is to to create a learning environment (a time, place, and people), and help each other out.

A lot of us are doing this stuff solo anyway, and doing it socially is more fun and usually more effective (easily get unblocked).

Re: Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?

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Post by johntash »

bohdanstefaniuk wrote: post #98
sermakarevich wrote: post #25

I am using Spec Driven Development approach implemented as a Claude Code plugin since Feb for all mid + size tasks. The idea is to write detailed specs first using agent help doing research and interviewing, decompose the task into smaller subtasks, write detailed spec for each task, implement each task separately. You can restart the session after every step in the workflow and after each subtask implementation sinc…

Genuine question, I'm trying to adopt specs and AI DLC in my team so we can use it as an enhancement and improve our development and the biggest pain right now for us is managing all those md artifacts. I'm curious how do you manage them? Do you preserve them for the future or delete as soon as task was accomplished? If you're deleting those artifacts after job being done - do you summarize those specs into the Jira…

If you already use jira, maybe try putting the specs directly in the jira ticket? And/or in a confluence page?

I'm not sold on SDD yet, but part of that is because we already have decently detailed tickets and designs.

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