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#152
Mostly im using VSCode with claude code, i tried claude code directly before but when convo is too long i need to open new session. i tried codex also, its nice to have when im outside as its connected my mac mini, i also get codex to review claude code most of the time

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

#153

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…

Imm overwhelmed with a variety of SDD tools out there. Github spec kit, spec-kitty, symphony, GSD, this. How do people decide on the framework other than try them all. p.s. found this mind-boggling list of them all https://github.com/cameronsjo/spec-compare

I think any add-on SDD is diluting the context and should be using as much as possible anything that is built-in and not external skill. When Claude (or any other lm) begins to ignore the rules, ask it and it will tell you that having too much in context will make it go bad faster.

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

#160

At the moment I predominantly work with Python and hence PyCharm as the main IDE. However, I've built this plugin https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/31117-agent-cli to render agentic CLIs as an editor tab in PyCharm and also some notification hooks so I don't have to switch windows and it's easy to jump around the code while the agent is doing its work. Besides that I have a collection of custom skills (plan for JI…

Will try this out, I'm just running claude in terminal panes stacked on the right hand side. Cheers!
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