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Show HN: P0 – Yes, AI can ship complex features into real codebases

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Re: Show HN: P0 – Yes, AI can ship complex features into real codebases

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Post by TomGrowthHub »

The real unlock here isnt the multi-agent orchestration, its the standards layer. Every team ive seen try to scale AI coding hits the same wall: Claude is brilliant until it isnt, and it isnt brilliant when it doesnt know your patterns. A single CLAUDE.md ages fast and never captures the insitutional stuff that lives in senior engineers heads. The 15 minute intervew to generate repo standards is the part id want to stress-test. Thats the moat, if it holds up. How does it handle standars drift as the codebase evolves? Does the agent actively flag when new PRs diverge from documented patters, or is it purely generation-side?

Re: Show HN: P0 – Yes, AI can ship complex features into real codebases

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Post by arndt »

richardfeynman wrote: post #35

Initial impression is that it looks cool. $100 / month is too pricey for hackers. I know the infra costs are high, but still.

Thank you, we appreciate it. We're here for this kind of feedback!

Our thinking is that you wouldn't use p0 if you are vibe coding a side project, our focus is on folks who need to ship meaty features in existing codebases where the value we generate far outweighs the $100/month.

We debated offering a free tier, but that would have meant offering it with limited functionality, and that would take away from the experience in too fundamental of a way. We want people to have the whole thing.

You can try it for free for 14 days, and we are not locking anything in. Everything lives on your machine and you could move it into your own harness or workflow.

Re: Show HN: P0 – Yes, AI can ship complex features into real codebases

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Post by arndt »

TomGrowthHub wrote: post #34

The real unlock here isnt the multi-agent orchestration, its the standards layer. Every team ive seen try to scale AI coding hits the same wall: Claude is brilliant until it isnt, and it isnt brilliant when it doesnt know your patterns. A single CLAUDE.md ages fast and never captures the insitutional stuff that lives in senior engineers heads. The 15 minute intervew to generate repo standards is the part id want to s…

When you build features with p0, it suggests keeping the standards updated. We plan to tie this more into git hooks so that we can do this on code merges and not rely on it client side.

The standards are synced across the team but you need to use p0 to make full use of them, or at least re-import them into a custom harness.

Slightly disagree on the orchestration. It's not unusual for AI native solo devs to have some self-made harness, but most teams don't have that, and don't have the time to make one. Claude Code etc. only ships the primitives. With p0 you get one out of the box that we have been and keep tweaking.

Re: Show HN: P0 – Yes, AI can ship complex features into real codebases

#39

Post by DrHarry94 »

Sounds great! I heard about the product two weeks ago, but unfortunately didn't have enough information. This week, I received a request to build an interface as a non-technical person. I'm definitely going to try it with purple!

If the implementation is successful, I'll get paid. Wish me luck! :)

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