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Re: Show HN: Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality

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> But if you want to uphold traditional engineering discipline while also shipping 20 PRs a day, then this is the environment for you. It seems like an interesting tool, curious about trying it out once it's been out for a while. But who in holy hell, with AI assistance or not, could possibly "ship" (merged?) 20 PRs a day and still know what they're doing? You talk a lot about quality and making sure to avoid slop, b…

Most days I don't ship 20 PRs. But I think my record is 30. Three things made that possible. The first, obviously, is having Command Center. The second is that a lot of those were fixes or UX improvements under 100 lines. The third is, no joke, not sleeping. I've had quite a few 20+ hour days in the last 6 months. Some of that is work pressure, but also I've considered getting evaluated for a broken circadian rhythm.…

Thanks for explaining, I still have my doubts about the actual quality, but I'm also I'm also very open to be proven wrong! It has happened before, bound to happen again at some point or another :)

> but also I've considered getting evaluated for a broken circadian rhythm.

Heh, personally I fixed this by just adopting the sleep cycle my body wants of going to bed at 04:00/05:00 and going up at 11:00/12:00, life is much better now when I just accept it. One approach if your life can allow it :)

> If you're serious, I'll be happy to get on a call and show you.

Very much so, obviously prefer something async if possible, just a .patch file could suffice I suppose, but could do a call to have a look if that's the only way :) Reach out to my email from my profile and we can coordinate :)

Re: Show HN: Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality

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I do think this style of working is where software engineering work is heading. This style is essentially exactly what my workflow is today using _insert agent harness here_ + plannotator[0]. Linear also recently rolled out something very similar for reviews[1]. The working style of spec driven dev, following by fast code reviews using tools like plannotator/linear/command center seems to be where we are headed, and more more tools like it are popping up nowadays.

0: https://plannotator.ai/

1: https://linear.app/docs/diffs

Re: Show HN: Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality

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post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most days I don't ship 20 PRs. But I think my record is 30. Three things made that possible. The first, obviously, is having Command Center. The second is that a lot of those were fixes or UX improvements under 100 lines. The third is, no joke, not sleeping. I've had quite a few 20+ hour days in the last 6 months. Some of that is work pressure, but also I've considered getting evaluated for a broken circadian rhythm.…

Thanks for explaining, I still have my doubts about the actual quality, but I'm also I'm also very open to be proven wrong! It has happened before, bound to happen again at some point or another :) > but also I've considered getting evaluated for a broken circadian rhythm. Heh, personally I fixed this by just adopting the sleep cycle my body wants of going to bed at 04:00/05:00 and going up at 11:00/12:00, life is mu…

> Heh, personally I fixed this by just adopting the sleep cycle my body wants of going to bed at 04:00/05:00 and going up at 11:00/12:00, life is much better now when I just accept it. One approach if your life can allow it :)

That was my life in my mid-late 20's.

But as I've gotten older, my sleep schedule has only gotten more messed up. Now I consider it a victory if I manage to go to sleep before the dawn.

> Very much so, obviously prefer something async if possible, just a .patch file could suffice I suppose, but could do a call to have a look if that's the only way :) Reach out to my email from my profile and we can coordinate :)

Cool, let's chat async then. Contacting you now.

Re: Show HN: Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality

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Seems like an interesting idea, any tips for how a junior dev can get the most out of using the app with the goal of programming skills growth?

There's a few obvious suggestions -- discuss design tradeoffs with the AI extensively, make sure you understand all your code, and understand the refactorings.

I think using Command Center can lead to much better skills growth than any other agentic coding environment. Which is a lot like saying that a shrubbery is much taller than grass, when you need your skills to grow into a tree.

This is a problem that no-one has solved. I think we might have it solved by the end of the year (we've been doing deals with a lot of universities and are being pulled in that direction),

The things humans can offer over AIs: product sense, greater context, taste. Of these, taste (really: software architecture and design) is the one that's most fundamentally about software engineering skill. I wrote recently about this at https://self-service.mirdin.com/software-design-in-the-age-o...

The big problem: it's very hard to develop enough taste to be a general without actually being in the trenches. This goes for pretty much any field, including literal war.

I've trained about 500 software engineers. But all of them were working professionals, who would take the training back on the job each week and see all the lessons playing out in their own and their coworker's code. If they were just chatting with AI and never having to get halfway through a big feature only to realize that the design was just fundamentally flawed, rate of growth would probably be much slower.

In short: lots you can do to grow faster than someone who just stares at the Claude CLI all day and never opens an editor. But how to become actually good while still doing AI coding? Unsolved problem.

Re: Show HN: Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality

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post #34

I do think this style of working is where software engineering work is heading. This style is essentially exactly what my workflow is today using _insert agent harness here_ + plannotator[0]. Linear also recently rolled out something very similar for reviews[1]. The working style of spec driven dev, following by fast code reviews using tools like plannotator/linear/command center seems to be where we are headed, and…

plannotator's made me actually want to read my agents' plans. Great product. I've been liking the review as well.

Re: Show HN: Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality

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It's interesting how AI is making software development dramatically faster, but quality is becoming an even bigger differentiator. Building is no longer the bottleneck for many founders. Knowing what to build and maintaining quality are becoming more important.

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