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Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

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Post by patriceckhart »

sshine wrote: post #38
patriceckhart wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

zot is a coding agent harness. not a data vault, not a pacemaker, and not a life-support device in any medical sense. Ive been coding for almost 20 years, and for the past few with Go. Nobody would believe that a project of this scale or even a much smaller one could be pulled off, halfway stable, over a couple of days. Not even with a blueprint or two in hand. Thats why it matters, and its totally fair, to point out…

I get the joke, and I appreciate it. As someone with 20 years of professional coding experience who vibe-codes certain tools in my current stack, I really get it. But I'd still remove it from the front page, it just reads like you admit it sucks. Which vibe-coding a dev tool doesn't have to. Judging from the animation, you actually cared to test the TUI quite a lot. (I've been vibe-coding TUI components without makin…

Thanks for the tip. I might do that—though honestly, Im a sucker for jokes like this. And yeah, the TUI is literally 98% vibe coded.

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

#42

Post by patriceckhart »

sshine wrote: post #38
patriceckhart wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

zot is a coding agent harness. not a data vault, not a pacemaker, and not a life-support device in any medical sense. Ive been coding for almost 20 years, and for the past few with Go. Nobody would believe that a project of this scale or even a much smaller one could be pulled off, halfway stable, over a couple of days. Not even with a blueprint or two in hand. Thats why it matters, and its totally fair, to point out…

I get the joke, and I appreciate it. As someone with 20 years of professional coding experience who vibe-codes certain tools in my current stack, I really get it. But I'd still remove it from the front page, it just reads like you admit it sucks. Which vibe-coding a dev tool doesn't have to. Judging from the animation, you actually cared to test the TUI quite a lot. (I've been vibe-coding TUI components without makin…

btw, you can totally use zot's packages for your own TUI too.

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

#43

Post by patriceckhart »

hydra-f wrote: post #37
patriceckhart wrote: post #35

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pi is extensible at every turn. thats what makes it special. zot is more limited there.

Extensibility has a cost which affects all my earlier points. Pi is fine for testing things you might include in your harness, but that's where I would draw the line

You rocking your own harness? Public by any chance? If so, mind if I take a look?

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

#44

Post by arecsu »

patriceckhart wrote: post #41
sshine wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get the joke, and I appreciate it. As someone with 20 years of professional coding experience who vibe-codes certain tools in my current stack, I really get it. But I'd still remove it from the front page, it just reads like you admit it sucks. Which vibe-coding a dev tool doesn't have to. Judging from the animation, you actually cared to test the TUI quite a lot. (I've been vibe-coding TUI components without makin…

Thanks for the tip. I might do that—though honestly, Im a sucker for jokes like this. And yeah, the TUI is literally 98% vibe coded.

If it helps, I did totally get the joke and love when there are these bits of humanity and sarcasm, somehow lost in today's landscape, it used to be more frequent in the past. And I also get what you've described in the previous paragraph from just reading it. Might be that some people get it, some don't. Do what you feel best!

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

#45

Post by 0gs »

patriceckhart wrote: post #43
hydra-f wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Extensibility has a cost which affects all my earlier points. Pi is fine for testing things you might include in your harness, but that's where I would draw the line

You rocking your own harness? Public by any chance? If so, mind if I take a look?

i am somebody else but my Show HN got zero engagement so please feel free to look at mine: http://github.com/0gsd/enough n.b. not a coding harness. it's for writing. but extensibility is a big (perhaps too big) part of it. http://enough.support has some of the principles outlined.

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

#46

Post by hydra-f »

patriceckhart wrote: post #43
hydra-f wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Extensibility has a cost which affects all my earlier points. Pi is fine for testing things you might include in your harness, but that's where I would draw the line

You rocking your own harness? Public by any chance? If so, mind if I take a look?

Not yet. I am slowly gathering resources for it, mapping out the commands, toolset and the overall UX. As well as handling the whole project management part.

I decided to exercise a bit of patience to see what other people achieve through their harnesses first (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192383, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164287).

I've chosen Rust as the language and the late summer as a deadline. If a harness is too opinionated, I don't really see the point in pushing it on anyone. And mine, I'm building it for my own workflow. So there's that

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

#47

Post by patriceckhart »

hydra-f wrote: post #46
patriceckhart wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You rocking your own harness? Public by any chance? If so, mind if I take a look?

Not yet. I am slowly gathering resources for it, mapping out the commands, toolset and the overall UX. As well as handling the whole project management part. I decided to exercise a bit of patience to see what other people achieve through their harnesses first (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192383 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164287 ). I've chosen Rust as the language and the late summer as…

I get it. Ha, over in Zerostack I even got a shoutout with zot. :-)

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

#49

Post by dang »

Since this project hasn't had much attention, I replaced the submitted title ("Zot now supports Claude Opus 4.8") with that of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931161. I hope that's ok!

(I also merged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941645 from that thread into this one)

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