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Re: Launch HN: Codebuff (YC F24) – CLI tool that writes code for you

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Oh, it was a tool call I originally implemented so that Codebuff could look up the probabilities of markets to help it answer user questions. I thought it would be fun if you asked it about the chance of the election or maybe something about AI capabilities, it could back up the answer by citing a prediction market.

Why not simply remove that dependency now?

Cruft that built up over time But you make a good point, I'll write a ticket to remove it soon.

Re: Launch HN: Codebuff (YC F24) – CLI tool that writes code for you

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been using cline extension in vscode (which can execute commands and look at the output on terminal) and it's an incredibly adept sysadmin, cloud architect and data engineer. I like that cline lets you approve/decline execution requests and you can run it without sending the output which is safer from a data perspective.

It's cool to have this natively on the remote system though. I think a safer approach would be to compile a small binary locally that is multi-platform, and which has the command plus the capture of output to relay back, and transmit that over ssh for execution (like how MGMT config management compiles golang to static binary and sends it over to the remote node vs having to have mgmt and all it's deps installed on every system it's managing).

Could be low lift vs having a package, all it's dependencies and credentials running on the target system.

Re: Launch HN: Codebuff (YC F24) – CLI tool that writes code for you

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been using cline extension in vscode (which can execute commands and look at the output on terminal) and it's an incredibly adept sysadmin, cloud architect and data engineer. I like that cline lets you approve/decline execution requests and you can run it without sending the output which is safer from a data perspective. It's cool to have this natively on the remote system though. I think a safer approach would be to…

Are you an adept sysadmin, cloud architect, and/or data engineer?

It’s a weird catch-22 giving praise like that to LLMs.

If you are, then you might be able to intuit and fill in the gaps left my the LLM and not even know it.

And if you’re not, then how could you judge?

Not really much to do with that you were saying, really, just a thought I had.

Re: Launch HN: Codebuff (YC F24) – CLI tool that writes code for you

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Your website has a serious issue. Trying to play the YouTube video makes the page slow down to a crawl, even in 1080p, while playing it on YouTube directly has no issue, even in 4K. On the project itself, I don't really find it exciting at all, I'm sorry. It's just another wrapper for a 3rd party model, and the fact that you can 1) describe the entire workflow in 3 paragraphs, and 2) built it and launched it in aroun…

> Your website has a serious issue.

I was thinking the same. My (admittedly old-ish) 2070 Super runs at 25-30% just looking at the landing page. Seems a bit crazy for a basic web page. I'm guessing it's the background animation.

Re: Launch HN: Codebuff (YC F24) – CLI tool that writes code for you

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The demos I see for these types of tools are always some toy project and doesn't reflect day to day work I do at all. Do you have any example PRs on larger more complex projects that have been written with codebuff and how much of that was human interactive? The real problem I want someone to solve is helping me with the real niche/challenging portion of a PR, ex: new tiptap extension that can do notebook code eval,…

Great question – we struggled for a long time to put our demo together precisely for this reason. Codebuff is so useful in a practical setting, but we can't bore the audience with a ton of background on a codebase when we do demos, so we have to pick a toy project. Maybe in the future, we could start our demo with a half-built project? Hopefully the demo on our homepage shows a little bit more of your day-to-day work…

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Re: Launch HN: Codebuff (YC F24) – CLI tool that writes code for you

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any sandbox-like restrictions in place to ensure that commands are limited to only touching the project folder not any other places in the system?

We always reset the directory back to the project directory on each command, so that helps. But we're open to adding more restrictions so that it can't for example run `cd /usr && rm -rf .`

How about executing commands in a VM (perhaps Firecracker)?
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