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

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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…

Thanks man, I was looking for something like this for a while!

You’re welcome

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

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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 looked at most of those, including kiro and tessl. Was early user of GSD when it was suitable for mid+ size projects. Over time GSD grown into beast which is suitable for huge + size projects only producing gigantic specs and burning too many tokens for most of the tasks. So I decided to created my own, with set of steps I need and specs I want.

After few presentations of sddw to different companies, most important conclusion was that the ssd plugin should be customizable. It should fit the typical size of tasks/features you are working on, specs should fit your requirements, set of steps can be different.

So I created claude code workflow (ccw) which allows to compile custom version of workflow on top of sdd approach: https://github.com/sermakarevich/ccw

After making few presentations of sddw to different companies,

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

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It changes every 2 weeks.

right it now it is oh-my-pi cli with all models (mostly switching between sonnet—4.6 and Deepseek V4 Pro).

Before it was codewhale with Deepseek V4 Pro/Flash

Before it was kimi-k2.6

Before it was opencode

Before it was Claude

Before it was codex

Before it was trivial github copilot auto completion in emacs.

Before it was web searches and ChatGPT web UI.

Mostly for C, but also C++, perl and python. Python success being the worst by far.

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

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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…

I do the same, and faced the issue that claude/codex loose context when doing subtasks (and subagent don't have plan mode).

So I've built Agentbox to be able to launch from claude/codex multiple VMs with claude/codex (can also mix). The parent agent watch for prompts and questions, enforce /review, /simplify, that the sub agents file a PR and wait for bugbot comments etc.

This way the parent agent running in a /goal don't loose context, enforce a good workflow, manage the backlog and parallelize/merge back the work on the main repo

https://github.com/madarco/agentbox MIT license

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