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Software engineer working on various platforms, usually around .NET / JS ecosystems, Web Apps, Native, APIs, DBs, things in the middle and bits on the side.

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www.agentkanban.io 2mo ago

Show HN: AgentKanban for VS Code – A task board with agent harness integration

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blog.asnotes.io 3mo ago

Show HN: As Notes – A Static Site Generator in Your Markdown Knowledgebase

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www.appsoftware.com 4mo ago

You Need Deterministic Gates for Probabilistic AI Agents

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www.appsoftware.com 4mo ago

Show HN: Fixing Agent / LLM Context Decay in VS Code with Git Worktrees

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www.appsoftware.com 4mo ago

Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer

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substack.com 1y ago

Why LLMs and AI Agents Won't Remove the Need for Software Engineers

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journals.appsoftware.com 3y ago

Search engines already feel like second choice to GPT-4

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journals.appsoftware.com 3y ago

Microservices: Think Hard Before You Jump In

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journals.appsoftware.com 3y ago

Dev to BaTest: A Prediction for the Evolution of the Dev Role Alongside AI

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journals.appsoftware.com 3y ago

GDPR Compliant Web Analytics Using Fathom

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pm.stackexchange.com 3y ago

How do you estimate for a 're-build' in software?

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garethbrown.net 4y ago

Hackers, Painters and Practices for Software as a Creative Process

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garethbrown.net 4y ago

Show HN: Maintaining a Blog with Jekyll, GitHub Pages and GitHub Codespaces

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garethbrown.net 4y ago

Show HN: Managing Code Snippets Using Logseq

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github.com 4y ago

Show HN: Node script for recursive shell format variable replace in templates

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Thanks, those don't deterministically prevent the main loop from using tools thought, unless I'm wrong that's just prompting the main agent on when to use specialized sub agents

Thank you for your feedback - I have it working on iPadOS 26.5 (Chrome and Safari). The browser auto-play policy does require some interaction with the page before it will play (so the first key press is often mute, but should sound after). There is a button on the control bar to enable sound explicitly. I will look for more instances (not to ask the really obvious question, but do you have sound turned up or a bluetooth connection you're not aware of by any chance?). Thanks again

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Prior to this release, Agent Kanban - the online task board with agent harness integration for task management and context capture worked primarily with Github Copilot. With this release, the extension now supports Claude Code (the VS Code extension or TUI)

A music theory learning tool. I'm building bits as I learn new areas - https://www.asmusictheory.com

I also built a kanban board with agent integration and context management, with a vs code extension to go with it (also helps with git worktrees too): https://www.agentkanban.io

There is AS Notes - an Obsidian / Logseq / Roam alternative for use a s a VS code extension (is designed for use behind corporate firewalls, git friendly): https://www.asnotes.io

Also NumeroMoney: https://www.numeromoney.com - For personal finance spending analysis and budgeting.

AI has been a great 'exoskeleton' for me. I fortunately had some good infrastructure and solid application base templates from before AI 'got gud' and so building on these has been the best of both worlds - a solid base and improved speed of development.

The UK is still the 5th biggest economy in the world. Public infrastructure feels like it's under huge strain however, and there is also a big problem with inequality, which seems to be changing under Labour, albeit slowly.

AI is beat thought of as an exoskeleton, you'll be at a huge advantage if you learn how to use it properly, and you will, unfortunately fall behind if you don't. I still think we're going to need people who can reason about code, and the amount of code to reason about is exploding in volume. Think of it as doctors having access to better drugs and techniques - they can can cure more illness, but the bar and expectation of what they can do will just raise. And doctors are still well paid, because what they do is important and needs doing well.

I've wondered this too - exactly how are our inputs and outputs useful as training data? So I asked Gemini. Apparently using negative sentiment in user or llm responses can serve as RLHF, and the human prompts can also serve as useful data for what problems the llms need to be able to solve. There's also that smaller models can train on and improve from data from larger models but that's less relevant when not switching models in context.

You can just say it 2 months ago

A human iteratively (sometimes painstakingly) shapes and reshapes their creation until it sufficiently matches what’s in their mind’s eye. The odd thing about generative AI is that it can produce substantial form with minimally applied intent.

To add - I think attention is the scarce resource on both ends. Was this creation important enough to give it my full attention (i.e. do it my self). Is this creation important enough for the user to use / consume (i.e without an agent interacting with it on our behalf or summarising)

There's a few apps out there that facilitate handing off to agents from kanban boards. I needed something more 'human in the loop', handing off to an agent without good visibility of the change set and opportunity to steer doesn't work for me. https://www.agentkanban.io links a taskboard with github copilot chat in vs code via our extension so we have the benefit of task management and context capture from the chat to the tasks. This gives us all the features of a top harness (vs code) and the task / project management features at the same time.

I tried antigravity when it was first released, I didn't see an advantage over vscode, which it's forked from, and there were a few extensions I used that aren't supported. I've been a huge fan of copilot in vscode, the tight integration beats the TUI harnesses, and I've built some tooling around it (https://www.agentkanban.io) so I've got an integrated task board, context capture on the board and git worktree management for parallel tasks)

I won't be able to use their AI results if they are, personally. If I ask the question "what is the best tool for doing x" and I can't trust that the answer is going to be the truth according to all available information, then the AI is useless or worse, misleading. If google is unbiased, and only highlights paid advertiser mentions, no one will pay. I'd only accept this if it was a clear separation of LLM response and ads in a sidebar or something similar. Other people may not care. Many happily read politically affiliated news knowing that their opinions and actions may be influenced by a media source.

The licence method we went with for AS Notes (https://www.asnotes.io - a wikilinks and markdown based notes / docs / blog extension for VS code) was to make the client (extension) fully opensource with a public / private cryptographic licence key model, with a couple of pro gated features. I think an opensource product is very important for a notes product, where the implications of loosing access to a tool are huge for users that invest a lot of time in a knowledge base.

Congratulations on making it tonthe front page. I think your app looks like a brilliant notes app implementation, and there's obviously demand. When I launched https://www.asnotes.io earlier this year (An extension that turns VS Code in to an Obsidian like PKMS) it made the number 4 spot. It's clearly something that people see as important and draws a lot of opinions. I hope your project does well.

I think there is a special value in open source when it comes to a personal knowlege base. We invest so much time in it, and we need to know that it's not going to be taken away from us, or made unaffordable. I made https://www.asnotes.io (basically obsidian with markdown and nested wikilinking in a VS Code extension), because I wanted and thought others would want something that is a) open source and b) version control friendly so we don't even have to rely on a sync server being there in the future.

Similar to this, but NixOS. Having AI to help me through made this so much easier. I was sold on the idea of an 'IaC' config based machine, after a general push to move all of my processes towards full GitOps. Windows had been pretty good to me (running 4 years on the same laptop install), but it had started overheating with fans sounding like a vacuum cleaner and it was time to start over. The difference with NixOS is that sure there are issues and preferences to work through, but when I fix them, they get committed in config, and thats an investment in time rather than something that will be right until next time I have to do it. I was able to reproduce, and rebuild on a separate machine with minimal hassle (it's good to go through this process to be sure you've got it right) and that really was amazing to see. SSH keys, SMB share, monitor configurations, themes, apps, utilities - a fully set up dev machine, everything is just there. I've been planning changes on a Copilot integrated taskboard I built (https://www.agentkanban.io) and then handing them off to the agent, reviewing the changes in the VS Code git client and then apply, commit. Being able to see the number of commits makes me realise how much I was doing manually, every time I set up a new machine.