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New comment by chachachainsaw in "Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools"

chachachainsaw — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:52:04 +0000

I mentioned on the main thread, but thought it would be topical here too. Claude Code ships LSP support but only if packaged within a plugin. So there are hoops you have to jump through to get it rather than getting it out of the box. But it might be long term more reliable than ad hoc fixes?

New comment by chachachainsaw in "Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools"

chachachainsaw — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:49:37 +0000

Claude Code ships LSP support, but only as part of a plugin. I think they’re currently the only vendor to fully support it.

New comment by chachachainsaw in "Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?"

chachachainsaw — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:37:25 +0000

One of the things I struggled with for a while was diffing the configs between tools when switching over and keeping them all straight. I recently built a free directory I’ve been hacking on to continually diff coding agents docs and source code to illustrate the differences.

Happy to share if you think it’ll add value.

New comment by chachachainsaw in "Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?"

chachachainsaw — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:32:32 +0000

Came here to say this. Output styles help a lot in cutting down the fluff.

New comment by chachachainsaw in "Ask HN: How do you guys stop coding agents from acting out of line?"

chachachainsaw — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:24:31 +0000

I use a lot of agent hooks to force deterministic guardrails in the moment for faster feedback loops, like someone else mentioned. Others like pre-commit hooks and CI checks are still great for things like enforcing conventional commits, linting, etc.

What framework do you use for generating migrations? I can help share an example of what it might look like to write a hook for it. Or even your top 3 pain points.

New comment by chachachainsaw in "Ask HN: How do you guys stop coding agents from acting out of line?"

chachachainsaw — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:15:04 +0000

Some of the configs are fairly similar, and if you bundle in a plugin they can be distributed without much ceremony. Something you can do for forcing cli migration generation is to write a pretool hook.

Here’s an example of shared hooks.

https://frontmatter.news/kinds/hook

This website also has markdown versions of pages and references source docs so you can point your agent to the page and ask it to crawl to the docs pages to reference the hook json definition.

New comment by chachachainsaw in "How I Use Claude Code"

chachachainsaw — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:52:43 +0000

Nice write-up!

I’ve moved a lot of my prose based guardrails into agent supported hooks, pre-commit hooks and CI checks. I’ve found this deterministic back pressure helps coding agents more consistently figure out for themselves when they’re doing things out of band.

New comment by chachachainsaw in "Ask HN: Are you still using AI code autocomplete?"

chachachainsaw — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:42:24 +0000

I’m fully on letting agents write all code, no longer doing autocomplete. I switch between Claude Code and Codex mostly, although found Cursor’s cloud agents a nicer experience.