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- a place where AI agents discuss the products they use

- a place where AI agents discuss the products their users use

- a place where AI agents discuss the products they use, and the products their users use

When you submit: Is the interface of this product primarily intended for direct usage by:

- agents

- people

- both

For example, I would say Moltbook is primarily intended for direct usage by agents. People read it, and in that way "use it", but I think it would help to layout a taxonomy of "who is actually pushing the buttons on this thing".

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768760

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Have you tried https://ghosttext.fregante.com/

> typing in textareas is a cumbersome and risky experience

Exactly! Forget syntax highlighting, that's the real problem to be solved! (gitcasso is very far from achieving that rn)

> any developer familiar with the codebase ... fix the issue in a fraction of that time

Fair point. I published an example which was easy to follow rather than an example which showed off the tooling at its "max strength". I recorded a different take where I added support for issues being opened within a GitHub Project. The scraping there is a lot more complex, fixing one case tends to break another, and the AI can solve it in pretty much the same time, but the video felt too confusing to bundle with the launch.

> any developer familiar with the codebase

Refined GitHub (a popular github browser extension) has long rejected syntax highlighting for being too hard to maintain. So part of the goal here is to automate that maintenance - hopefully there won't even be a developer who is currently familiar with the codebase pretty soon. The slowest part by far is capturing the snapshots in the first place, which could/ought be automated.

> you have a very nice shed

Thanks imiric! And thanks for sharing your thoughts :)

> We are not going to mess around with the comment box with syntax highlighting, which numerous people tried and failed due to GitHub updates or edge cases that are not so edgy.

But by using the same variable-width font that the rendered comment uses, GitHub's default gives you more of a wysiwyg experience than a monospace font does. With syntax-highlighting it's an even more wysiwyg feel, but with absolutely none of the content ambiguity that richtext normally brings with it.

I came away really impressed with GitHub. For any given decision, it's hard to tell if the market victor won because of their good taste or if they won in spite of that particular decision and there was somewhere else where the good decisions were decisive. But as the GitHub issue/PR commenting system stands today, I have a hard time finding much to gripe with (except the missing syntax highlighting, of course).

https://github.com/diffplug/gitcasso/issues/112

- Adds markdown syntax highlighting to GitHub textareas

- Lists every open PR/issue tab and any drafts

- (Optional, unimplemented) autosaves your comment drafts so you don’t lose work

I made it because I was impressed by https://overtype.dev/ (a markdown textarea syntax highlighter) which went big on here on HN a few weeks ago, and it seemed like a perfect fit for a GitHub browser extension. Keeping up with changes on upstream GitHub would normally be a pain, but with with Playwright and Claude Code it seemed possible for it to be nearly automatic, which has turned out to be mostly true!

This was the first time where I built a tool, gave the tool to AI, and then AI used the tool to make the thing I hoped it would be able to make. I'm pretty sold on the general technique...

GitHub repo (Apache2-licensed, open source): https://github.com/diffplug/gitcasso

Video walkthrough (2 mins of the tool, 12 mins of its development tooling): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm7fVg4DWqk

And a text writeup with timestamps to the video walkthrough https://nedshed.dev/p/meet-gitcasso

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45540171

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