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New comment by hudsongr in "Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools"

hudsongr — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:44:59 +0000

We assume LLMs can always be fooled, so the judge is just one step of the verification process. The deterministic layers, per-tool db roles, read-only-by-default integrations, query timeouts, are the ones an admin can configure. The judge's rules aren't exposed to admins today. I like your idea of letting admins add their own rules or knowledge to the judge, we should add that.

New comment by hudsongr in "Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools"

hudsongr — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:07:44 +0000

Yes, we support Snowflake and ClickHouse today. And we're happy to integrate more, just say the word :)

New comment by hudsongr in "Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools"

hudsongr — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:47:41 +0000

Thank you! Yes, you can share it externally if it isn't connected to external data sources.

New comment by hudsongr in "Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools"

hudsongr — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:22:37 +0000

Thanks! We believe the building aspect is already commoditized and we're experimenting with leaning into this with BYOA (bring-your-own-agent). Our bet is that the labs will stay focused on the model and won't do the more unglamorous governed deployment layer needs (credential scoping, per-tool db, audit, etc), but time will tell.

New comment by hudsongr in "Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools"

hudsongr — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:16:47 +0000

Thanks! We've actually have been experimenting with the config generation approach as well. One tradeoff we noticed was it turns the system into more of an app builder where the ceiling of what you can do is lower compared to a coding agent. But it's much faster than codegen. How dynamic have you found Lowdefy compared to codegen?

New comment by hudsongr in "Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools"

hudsongr — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:40:29 +0000

Thanks! Agree that for one-off questions, chat is the right interface. We’ve found apps win when the workflow is repeated across a team and they almost become “templates” that seed ideas for other coworkers.

New comment by hudsongr in "Show HN: Mdarena – Benchmark your Claude.md against your own PRs"

hudsongr — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:39:16 +0000

Hey! I built this because everyone's writing CLAUDE.md files now but nobody knows if theirs actually works. The research is contradictory too, one paper says they hurt performance, another says they help. So I made a tool that just measures it on your own repo using your own PRs and your own test suite.

Turns out it's not often you can point to a single markdown file and say "this made the agent 27% better at resolving real tasks." That's what we saw on our production monorepo. I imagine this as a way for teams to actually make their agents write better code instead of guessing.