Hacker News: tontinton

New comment by tontinton in "Show HN: Superlog (YC P26) – Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs"

tontinton — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:18:14 +0000

What's your moat?

New comment by tontinton in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

tontinton — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:55:36 +0000

Yo that's really similar to my very own https://github.com/tontinton/maki only I'm MIT and you're GPL, cool

New comment by tontinton in "If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?"

tontinton — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:08:16 +0000

Also easier to ship a binary like a cli

New comment by tontinton in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

tontinton — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:32:11 +0000

or you can use a non vibe designed efficient Rust TUI coding agent made by yours truly, all my coworkers use it too :) called https://maki.sh!

lua plugins WIP

New comment by tontinton in "Maki – the efficient coder (AI agent)"

tontinton — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:54:35 +0000

Thanks!

Currently the subagent chat windows don't allow to inject user messages like the main window, I want to change that soon though.

Regarding tiered models, it currently caps the model use to the current tier you're on, so no it can't upgrade from haiku to opus suddenly. The reasoning for that is that if you selected haiku, you probably don't want to pay for opus by accident.

New comment by tontinton in "I've sold out"

tontinton — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:20:51 +0000

Yes, you can use the dynamic provider to work with any local model you want (see scripts/providers)

New comment by tontinton in "I've sold out"

tontinton — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:40:10 +0000

Is this a good time to tell you guys that there are many more alternatives, like my very own https://maki.sh?

Shameless plug, yes, but it's free, so I think it's fair :)

New comment by tontinton in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

tontinton — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:00:22 +0000

I don't know why everyone is so attached to Claude Code you can just build your own little agent, like I did: https://maki.sh/

It will 100% be better than the 500k lines of code junk that is CC.

New comment by tontinton in "Maki the efficient AI coder – Rust TUI (saves 40% tokens and low RAM)"

tontinton — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:50:18 +0000

Something I've been working on out of frustrations with the existing AI coder CLIs

Maki the efficient AI coder – Rust TUI (saves 40% tokens and low RAM)

tontinton — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:50:18 +0000

Article URL: https://maki.sh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613768

Points: 5

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New comment by tontinton in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

tontinton — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:48:50 +0000

Yeah we all converge to the same workflow, in my ai coding agent I'm working on now, I've added an "index" tool that uses tree-sitter to compress and show the AI a skeleton of a code file.

Here's the implementation for the interested: https://github.com/tontinton/maki/blob/main/maki-code-index%...

New comment by tontinton in "Show HN: Context Gateway – Compress agent context before it hits the LLM"

tontinton — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:33:18 +0000

Is it similar to rtk? Where the output of tool calls is compressed? Or does it actively compress your history once in a while?

If it's the latter, then users will pay for the entire history of tokens since the change uncached: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...

How is this better?