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thomasfromcdnjsyesterday at 12:29 AM2 repliesview on HN

shameless plug: I'm working on an open source project https://blocksai.dev/ to attempt to solve this. (and just added a note for me to add formal verification)

Elevator pitch: "Blocks is a semantic linter for human-AI collaboration. Define your domain in YAML, let anyone (humans or AI) write code freely, then validate for drift. Update the code or update the spec, up to human or agent."

(you can add traditional linters to the process if you want but not necessary)

The gist being you define a bunch of validators for a collection of modules you're building (with agentic coding) with a focus on qualifying semantic things;

- domain / business rules/measures

- branding

- data flow invariants — "user data never touches analytics without anonymization"

- accessibility

- anything you can think of

Then you just tell your agentic coder to use the cli tool before committing, so it keeps the code in line with your engineering/business/philosophical values.

(boring) example of it detecting if blog posts have humour in them, running in Claude Code -> https://imgur.com/diKDZ8W


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baqyesterday at 7:27 AM

Reminder YAML is a serialization format. IaC standardizing on it (hashicorp being an outlier) was a mistake. It’s a good compilation target, but please add a higher level language for whatever you’re doing.

akraussyesterday at 7:04 AM

Quick feedback: both the „learn more“ link at the very top and the „Explore all examples“ link lead to 404

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