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turlockmiketoday at 2:40 PM11 repliesview on HN

I deleted vscode and replaced with a hyper personal dashboard that combines information from everywhere.

I have a news feed, work tab for managing issues/PRs, markdown editor with folders, calendar, AI powered buttons all over the place (I click a button, it does something interesting with Claude code I can't do programmatically).

Why don't I share it? Because it's highly personal, others would find it doesn't fit their own workflow.


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camdenreslinktoday at 2:49 PM

Technical people (which is by far the minority of people out there) building personal apps to scratch an itch is one thing.

But based on the hype (100x productivity!), there should be a deluge of high quality mobile apps, Saas offerings, etc. There is a huge profit incentive to create quality software at a low price.

Yet, the majority of new apps and services that I see are all AI ecosystem stuff. Wrappers around LLMs, or tools to use LLMs to create software. But I’m not really seeing the output of this process (net new software).

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sputknicktoday at 2:45 PM

This is probably my favorite gain from AI assisted coding: the bar for "who cares about this app" has dropped to a minimum of 1 to make sense. I recently built an app for grocery shopping that is specific to how and where I shop, would be useless to anyone other than my wife. Took me 20 minutes. This is the next frontier: I have a random manual process I do every week, I'll write an app that does it for me.

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headcanontoday at 2:58 PM

I've been getting close to that myself, I've been using VSCode + Claude Code as my "control plane" for a bunch of projects but the current interface is getting unwieldly. I've tried superset + conductor and those have some improvements but are opinionated towards a specific set of workflows.

I do think there would be value in sharing your setup at some point if you get around to it, I think a lot of builders are in the same boat and we're all trying to figure out what the right interface for this is (or at least right for us personally).

acessoproibidotoday at 2:44 PM

I would still be interested even if my personal workflow is different. These things can be very inspirational!

skyberrystoday at 2:43 PM

This sounds chaotic and fun.

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skydhashtoday at 2:46 PM

> I deleted vscode and replaced with a hyper personal dashboard that combines information from everywhere.

Emacs with Hyperbole[0]?

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/

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kylecazartoday at 2:46 PM

... how did that replace vscode?

Do you never open a code editor?

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Chris2048today at 2:45 PM

Wdym by "it does something interesting with Claude code I can't do programmatically"?

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EGregtoday at 2:48 PM

Well, I’m sharing it. If someone wants an early preview or to work w me on this, the calendly link is on the site:

https://safebots.ai

But it requires A LOT of work to make sure it is actually safe for people and organizations. And no, an .md file saying “PLEASE DONT PWN ME, KTHX” isn’t it at all. “Alignment” is only part of the equation.

If you’re not afraid to dive into rabbitholes, here is how it works: http://community.safebots.ai/t/layer-4-browser-extensions-pe...

tbesedatoday at 2:53 PM

Sorry, I'm not sure how this relates to the content of the article. Sounds like an interesting experience, but this is an analysis of the Python ecosystem pre+post ChatGPT.