CodingReplying on Hacker News to a claim that language models are bad at games, the commenter TeMPOraL described reviving a 1997 PC game from his childhood with Claude Code. Within roughly 30 m…
CodingChandler Nguyen moved his 17 year old WordPress blog, which ran on PHP and MySQL on a cloud VM, to Next.js in four days with Claude Code and the community Superpowers plugin. The plugin f…
CodingStephen Toub describes how the GitHub Copilot agent runtime, which backs the Copilot CLI, app and SDK, was rewritten from TypeScript to Rust mostly by agents and mainly by one developer o…
CodingMaurice Heumann and a few volunteers ran up to 16 Claude Code and Codex agents for three months to rebuild an old first-person shooter as readable, compilable C++. Agents used a disassemb…
CodingTo keep code aligned with what was actually asked for, a developer periodically has an agent re-read every user message in the project and write a fresh statement of intent, then checks t…
CodingA payment job ran twice after a worker died before it acknowledged the message, and 37 customers were charged two times. The engineer then spent two weeks checking all 140 Celery jobs in…
CodingA Claude Code user keeps tasks in a YAML todo file managed by a small Python script, and added a task-manager sub-agent with just two actions: fetch the next task and mark a task complete…
CodingOne developer spent 15 days running two coding agents side by side on one project. Claude Code handled the frontend and Codex handled the backend. Both worked in a shared space called Tut…
CodingLinus Torvalds published a branch in which Claude Code, under his direction, wrote a Linux patch series that lets many threads read small parts of the same file from the page cache withou…
CodingPrime Intellect had its own coding agent, Prime Agent, rewrite itself from TypeScript into Rust over two weeks, using more than 2,000 sub-agents. People spent their time on tests, not cod…
CodingCockroach Labs engineers Adam Storm and Rafi Shamim set up their coding agents like the staff of a teaching hospital. Each GitHub issue is a patient. A triage agent admits it, a fellow pl…
CodingOne developer settles product behaviour and technical approach up front, writes it into a spec, and hands it to a long-running implementation engine. After each build, automated checks ru…
CodingA developer only lets Cursor's agent mode loose on small, well-bounded work such as third-party integrations, background jobs, notifications and activity tracking. They first review an im…
CodingA solo builder used Replit Agent over roughly ten days to finally make an AI app they had been putting off. The agent scaffolded the app, wired the backend, created the database tables, d…
CodingOne developer opens each task in Devin's command-line tool on their own machine, lets it explore the repository until it understands the codebase, and then uses the /handoff command to mo…
CodingAt Anthropic, most of the code in Claude Code is now written by Claude itself, and the team changed how it reviews code to match. Before a PR exists, Claude runs tests or builds to prove…
CodingRather than adopting an orchestration framework, one developer wires up Claude Code's built-in hook system: 84 hooks across 15 event types, all plain files. Their key fix was concurrency:…
CodingA developer connected ChatGPT to a local Codex install through MCP-style file access and added a thin workflow layer: ChatGPT handles planning and reviewing results, while Codex does the…