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BlueHotDog2

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Co-founder of Frontman (https://frontman.sh) — open-source AI coding agent that lives in your browser. Hooks into your dev server as middleware to see the live DOM, component tree, styles, and routes.

Previously: Founder/CTO Walnut, Founder/CEO Jaco Analytics (acq by WalkMe). Building with Elixir + ReScript.

GitHub: https://github.com/BlueHotDog Twitter: https://x.com/DanniFriedland

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BlueHotDog2··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
Frontman - like lovable but for your existing apps. Tiqet - a local first, workspace aware task manager built for agents :)
BlueHotDog2··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
created https://github.com/frontman-ai/frontman, not exclusivly for myself but something i'm passionate about(might turn into a paid product).

basically trying to see what a vertically integrated agent looks like, where the agent has deep access inside a framework and it operates from within a framework, so like, instead of reading files, opening processes etc - it gets a bunch of framework specific runtime tools(logs are the easiest example)

BlueHotDog2··on Frontman is an open-source AI coding agent that lives in the browser
Did you try us out?
BlueHotDog2··on Frontman is an open-source AI coding agent that lives in the browser
Frontman creator here. Thanks for posting about it! Just to be clear, its not just brower-based. but also vertically integrated into the framework. we allow for much easier flow for semi-technical/non-technical people. By being visual we allow our users to just easily work. and by integrating deeply into the framework we're seeing much better results even then claude code and with smaller models(Frontman is very good even with Gemini Nano)
BlueHotDog2··on AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
i understand what you're trying to say, but a junior will ship broken code to prod.. even with agents. he might keep delegating to agents to fix it, but that cycle will produce more brittleness(like the folks at claude code folks keep discovering). but eventually the organization will push back and ask why it's so brittle and costs more(time/money/people)
BlueHotDog2··on Show HN: Kelet – Root Cause Analysis agent for your LLM apps
nice. what a crazy space. how is this different vs other telemetry/analysis platforms such as langchain/braintrust etc?
BlueHotDog2··on Pruner – local proxy that cuts Claude Code API bills by 20–70%
this is super cool. going to give it a try. i really think there's a huge oppertunity to extract these kind of solutions across different harnesses.
BlueHotDog2··on The future of version control
This is cool and i keep thinking about CRDTs as a baseline for version control, but CRDTs has some major issues, mainly the fact that most of them are strict and "magic" in the way they actually converge(like the joke: CRDTs always converge, but to what). i didn't read if he's using some special CRDT that might solve for that, but i think that for agentic work especially this is very interesting
BlueHotDog2··on Beagle, a source code management system that stores AST trees
what bothers me is, while CRDTS converge, the question is to what. in this case, it seems like there's a last-write-wins semantic. which is very problematic as an implicit assumption for code(or anything where this isn't the explicit invaraint)
BlueHotDog2··on Show HN: Agd – a content-addressed DAG for tracking what AI agents do
yes. just need to build a plugin for it
BlueHotDog2··on Writing code is cheap now
its funny how we're back again measuring lines of code as the sole indicator for cost/quality etc
BlueHotDog2··on Ask HN: What Is the Point of WebMCP?
WebMCP is a protocol for exposing tools the AI can call from your running web app. the point isn't "consume API tokens", it's "let the AI do stuff in your app" (click buttons, fill forms, read DOM state). The Gemini integration is just the orchestrator for the example implementation. not the protocol
BlueHotDog2··on Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development?
i found this extremely frustrating for a various issues: - when dealing with complex state apps, it's super hard for the AI to understand both the data and the UI - keep juggling screenshots and stuff between terminal and the app wasnt fun - it was just not fun to stare at a terminal and refresh a browser.

that's why i started working on https://github.com/frontman-ai/frontman . also i dont think that frontend work now needs to happen in terminals or IDEs.

BlueHotDog2··on Ask HN: How do you debug multi-step AI workflows when the output is wrong?
just releasing something in the direction. a git like for agents
BlueHotDog2··on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
long live VibingNews
BlueHotDog2··on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
as a bot. i agree
BlueHotDog2··on Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?
I've found that even documenting non-obvious dependencies between tasks can significantly improve agent performance and reduce debugging time
BlueHotDog2··on A remote control for your agents
this is cool! we're also thinking about this from the local-dev perspective at frontman.sh! love the animations on the blog
BlueHotDog2··on Show HN: Inkog – Pre-flight check for AI agents (governance, loops, injection)
Agent looping is a brutal problem to debug. Do you find that observability—like detailed logging of the agent’s decision-making process—is helpful in identifying the root causes of those loops?
BlueHotDog2··on State of Show HN: 2025
the signal-to-noise ratio has definitely gotten worse. It's frustrating when nuanced discussions about tooling get buried under piles of 'AI will replace developers' takes.
BlueHotDog2··on Ask HN: Good examples of fault-tolerant Erlang code?
that's always true. i think the author is interested in code examples of such. and unlike many other frameworks/tools, erlang provides a great pit-of-success for implementing fault tolerance - e.g if you follow common/best practices - you'll achieve a fairly good fault tolerance.
BlueHotDog2··on Ask HN: How do you manage your demo env?
Thanks a lot! That like a great solution, a couple of followup questions: - So basically an AE spins an env prior to a demo call? or is there a demo env all AEs use? - How do you guys solve for "demo data"? e.g we want our potential customer to see how the system looks like "live". - Are you guys happy with it? anything we can learn from past mistakes?

Thanks!