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sycdanon Show HN: Nosedive – plan and drive work in all your repos from one notes repo

Author here. Been in software for 20 years, and the last two have been the most insane...

I now have a second job of verifying the janky software that agents built for me. And I'm paying two subscriptions for the privilege.

The context-switching and constantly having to reverse-engineer why agents did what they did was getting too exhausting, so I built a thing about it.

Now I plan my work in small vertical slices up front and store all the necessary context in a plain-text knowledge base repo, with links so agents can discover what they need.

Then I can cold-start an agent session with a prompt generated by my tool, so the agent has a clear brief and can sue the tool to write its progress back to the kb.

sycdanon Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into

I use ack (https://beyondgrep.com/) many times per day, and it has saved me a great deal of time. That said, if you use IDEs (I don't), it may be somewhat redundant.

sycdanon Ask HN: Do you use an old or 'unfashionable' programming language?

I use VBA for automating the production of pharmaceutical analytics reports, and have for the past 8 years. It is horrible in so many ways, but as far as I've found has the best support for manipulating the MS Office DOM, which is important because all the pharma reps use Excel/PowerPoint for everything and tend to have very specific nit-picky needs regarding their custom reports.