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By tedivm 2026-01-1019:22 When I used to play Screeps[1], a MMO strategy game where you programmed to control your units and buildings, a group of us setup a player that was managed in this exact way called Quorum[2].
If anyone wants to run their own project in this way I open sourced the code to do so under the GitConsensus[3] project. There's a Github App (which may not still work, but if there's interest I'll restart it) and a "run it yourself" python library and CLI you can run from Github Actions[4].
2. https://github.com/ScreepsQuorum/screeps-quorum
I don't get the title. Do I understand correctly this is basically "Twitch plays Github" without Twitch?
I'd expect even more chaos, let an LLM build the features and people vote.
By stavros 2026-01-1021:23 Behold: https://theboard.stavros.io/
By Lerc 2026-01-1112:51 I kind-of want to see an experiment going the other way.
Have a repo that has a committee of AI models deciding what to merge. Inform them of the goals of the project and that they should only allow positive changes but people are allowed to make adversarial PRs.
It can be more active because the committee can meet on demand. Then people and AI's can attempt to bend the project to their wills.
By oniony 2026-01-1019:19 I honestly thought that this is what it was initially.
Most code by lines, perhaps, but not most code that works and is useful
By genghisjahn 2026-01-1022:023 reply Says who?
Says anyone who has tried to do anything requiring the smallest amount of computer science or computer engineering. These models are really great at boilerplate and simple web apps. As soon as you get beyond that, it gets hairy. For example, I have a clone of HN I've been working on that adds subscriptions and ad slot bidding. Just those two features required a lot of hand holding. Figma Design nailed the UX, but the actual guts/business logic I had to spend time on.
I expect that this will get easier as agentic flows get more mature, though.
Then the only place that novelty will occur is in the actual study of computer science. And even then, a well contexted agentic pipeline will speed even R&D development to a great degree.
One very bad thing about these things is the embedded dogma. With AI ruling the roost in terms of generation (basically an advanced and opinionated type-writer, lets be honest) breaking away from the standards in any field will become increasingly difficult. Just try and talk to any frontier model about physics that goes against what is currently accepted and they'll put up a lot of resistance.
By K0balt 2026-01-111:44 I’ve been pleasantly surprised how useful it is for writing low level stuff like peripheral drivers on imbedded platforms. It’s actually-simple- stuff, but exactingly technical and detail oriented. It’s interesting that it can work so well, then go wildly off the rails and be impossible to wrestle back on unless you go way back in the context or even start a completely new context and feed in only what is currently relevant (this has become my main strategy)
Still, it’s amazingly good at wrestling the harmony of a bunch of technical details and applying them to a tried and true design paradigm to create an API for new devices or to handle tricky timing, things like that. Until it isn’t and you have to abort the session and build a new one because it has worked itself into some kind of context corner where it obsesses about something that is just wrong or irrelevant.
Still, it’s a solid 2x on production, and my code is arguably more maintainable because I don’t get tempted to be clever or skip clarifying patterns.
There is a level of wholistic complexity that kills it though. The trick is dividing the structure and tasks into self contained components that contain any relevant state within their confines to the maximum practical extent, even if there is a lot of interdependent state going on inside. It’s sort a mod a meta-functional paradigm working with inherently state-centric modules.
> a clone of HN I've been working on that adds subscriptions and ad slot bidding
Wut, what's the purpose of that? Is this just a toy learning project? Would it be to make money off of people who don't know that an ad-free version of HN exists at news.ycombinator.com? Will you try to sell it to Ycombinator?
By ceroxylon 2026-01-1114:43 I am hoping they are developing it as a satirical art project, otherwise... yikes; needing a credit card and an ad blocker to use HN would be very depressing and is counter to everything I enjoy about this forum.
A "clone" usually doesn't mean that they'll copy the content, but the idea, like Ola is a clone of Uber.
(Though they probably should've said a link aggregator instead of HN clone.)
By all2 2026-01-1321:05 > (Though they probably should've said a link aggregator instead of HN clone.)
That's fair. It is a feature-to-feature clone, though.
By all2 2026-01-1321:04 Mostly just learning, to be honest. I'm not trying to replace HN, I'm just fiddling around and seeing what I can do and what I can't.
My long term purpose is to provide the source code for communities/creators that want something simple to set up, and specifically allow creators to gate content behind a paywall. I'm sure stuff like that exists, but I hope what I build will be at least somewhat use-able.
By owebmaster 2026-01-119:17 I'm glad you are not being competent enough to create a paid version of HN with the help of AI
By jibal 2026-01-1022:52 The name of the person who said it is on the left above the comment.
By bigstrat2003 2026-01-113:401 reply Says anyone with a modest level of skill at programming. It doesn't take a genius programmer to realize these things are terrible at writing code.
By jaredhallen 2026-01-116:511 reply Not a developer by trade. But incidentally, today I took my first stab at "vibe coding". I wrote a little gui program to streamline a process that I've been doing for years. The code is an absolute wreck. But the program works and does what it's meant to do. I wouldn't ever expect anyone to maintain it, but for what it is, I can't complain. The alternative would have been for the tool to have not been written at all. The level of effort was so low that a) it passed the threshold of it being worth my time, and b) if it needs to be re-vibe-coded over again, then no worries.
