I've been thinking of ways to continue getting advantages out of AI coding tools without letting my brain become mush. One way I'm trying out is to have an AI assistant that refuses to write any real code; rather, it will guide you and direct you to the solution you're looking for. You'll still have to write the code yourself.

This is a simple prototype of the idea. It has been useful to me already! Thinking of building a VSCode extension or vim plugin if there is interest.

Right now it's just a simple webapp frontend that you can run locally, and it calls gpt-5-nano as the LLM. Will consider adding local models in the future.