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JetBrains Thinkrail

https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail
78•hmokiguess•4h ago

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fellowniusmonk•1h ago
This is moving in the direction towards a final interface, very good.

There aren't enough digital french cleat systems.

The true benefit of a French cleat isn't storage or organizing the way a fiddly pegboard and hanger approach uses, it's the ability to move all tools for a specific project onto a single rail without having to fiddle around, reducing friction for engaging and re-engaging with a project.

owl_might_•48m ago
Just out of curiosity, what is a French cleat? I've only found references to building (real) shelves on Google.
Jtsummers•43m ago
That's what it is, it's basically two boards with angled cuts to match. One mounted to the wall, the other to the thing you want to hang from the wall. No fasteners needed other than for those two attachments (or more if you use more boards). Gives you some flexibility in arranging things in a shop (or, that's my reason for using it with our 2-car garage).
zahrevsky•53m ago
> We built a rich interface around the pi coding agent

This is exactly what I was missing

tylerritchie•53m ago
yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219186
aliasxneo•48m ago
I'd have to be _strongly_ convinced to leave oh-my-pi and Paseo.
InsideOutSanta•12m ago
Yeah, now that agents are doing most of the work, and we want to give them as much freedom as possible to run code, take screenshots, click on things, etc, it really doesn't make much sense to have a setup where all of this happens on your local computer. IMO it makes more sense to have this hosted somewhere, and then have UIs that make this visible to you on your devices.
VMG•45m ago
It feels like the day after I got comfortable with jj everybody become obsessed with git worktrees
mpalmer•44m ago
The latest version of jj supports colocated git worktrees as part of its workspaces feature.
phildenhoff•34m ago
Finally!! Can’t wait for git lfs support to land, and I can move back to mostly using jj
nicce•11m ago
What are the benefits of jj if in the end everything is still on git backend?
troupo•44m ago
It's interesting to see that the README is much less CLAUDE-y than the abomination that currently runs at https://thinkrail.ai/

Also, reading through their "SPECS".... https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail/blob/d299f20d2ba014f3... or https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail/blob/d299f20d2ba014f3...

How is this llm-vomit "specs that are ground truth" etc.?

woadwarrior01•38m ago
The README has plenty of Claude-isms too.
hsuduebc2•42m ago
This is a great step. JetBrains integration of AI agents inside their ides is horrendously clunky.
tclancy•28m ago
I have multiple CLAUDE.md instructions about why using the terminal in JetBrains will burn the agent badly.
WesleyJohnson•14m ago
Can you expand on this? I genuinely don't know and I use claude code in a terminal in PyCharm daily.
yoyohello13•33m ago
Looks interesting, but they need to clean up the claudese in those bullet points holy crap. It's like they purposely want the "what you get" section to be as obtuse as possible.
collimarco•29m ago
Running agents outside containers seems crazy to me... It should at least launch a sperate microVM or container for each agent / task.
oDot•27m ago
I do not get the appeal of web-based GUIs now that we have LLMs.

Migrating my screenwriting software[0] from OpenTUI to Roc thought me what were once rough edges that take a lot of time are now just a prompt away from a solution.

It now uses 10x less RAM, bundle is half the size, and my initial implementation is 700-800 fps for scrolling and 200 fps for writing.

Granted, a TUI is less complex than a full-blown GUI, but I built a Roc Iced platform just as easily that abstracted Iced flux away

[0]: https://blisswriter.app/

someothherguyy•23m ago
for people who still code. why do you need them not to?
oDot•9m ago
I do code -- the app logic. I also am well aware of what the infrastructure code does, I just don't type any of it myself.

Even if I wanted not to code it I couldn't. LLMs are still incapable of creating code up to any decent standard.

Also, while I do the get the joy of programming, we sometimes forget to focus on the user. You being happy to have typed the whole thing once, and have it run everywhere via the magic of browsers may not be the best strategy if this means your user's lap will be overheating.

In the end as much as I like coding I would prefer my users' experience to be the best they can have. LLM assisted code delivers this better and faster than hand-typing it all (which in turn is better than completely vibecoding it)

rfgplk•21m ago
> TypeScript followed by a myriad other (objectively) slow languages

JetBrains, explain concisely why this isn't written in C/C++/Rust?

yoyohello13•17m ago
Very likely because Pi is written in TypeScript and Pi plugins are expected to by TS. TS is becoming the one true language. Best get used to it.
exizt88•15m ago
I refuse to take a repo with an AI-generated readme seriously. If you haven't bothered to write a readme, what else have you not bothered to do?

(100% AI according to Pangram btw)

dr_faustus•7m ago
I’ve been using JetBrains IDEs for over a decade but rarely open them anymore because working on several worktrees concurrently is extremely frustrating and wasteful. Their AI strategy is all over the place and they always wanted to sell their opaque and overpriced tokens, which made no sense. I hope they get their act together.
kowbell•6m ago
I also have to work in multiple workspaces simultaneously, and it drives me up the wall every time one of my IDE windows freezes (sometimes even just from inserting a Tab), because now ALL of them are frozen.

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