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mic_smon Getting into Flow with AI Coding

Hi, modern frontier LLM's are very well with coding, just issue them as reacher context for the theme of your work as you can.

mic_smon I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

Sounds interesting for me, could you share a link of POC?

mic_smon [dead]

Interesting.

But how it differs from OpenClaw? Or are they can be connected together?

mic_smon [dead]

Hi HN - author here.

Problem I kept hitting: ask the agent for a 15-line fix, get a 500-line renovation that still compiles and passes tests.

Boffin is a small control layer for AI coding agents. Before an edit, it feeds the agent only the architectural constraints for the file it is about to touch, then makes it verify the result. Not another static AGENTS.md for the whole repo.

On DuckDB, a guided refactor landed at +17 / -17 lines with 2,104 assertions passing. Same shape of cases also on FastAPI and LangChain (in the repo examples/).

Try it: npx boffinit cursor

Also works with Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode.

Happy to answer questions — especially if you have a place where the agent keeps "improving" load-bearing code.

mic_smon Ask HN: Do you find vibe coding / agentic engineering to be fulfilling?

One of the problems is a lack of architectural memory in LLM's context.