Andrew D. Anderson

Founder of @hob_app by @SmartAppsCo_

Previously Director of Security Tooling R&D @OpenZeppelin

Building tools for developers who value independence

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@jayair @hob_app team is nearby for the next week! Let's meet up!

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@kskrygan Incredibly important!

And there's room for some more players in the independent development tools space. We're making @hob_app generally available next week, too.

Independent tools or dependent developers!

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@LefterisJP It's super sad to see, honestly.

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@GergelyOrosz @hob_app couldn't agree more. And we're making it dead-simple to offramp and/or intermix providers without changing the users' workflows.

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@hob_app On a more serious note, its excellent at making plans for codex / gpt to execute!

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Everyone I know has been asking me "What do you think about Fable?!"

It's in a class of its own, that's for sure! And we've added a new feature to @hob_app in response to its release...

Scheduled sends, meet Fable 5!

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@lex_node @hob_app is coming out of alpha next week to fight the good fight and give people an option for building their dev workflows in an ide that doesn't want their data or to sell them inference.

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Every agent in hob, from any backend - codex, claude, opencode - has full access to all actions a human user has.

That includes opening new panes, workspaces, etc.

So codex can open a claude agent pane, specify a model, ask a question, get the answer back. Seamless.

🤖

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If your agentic backends cannot freely collaborate on demand, are you sure you're using the right ide?

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@koeppelmann I always end with, "make it best in class".

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@bcardarella It critical to be able to undo the 1% of the time the agent really messes up (albeit that is becoming more rare).

But its also helpful to link the commits and the conversations. So when you revist a decision you (and agent) have full context.

Commits are great snapshots.

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A family member's house collapsed yesterday in General Santos City, PH after the mag 7.8 earthquake.

Sad stuff.

The house isn't expensive by western standards, but it will take them probably half a decade to recover from without help. Many such cases.

https://t.co/KxOwE496Ge

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@_Evan_Boyle We set out to develop @hob_app to give everyone an alternative from "data harvesting, lock-in engineering" .

If copilot is aligned, lets chat!

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@hrkrshnn @jxnlco Can you DM me with the list too, or post it openly? 😓

Building @hob_app - an independent workspace as an alternative to the big inference vendors' tooling.

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@abarmat Seeing it too.

A simple ci check should ensure this doesn't happen, right? So its a compound issue of using LLMs to ships docs, but not taking the extra five minutes to have the LLMs ship the ci check to keep those docs clean.

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@lmrankhan How are you interacting with them day to day? I guess the front-end/ backend split keeps things sort of more organized than a random mix, but multi TUI was still too messy for me. So we built @hob_app to make it effortless to stay more organized with multiple agent backends.

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200k lines of code, a product our alpha users loved... but distribution is hard. And we dont want to be "free" (harvest user data) we want to sell an actual product that has the long term best interest of users in mind...

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@hob_app team sometimes discusses applying to @ycombinator et al, but is it worth it if we already have years of runway and a cracked team? Interested in opinions on that, the appeal of bootstrapping is strong.

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@AbhiCodes15 All the time. Its why we built @hob_app