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by mertbio 20 days ago
I’ve known Hendrik for years, and he is one of the most talented developers I’ve ever met. I’m confident this project will become successful very quickly. Beyond the project itself, what fascinates me most is how he single-handedly developed it by leveraging agentic coding.
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I second that. I've personally known him for almost 30 years by now, and he's still one of the smartest, most experienced, and most curious devs I've ever met. All around good guy, would work with him again any day of the week.
I've never met Hendrik but the code looks cool :)
Can you share something that you found nice?
How is that fascinating? That's what makes up most of the tedious Show HN posts these days.
There is a difference between vibe coding (asking an agent to generate an app from specifications) and leveraging agents to go faster on your vision. You can still decide to control the technical architecture and decisions and just let agents type on your behalf.
The anxious pendulum swings hard between "show me something real that is well done" and "what is interesting about it, that's what everyone does".
Has he made anything else interesting?
20 or so years ago him and czottmann wrote a nice little wiki software that I used, WakkaWiki. Following him/them and their work ever since. Crazy.
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