Precision feedback for CLI-based coding agents is terrible. We built and open sourced PlanBridge (https://plan.contextbridge.ai) to fix this. It is a CLI that lets your coding agent open a local browser with a rendered plan/spec (or just the last agent message) so you can select and comment directly on the text and iterate with precision.

A few years back I wrote a backend implementation of the LiveView protocol in Typescript (https://liveviewjs.com) and played around with another BunJS-specific implementation (https://hotdogjs.com/). (Also did Java and Go versions but that's another story.)

There isn't an official "protocol" so I had to figure it out by watching the WS traffic and determining how it worked which was fun if not tedious. That said, the more I learned, the more I was impressed by the efficiency and the programming model which felt simpler yet more powerful than SPAs.

I did get to a point where I just got too busy to keep up and over the last couple of years things have changed a bit on the "protocol" side.

But recently (a week ago-ish), I started poking at the old LiveViewJS repo with the help of coding agents. Now that Phoenix is past 1.0 and the JS runtimes (Node, Deno, Bun) have more overlap in terms of APIs and library support, I think it will be more straight forward and frankly easier to get and stay at parity.

Genuinely curious if you've used "plan mode" (with perhaps a plan feedback tool) to get clarity from your coding agent before unleashing it on a feature like "add a pods view with live updates"?

Getting a plan isn't a panacea but is a better way to limit downstream slop than just vibing without one.

The Doge had no power.

Welcome to my rathole: Venetian history. To expand on your thesis, the Council of Ten was the executive power in Venice, but the Doge and minor council attended the Council of Ten meetings and the Doge often chaired those meetings. And even if he was powerless, the Council was made up of other old men. I don't want to push this whole argument, I'm not recommending we adopt the Venetian constitution. But I don't think you can blame current chaos on age.

There is another variable, the rate of change. When a Venetian Doge was 80 years old, the world was.. more or less the same as when he was 20.

Contrast that to now, where an 80 year old in his twenties likely did not even have colour TV.

Can you explain how is the example of Venetian republic relevant for something like a massive multi-cultural, multi-racial federation in 21st century? One that's led by 100s of old people not just ten rich family heads?

I clicked through the $100k credits link and didn’t see Cloudflare listed as an Atlas partner? (Maybe not updated?)

This looks interesting nonetheless.

Came here to say something similar. Adults are just as hooked to their addiction feeds as kids.

These are uber-personalized feeds optimized to keep you scrolling to the next item (story / video / post) so companies can show more ads.

"Social media" is a textbook example of a euphemism. We should be calling this what it is: "addiction feeds".

Seconded. Interesting read.

Haha. Underrated comment!

Some folks have been using the term “promptbaiting” to describe these obvious engagement tactics.

Thanks for this coinage. FYI your comment got killed.

Working on that too. Lmk if you’re up for a chat?

yea I'm down - feel free to send me an email ben@benr.build