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…[3] : hof : A tool that unifies data models, schemas, code generation, and a task engine., https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof --------------------- Beamup with Erlang and Elixir : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIysBF-uWf4&t=203s The…

comment by sargstuff · 2026-10-30 · in Ask HN: What's missing for a true deterministic abstraction layer?

I've built something like this, check out the code gen feature https://hofstadter.io | https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof It's built around CUE + text/template (template authoring is the more painful part)

comment by verdverm · 2026-10-30 · in Ask HN: What's missing for a true deterministic abstraction layer?

Are you this guy? https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next Third time I've seen CUE mentioned in this context in as many days.

comment by threecheese · 2026-10-28 · in The Agent SDK

…definitely be interested! I have another thing in hof that is closer to this, also CUE + Dagger https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/examples/env https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/lib/env I'm gearing up for a major…

comment by verdverm · 2026-10-25 · in We should be more ambitious with the software we build

The breadcrumbs start here: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/lib/agent (my personal developer swiss army knife) I'm gearing up for a major rewrite, there is a lot of cruft in there from nearly 10 years of my experiments and…

comment by verdverm · 2026-10-24 · in Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab

…harness, though that may be a bit off, there are more important things to work (and burn tokens) on https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/lib/agent

comment by verdverm · 2026-10-13 · in Major security regression merged into OpenCode V2

…I can import and version, skipping the need for a markdown dependency cycle management system. https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof (sharing because it has sloppy parts and that/I.S. shouldn't stop you from sharing!)

comment by verdverm · 2026-09-09 · in Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

…time travel, forking, jump into shell at any turn, diff between any points. Good entrypoint folder: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/lib/agent

comment by verdverm · 2026-04-21 · in Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go

…I back my agents and sessions with it for superpowers beyond sandboxing. My personal CLI/TUI is https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof and starts from a CUE centric developer experience. The above is also a part of it

comment by verdverm · 2026-04-03 · in Ask HN: Which CLI tools do you use daily?

…Dagger, though they are talked about by more than nobody They are central to my personal dev tool https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof

comment by verdverm · 2026-04-01 · in Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

…share via registries... This has been my setup since early this year, not even that much code: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/lib/agent/se... The bigger effort is making it play nice with vscode so you can browse and edit…

comment by verdverm · 2026-03-13 · in Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes

…the model for subagents and more tools. Most of my custom agent stack is here, built on ADK: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/lib/agent

comment by verdverm · 2026-03-12 · in Shall I implement it? No

…work to build a Copilot alternative (ide integration, cli). I've done a lot of that with adk-go, https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof

comment by verdverm · 2026-02-21 · in Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents

…there. There are 1000s now, you are not the first to think of or implement any of this. It's within https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof if you are curious I prefer a world where more people do what we have, but don't try to make it into a…

comment by verdverm · 2026-02-19 · in ClaudeSwarm v2: Swarm Graph Visualization, Usage Tracking, and Billing

…interfaces (CLI, TUI, GUI (vscode/webapp)) to the core features of my personal swiss army knife ( https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof )

comment by verdverm · 2026-02-13 · in Building a TUI is easy now

…as a single "pointer" I use this here, which eventually becomes the sandbox my agent operates in: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/blob/_next/.veg/contain...

comment by verdverm · 2026-02-03 · in Deno Sandbox

I have built something similar, using CUE to define the source of truth instead of JS/TS. https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof How do users connect the generated code to the code they have to write in your framework? I use diff utils so…

comment by verdverm · 2026-01-29 · in Show HN: Schema-first codegen for SQL, Rust, Go, Python and TS (single binary)

…wrote you can start from, I've stepped back from the edge of building a CI system on it for now... https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/examples/env

comment by verdverm · 2026-01-28 · in What would GitHub Actions look like if you designed it today?

…on something similar, but geared towards integration with VS Code. Builds on CUE + Dagger via https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/examples/env This allows you to not only run current commands in a containerized environment, but…

comment by verdverm · 2026-01-18 · in Show HN: Run LLMs in Docker for any language without prebuilding containers

I'm looking over the edge and into the abyss of building a CI/CD system based on: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/examples/env There are no enjoyable or even pleasant to use CI/CD systems

comment by verdverm · 2026-01-18 · in Ask HN: Idea Sunday

…try, with CUE I've been cooking up something the last few weeks for those interested, CUE + Dagger https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/examples/env

comment by verdverm · 2026-01-17 · in What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do

…intro code gen docs: https://hofstadter.io/getting-started/code-generation/ core code gen package: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/lib/gen you'll likely want to move from printf to text/template and then put a schema on the…

comment by verdverm · 2026-01-15 · in Show HN: GoGen – A simple template-based file generator written in Go

…Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/verdverm.com The container stuff that backs it is built on Dagger https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/examples/env The entire extension and agent framework is in that repo too extensions/vscode…

comment by verdverm · 2026-01-10 · in AI coding assistants are getting worse?

…switched to pro once or twice the last few days Here are the commits, the tasks were not trivial https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/commits/_next/ Social posts and pretty pictures as I work on my custom copilot replacement…

comment by verdverm · 2025-12-21 · in Get an AI code review in 10 seconds

…is super interesting and where the real differentiating skills are Built on ADK, CUE, and Dagger https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_next/lib/agent (my swiss army knife for dev work, getting a rename soon(tm))

comment by verdverm · 2025-12-14 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/Hof Essentially CUE + text/template with QoL features

comment by verdverm · 2025-10-23 · in Ask HN: The most powerful use of macros / code generation you've had

…want to eject a file onto the filesystem without having to do echo or EOF business in bash scripts https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_dev/script/runtim...

comment by verdverm · 2025-02-08 · in Show HN: Chez Scheme txtar port from Go

…package in the standard library https://pkg.go.dev/runtime/debug#BuildSetting Example usage: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/blob/_dev/cmd/hof/verin...

comment by verdverm · 2025-01-19 · in How to include Git version information in a Golang binary (2023)

…(2) it becomes data (json/yaml) I can use anywhere for other purposes beyond generating code. [1] https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof

comment by verdverm · 2025-01-10 · in Glimmer: DSL Framework for Ruby GUI and More

…you modify the generated code and the design for the automated code as many times as you like. https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof

comment by verdverm · 2024-12-29 · in Libero – A Programmer's Tool and Code Generator (1997)

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story by verdverm · 2024-06-07 · 1 comment

…pain you felt doing the html by hand! I learned a lot by working on a universal formatting setup. https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_dev/formatters

comment by verdverm · 2024-05-16 · in Show HN: Syntax highlighting tool for code snippets in HTML

…objects rather than full schemas, which I have a hunch will be distracting and not reasoned about. https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/blob/_dev/lib/chat/cmd/...

comment by verdverm · 2024-05-14 · in Using Cuelang With Go for extracting structured data from LLMs

…need routers, RAG, and reranking I think there is a role for LLM + deterministic code gen as well ( https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/blob/_dev/flow/chat/pro... )

comment by verdverm · 2024-05-13 · in GPT-4o

…are interested in a flexible code gen framework, I built one that had this very use case in mind. ( https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof ) I'd be happy to think / talk this through with you

comment by verdverm · 2024-05-06 · in Ask HN: Help with transpiling TypeScript to Golang and Python using LLMs

…so you can create as many panels as you like. https://docs.hofstadter.io/getting-started/hof-tui/ https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_dev/lib/tui This was built on the tview/tcell stack in Go. There is also the Charm.sh stack that…

comment by verdverm · 2024-05-06 · in Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

…value add (source of truth -> all the things). I've been through some of these pain points myself. https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof The idea is CUE + text/template = <all the things> (not limited to APIs)

comment by verdverm · 2024-04-30 · in TypeSpec: A new language for API-centric development

…users are not going to understand these things This sounds similar to the goals of my hof tool ( https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof ), lift type definitions out of code so they can be defined in one place, then generate the code for all…

comment by verdverm · 2024-03-14 · in Ask HN: Are SQL developers generally familiar with JSON, VSCode and Docker?

…reached sufficient maturity for broader adoption yet, so I continue to face this same problem. https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof What we built is more like a framework for building WASP + boilerplate for anything, both sides of the…

comment by verdverm · 2024-01-30 · in Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid boilerplate starters

…to do something more sophisticated with a JSON object response (predates functions and all that) https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/blob/_dev/flow/chat/pro... It no longer worked after a model update some time ago, haven't tried…

comment by verdverm · 2023-12-15 · in Prompt engineering

…would follow it. Of course you have to redo the prompt every time there is an update... such a pain https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/blob/_dev/flow/chat/pro... What surprised me is that you don't need all those "fancy" specialty…

comment by verdverm · 2023-11-28 · in Ask HN: What's the most compelling AI prompt result you've seen?

…split yaml/json across files, CUE is a great option You might also like my project, built on CUE: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof We have a TUI where you can explore and work with CUE, JSON, Yaml

comment by verdverm · 2023-10-10 · in HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans

…much make up any pseudo grammar like this one, which is a reduced JSON object that is close to CUE: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/blob/_dev/flow/chat/pro... No need to be formal or use a standard format, just need a pattern the LLM…

comment by verdverm · 2023-10-06 · in Show HN: A tool to Convert JSON schemas into TypeScript Deno classes

…= anything maybe what you are describing is like the prior Yaml based input we used to use? [1] https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof [2] https://docs.hofstadter.io/getting-started/code-generation/#...

comment by verdverm · 2023-09-28 · in That's a Lot of YAML

…it in our Readme, under features > chat > Combine LLM and Hof code gen for better, scalable results https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof

comment by verdverm · 2023-09-28 · in What codegen is good for

…quotes and commas meant fewer tokens. We turn this into JSON afterwards, works surprisingly well https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/blob/_dev/flow/chat/pro...

comment by verdverm · 2023-09-17 · in Guidance: A guidance language for controlling large language models

…You can get the same thing with Go text/templates by adding chat function(s) as custom a helper: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/blob/_dev/lib/templates... As a developer of these things, I don't get why they want to put so much…

comment by verdverm · 2023-09-16 · in Guidance: A guidance language for controlling large language models

…do on a website (/rant WASM limitations). Using the Go SDK is the way to unlock CUE super powers. https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof

comment by verdverm · 2023-09-13 · in The Power of Prolog

…it a coordination problem. We have a similar project Harmony, inspired by Unity, powered by Dagger. https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_dev/ci/harmony (it's really just a dagger pipeline that has a few flags and loops over data in a…

comment by verdverm · 2023-09-08 · in Semver violations are common, better tooling is the answer

…you can get the best of both, or pick the best for the task at hand. experiments in progress here: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof/tree/_dev/lib/tui

comment by verdverm · 2023-09-07 · in Textual Web: TUIs for the Web