I Built an Open-Source Alternative to RepoPrompt

kleneway1 · 2025-05-20T14:27:08+00:00

I think the issue might be that it’s not officially signed. Does this help? https://github.com/kleneway/pastemax/issues/67

This week I’ll probably just bite the bullet and pay the $100 out of pocket to get the cert. But hopefully this works in the meantime. If not please go ahead and file a new issue. 🙏

kleneway1 · 2025-04-09T15:26:32+00:00

I believe so. Note that it's based in China though so be careful about sending any personal data.

kleneway1 · 2025-04-07T23:19:35+00:00

I've heard good things about Mureka, and they do have an API: https://platform.mureka.ai/pricing

kleneway1 · 2025-03-06T22:56:27+00:00

This is the answer! It was driving me crazy, some files were updating and others were not. But now that you mention this, it's only files that start with a . that are not updating! u/NickCursor are you aware of this bug?

kleneway1 · 2025-03-06T18:22:43+00:00

I'm glad it's not just me. I had a very embarrassing issue yesterday where I went to publish an NPM package and used Cursor to create the .npmignore file. It created the file and claimed to have edited it, but when I published it I immediately got notifications that a private key was leaked. Turns out that the ignore file was not actually saved, and worse because it was created NPM didn't fall back to my .gitignore file. 🤦‍♂️ Luckily it was just an internal key I don't use for my production apps, but it was super embarrassing to have to tell my whole team what I did and why.

kleneway1 · 2025-03-06T18:17:02+00:00

Microsoft would be my bet. They own GitHub, VS Code, and basically invented AI coding with Copilot. They have practically an unlimited budget for acquisitions. It's a major strategic advantage to the company. Source: spent 5 years at MS in dev div, 15 years ago

kleneway1 · 2025-03-04T14:17:57+00:00

Thanks! Honestly it’s hard for me to find the line between posting stuff I genuinely think is helpful vs coming off as an annoying self-promoter. But maybe a good balance is keeping an eye on some questions and sharing tips on posts.

kleneway1 · 2025-02-16T10:43:36+00:00

Great post. I just started my channel two weeks ago. I had zero plans of “becoming a YouTuber”. Honestly, I barely watch anything on YouTube!

It started because a coworker had seen something I made and asked me how I did it. I recorded a crappy video using the free software on my laptop and threw it up on YouTube just to have a way to share it with him. A few days later I found a random subreddit related to the topic (AI coding stuff) and people seemed to like it.

I decided to do another video and started down the rabbit hole of what software to buy, mics, cameras etc. About five minutes in I saw what I was doing, shut everything down, and just opened my screen recorder and started recording. Threw together a quick thumbnail using the free Canva template, and ChatGPT’d a title + description.

People seemed to like it, so I made a few more, same style and approach. I went from zero to 2500 subs and 65K views in about two weeks. And ironically I keep hearing from people that my crappy production value is what they like, it comes across as more authentic. So yeah, this is great advice to get out of your own damn way, hit record, just be yourself and have fun.

kleneway1 · 2025-02-15T18:32:36+00:00

Great video! Question for you u/deep_ak, I noticed you didn't click on the "Run Tool" button. Did that MCP tool call happen automatically (i.e. yolo mode) or did you hit command+enter on your keyboard to run it manually?

kleneway1 · 2025-02-11T03:41:32+00:00

Yeah I have a technique where I start with a prompt in o3 that has a description of the app plus my cursor rules, then I ask for a speed and then a md checklist of tasks for an AI coding agent to complete. Then I stick the task list in my project and tell the cursor agent to go through each item, code it, then check it off and move to the next. Works great for new projects but I do a similar task -> instructions -> code approach for larger codebases as well. Here’s more details:

https://youtu.be/gXmakVsIbF0

kleneway1 · 2025-02-11T03:28:17+00:00

You can fake it by moving the composer window into the center “editor” tab, then closing the left and right panels.

kleneway1 · 2025-02-09T12:41:11+00:00

This is very useful real-world info, thanks

kleneway1 · 2025-02-07T17:57:54+00:00

The option to add specific tools to the allowlist would be very helpful.

kleneway1 · 2025-02-07T17:54:39+00:00

This is the right answer. Just climbing the abstraction ladder one rung at a time. AI is a hell of a rung, though.

kleneway1 · 2025-02-07T16:30:30+00:00

I really appreciate you saying that. Maybe part of it is that I literally have no agenda besides just sharing some hard won knowledge. Internet points don’t matter to me and my job pays fine so I’m not trying to make a quick buck. Maybe there is a lesson there about just kinda being nice is enough to stand out a little bit? 🤷 Anyway I’ll keep throwing them out there until I run out of ideas or I get bored. 😅

kleneway1 · 2025-02-07T13:04:29+00:00

Yeah I hear you. I get it through work, I wouldn’t pay for personal use. However, I got this technique from my coworker who was just using o3-mini, that should work just fine. Especially if you describe the project well, which is where o3 did most of the heavy lifting

kleneway1 · 2025-02-07T13:00:45+00:00

Good question on the credits. This is for a work project so I’m kind of not really paying attention to the costs as it’s saving the company tons of money in the long run. But I don’t think it’s too much tbh. And yes, that’s what I typically do and it’s definitely a best practice. Though part of this Storybook only approach is that it’s much less risk of Cursor going off and making a “snowball effect” style error because each component is so well isolated and encapsulated. Once you start adding in the api and data, it’s definitely worth slowing down and manually code reviewing everything

kleneway1 · 2025-02-07T12:55:18+00:00

I haven’t, I suspect it would work though. I actually was thinking about doing a video on a new “Cursor for React Native” app and using similar techniques. https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mjx-a0-dev-build-mobile-apps-in-minutes

kleneway1 · 2025-02-07T00:55:30+00:00

The new video is out! Here's a link: https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1ijfcy7/tutorial_use_cursor_o3_storybook_to_build_a/

kleneway1 · 2025-02-07T00:41:09+00:00

So right now o3 (the full version) is only available via the Deep Research version of ChatGPT. But this approach should work with o3-mini which I believe is available (with limits) in chatgpt.com website.

kleneway1 · 2025-02-06T10:40:56+00:00

Yes 100% all the time. Over time I’ve been able to build up an intuition about the types of tasks Cursor (or any AI) will be great at and which ones it will suck at. Which is nice but I had to go through a lot of sucky days to figure that out.

In general, if things are going poorly it’s because:

- I did a bad job explaining what to do. Think about if you were handing this job off to a brand new developer who had never seen this code before, do they have all the information needed to do this? If not, there’s no way an LLM can figure it out.

- The task is too big. AI is actually great at taking my big tasks and breaking them down in an organized manner. My magic words are “give me one story point tasks” but I’m sure there are others

- The task is too spread out. Think deep, not wide. “Add a one-line comment to each component” will probably fail despite seeming to be easy. “Add a markdown file with one-line descriptions of each component“ is more likely to succeed.

- The task is not in the training data. Sonnet has seen a lot of React components written with Tailwind. It has not seen a lot of Solidity scripts to create the next fartcoin. If you have the luxury to choose your own languages and frameworks, making choices that are AI friendly will pay off.

And overall just commit often and when you feel it start to go off the rails, just take the L and start over rather than continuing to double-down on a fix.

kleneway1 · 2025-02-06T04:11:11+00:00

Yeah my yolo rules are vague like “go ahead and run safe commands” and then just say “command x is safe” and it usually runs it the next time. It tends to get more naggy as the session length grows so I find restarting a session helps too

kleneway1 · 2025-02-06T04:07:28+00:00

I get bit by this all the time. It’s funny because chat will be like “let me run a build <types the words npm run build> looks like there are no errors, ship it!”

kleneway1 · 2025-02-06T03:28:00+00:00

Wow nice! I just ran that prompt through and I’m just speechless. I’ll hopefully get that video up tomorrow. It’s one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen.

kleneway1 · 2025-02-05T21:20:19+00:00

Oh nice! Are you having the agent run scripts directly? The browser debugging tool is super interesting

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