I don't buy that. If I give AI a high-level task and expect it to fill in the blanks on the lower level details, it makes horrendous decisions, trust me I tried. I tried treating my agents as a team of engineers and I am a "high level" engineering manager. It quickly built broken features.

This is sort of my approach as well, but is your team on the same page as you? or are they far more AI-pilled? everyone around me is much more AI-pilled so this mismatch in approach to AI is making it hard to collaborate

> It is empowering to hand off execution July 26, 2026

> I read David Nicholas Williams's short blog post titled It's not empowering to hand off the details, in which he argues that AI cannot replace expertise because doing good work requires deep familiarity with the details.

> I couldn't agree more!

> He articulates very well the puzzling phenomenon I see every day with "AI-pilled" colleagues (including many engineers) who trust the model with far more than they should. They delegate the thinking and designing along with the execution, lose touch with the codebase, miss out on critical learnings, and then complain when the slop they produced doesn't solve the original problem.

> But I think the argument is incomplete without a counterexample. There is one phase where handing off work to AI is genuinely empowering, and that is worth defining and formalizing.

This is amazing , really brings me back to those sweet old days. Just curious, is this built with any JS framework ? the code looks like its vanilla JS !! which is fantastic .. and is it open source / Github project ?

Thank you all for the great feedback you have given me. Please join the CodeOwl subreddit to stay in touch, I will be posting updates over there for all the features requested in this thread !

https://www.reddit.com/r/codeowl/

Happy Coding

We got quite a bit of traffic , and the target group is perfect for codeowl, also the feedback has been overwhelming and mostly positive. I think Show HN is a great idea for dev tools

As someone planning to do a "Show HN", understanding what "quite a bit of traffic" means, would be helpful. Can you could divulge more details? Happy you got positive feedback. Seems like a good idea for a tool, and nicely implemented. Thanks.

I guess it's all relative , but we recieved about 7200 unique user sessions in 2 days from HN. Let me know when your Show HN is published :)

Thanks. That's helpful.

My app, if you care to take a look now:

https://ixberg.com/#/invite/2018-hn-1

(anyone reading this can try this as well)

Search is a feature we are working on for the next update

export sounds like an awesome feature to add .. I guess the format of the exported data is something I'd have to think about

any format in particular ? .. JSON would be the most natural , XML is possible .. plain text probably the most useful

Whatever would be simple and stable. So yaeh, JSON seems to be the obvious choice. I guess Firebase or your web-framework is already using it internally?

Export is the natural downfall of every cloud-solution. Because if people have no way to get their data, many will not bother to bound with a closed up tool.

This seems to be the most consistent feedback we've had so far, so you can definitely expect tiling mode to come soon

No worries man. I love the initial site and concept. I can't wait to see more of it. I will show it to my team next week. I'd love to save screenshots and an autosave, I'm pretty forgetful.

I will continue to use it and give you guys feedback. Nice work!

I would say the most obvious difference is having all your notes / dashboards in the cloud, accessible through a web-browser, and being able to share them with others through a url

That would be so cool to have for Org mode, a version of emacs that runs in the browser where you can cloud-edit your org mode files.

very interesting .. I will be looking into that ! thank you