Broccoli

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1. Everything on Broccoli goes through multiple rounds of design critiques, and then multiple rounds of code review

   Recommends · May 2026 · in “Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud”

2. We see much better results from calling the models independently and do adversarial review and response.

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud”

3. Moving that to your own cloud with no third-party control plane feels like the right middle ground.

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud”

4. The main difference is that you have full control over this!

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud”

5. Like the detailed setup instructions in the readme!

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud”

6. this is exactly what I was looking for!

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud”

7. Good on you for putting it out there.

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud”

8. Thanks for making it open source

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud”

9. We don’t believe PM or eng can write the best prompt or spec, so we don’t ask them to.

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud”

10. I doubt your harness can be better since they see so much traffic through theirs.

    Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud”

11. to trigger it you can just tag two repos in the Linear label!

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud”

12. I like everything about this idea but "one-shot"

    Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud”