AI pair programmer for Emacs
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I built a pair programmer, using AI, but now am trying to go slow with new languages and paradigms using this package.I have noticed a decline in my programming skills, and wondered why I couldn't use AI as a pair programmer. Why can it watch what I'm doing over my shoulder and suggest changes? That way I can struggle through problems still and actually learn something.Results have been good so far :)
HN · launched Jun 8, 2026 · 70 upvotes (top 12%) · 0 views
Niche: ai coding assistants · 151 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -22% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Writing an Emacs Lisp (Elisp) extension that hooks into buffer change events and sends context to an LLM completion API is a classic, weekend-accessible project with AI assistance.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: IDE with AI monitoring capabilities (commenter's own project)
Concerns raised: Chat-based UX is forced/limiting for AI coding tools, Chat agents lack competence for code tasks, Having to explain rather than show code to agents is inefficient
Feature requests: AI should monitor code as human writes it, Allow using human-written code as template for AI output, Option to rigidly match or treat human code as guide, Non-chat UI alternatives for code generation
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 263 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #36 of 264 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 222 days after the earliest competitor.
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