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Gerrit is the other option I'm aware of but it seems like it might require significant work to administer.", "context": "team lead using GitHub", "use_case": "stacked diffs", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub Is Down"}, {"id": 747408497, "item_id": 46713031, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713031", "by": "samyok", "date": "2026-01-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "A lot of the features seem inspired by Graphite, which is also really enjoyable.", "excerpt": "Have been using Devin Review for a little bit, and I think it's the first of the many \"code review\" LLM-bots that have come out that doesn't actively feel like \"slop\". Seems like they must have some integrations with codemaps or deepwiki (the Cognition products I use most often) to power the insights. My favorite feature has been organizing the files by \"logical flow\" rather than alphabetically, which feels like such", "context": "", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Devin Review: AI to Stop Slop"}, {"id": 742183584, "item_id": 46386474, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46386474", "by": "cben", "date": "2025-12-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://graphite.art/ looks promising", "excerpt": "Computers are not a kitchen. They are clay, they are Lego, they are jungles of imagination. It's true that our current trajectory devolves their universality to a set of discrete isolated applications == multiplexing a set of appliances on one device. That's an economic win sure, but it's tragic if we fail to unlock more of their flexibility for \"end users\"! IMHO that's the biggest unsolved problems of computer scien", "context": "", "use_case": "visual procedural editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video]"}, {"id": 741263168, "item_id": 46328948, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328948", "by": "AlexB138", "date": "2025-12-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Graphite is a fantastic tool that I use every day.", "excerpt": "I made this comment on the Cursor announcement post: I wonder about this. Graphite is a fantastic tool that I use every day. Cursor was an interesting IDE a year ago that I don't really see much of a use case for anymore. I know they've tried to add other features to diversify their business, and that's where Graphite fits in for them, but is this the best exit for Graphite? It seems like they could have gotten furth", "context": "", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cursor Acquires Graphite"}, {"id": 741253504, "item_id": 46328344, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328344", "by": "AlexB138", "date": "2025-12-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Graphite is a fantastic tool that I use every day.", "excerpt": "I wonder about this. Graphite is a fantastic tool that I use every day. Cursor was an interesting IDE a year ago that I don't really see much of a use case for anymore. I know they've tried to add other features to diversify their business, and that's where Graphite fits in for them, but is this the best exit for Graphite? It seems like they could have gotten further on their own, instead of becoming a feature that C", "context": "", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Graphite is joining Cursor"}, {"id": 738566705, "item_id": 46160419, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160419", "by": "crabmusket", "date": "2025-12-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We had previously tried out Graphite but it didn't really stick.", "excerpt": "Half my team switched to JJ this year, and I do find stacking PRs to be much more pleasant now. We had previously tried out Graphite but it didn't really stick. I wrote up a little way to use JJ's revsets to make it easy to push an entire stack of branches in one command: https://crabmusket.net/2025/jj-bough-a-useful-alias-for-stacked-branches/", "context": "", "use_case": "stacked PRs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Stacked Diffs with git rebase \u2014onto"}]}