Hey HN. We're Mus and Isaac - creators of LightLayer.
We've been outputting a ton more code since using agentic dev tools. It's been great. But we're starting to see a new bottleneck emerge that's no longer writing the actual code: reviewing code.
We’d love to hear from folks here if they’re feeling the inertia of code reviews a lot more these days with the surge in development velocity. For us, it was the reason we decided to pivot what we were working on before, and go full-time on building a workspace aimed at bringing the code review experience up to speed for the AI era.
To be clear: we’re not an auto-commenting PR bot (e.g. CodeRabbit, Greptile, Graphite, etc.). We think those tools are helpful, and can give a solid first-pass at issues for the author to iterate on. But we think human-in-the-loop reviews are here to stay and so we’ve gone with the approach of focussing on empowering reviewers with a consolidated workspace that delivers the context and sounding board they need to review quicker without sacrificing understanding or quality.
We basically brought all of the relevant parts of Github - discussions, file tree nav, diffs, timeline events, etc. into one view that both you and our agent - Lux - can see and work off of in real-time; kind of like a live review session with a senior team member (we actually got inspo from how much quicker reviews went for us in our jobs when we did pull ppl in to do live review sessions). We designed the UI around voice for this reason - to emulate that experience.
Anways, I’ll stop yapping and let y’all try it out - just sign in, and paste in any public URL to any Github PR. Highlight code or click on comments you want Lux to pay attention to and just speak naturally. Right now, Lux will point you to relevant places in the code, explain things, and draft comment copy for you.
This is all definitely still a WIP: Lux still doesn’t have complete context of the entire codebase and there’s some bugs we’re working through wrt conversation flow (please use bug nub if any arise). And there are a ton of other features we’d want to include eventually (MCPs for Slack, Linear, etc., comments in your learned tone) But it’s enough to showcase the experience we’re targetting and hopefully still create some value for those looking for more of a delightful code review experience.
We've been outputting a ton more code since using agentic dev tools. It's been great. But we're starting to see a new bottleneck emerge that's no longer writing the actual code: reviewing code.
We’d love to hear from folks here if they’re feeling the inertia of code reviews a lot more these days with the surge in development velocity. For us, it was the reason we decided to pivot what we were working on before, and go full-time on building a workspace aimed at bringing the code review experience up to speed for the AI era.
To be clear: we’re not an auto-commenting PR bot (e.g. CodeRabbit, Greptile, Graphite, etc.). We think those tools are helpful, and can give a solid first-pass at issues for the author to iterate on. But we think human-in-the-loop reviews are here to stay and so we’ve gone with the approach of focussing on empowering reviewers with a consolidated workspace that delivers the context and sounding board they need to review quicker without sacrificing understanding or quality.
We basically brought all of the relevant parts of Github - discussions, file tree nav, diffs, timeline events, etc. into one view that both you and our agent - Lux - can see and work off of in real-time; kind of like a live review session with a senior team member (we actually got inspo from how much quicker reviews went for us in our jobs when we did pull ppl in to do live review sessions). We designed the UI around voice for this reason - to emulate that experience.
Anways, I’ll stop yapping and let y’all try it out - just sign in, and paste in any public URL to any Github PR. Highlight code or click on comments you want Lux to pay attention to and just speak naturally. Right now, Lux will point you to relevant places in the code, explain things, and draft comment copy for you.
This is all definitely still a WIP: Lux still doesn’t have complete context of the entire codebase and there’s some bugs we’re working through wrt conversation flow (please use bug nub if any arise). And there are a ton of other features we’d want to include eventually (MCPs for Slack, Linear, etc., comments in your learned tone) But it’s enough to showcase the experience we’re targetting and hopefully still create some value for those looking for more of a delightful code review experience.
That said, would super appreciate any feedback.
Github (for issues): https://github.com/lightlayer-dev/community Demo: https://app.lightlayer.dev/ Website: https://www.lightlayer.dev/
Happy coding!
P.s we posted here last week pre-launch without reading through the 'rules' for Show HN - sorry!