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Dosu
Company blog · dosu.dev/blogprogrammingai
Dosu is the company blog at dosu.dev, writing about programming and ai. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Show HN: Maintaining Code Should be Easier than Writing it”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN comments link dosu.dev to promote Dosu, an AI assistant that helps open-source maintainers triage GitHub issues and answer questions from project docs. The comments do not discuss the site's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dosu is knowledge infrastructure for engineering teams and the coding agents they work with. Dosu keeps docs, specs, and agent memory current with your code.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Maintaining Code Should be Easier than Writing it3 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2024-01-26
- You Build. Dosu Documents2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-11-01
What Hacker News says?
> Another drawback is the difficulty of learning Typst. The official documentation is confusingly organized, with information scattered unpredictably among "Tutorial", "Reference", and "Guides" sections. They should add Dosu[0] to their repo. Dosu works with a lot of open source packages already. [0] https://dosu.dev
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on “Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement”Submitted Show HN: Maintaining Code Should be Easier than Writing it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think the only way to keep documentation up-to-date is to have it as part of the PR review process. Knowledge needs to evolve with code. We working on this at https://dosu.dev/ (open to feedback!)
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on “Getting AI to work in complex codebases”Submitted Knowledge Infra for Agents and Humans as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBig fan of Aider. We are interesting in integrating Aider as a tool for Dosu https://dosu.dev/ to help it navigate and modify a codebase on issues like this https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues/8263#issuec...
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on “Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal”Submitted Show HN: How to Catch Documentation Drift with Claude Code and GitHub Actions as a story · 1 points
HN discussion^this, but many non-code documents with manual steps can also be kept up-to-date as long as there is a way (a) relate it back to the codebase or another source of truth (b) detect conflicts (when someone says something in contradiction to an existing document) Disclaimer: We are building this at https://dosu.dev
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on “95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend”Submitted You Build. Dosu Documents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI feel this pain as a solo maintainer of a somewhat popular open source project. More users brings more questions in GitHub issues and Discord. That’s one reason I added interactive help [0] to aider. Users can type `/help <question>` in the app to get AI help, based on all of aider’s docs. I’ve been considering turning it into a bot for GitHub issues and discord. Dosu [1] is another app in this “triage issues” spac…
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on “Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture”Submitted Dosu – Support OSS Maintainers and Their Communities as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWell, it is called dosubot, it has a "bot" flair, the message starts with a robot emoji, and its writing style is very recognizably that of a "helpful AI assistant". Plus it links to https://dosu.dev/ at the bottom.
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on “I'm confused: what's with the project descriptions at HTTPS://pkgx.dev/pkgs/?”Submitted Is this cool animation worth the scrolljacking? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCouldn't be more spot on. This is exactly why I started Dosu https://dosu.dev/ to reimagine on the "knowledge" side of software engineering.
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on “Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck”Dosu ( https://dosu.dev ) | Ambitious Software Engineers | SF - Hybrid | Full Time Maintaining you're code, should be easier than writing it. Checkout Dosu in action: https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues/11371#issue... https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/issues/7684#issueco... https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues/11359#issue... jobs at dosu dot dev
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)”the future of OSS maintenance: https://dosu.dev/
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on “What Are You Building? Share Your Projects”If anyone else is looking to migrate from Celery to DBOS, we also made this transition and wrote about it https://dosu.dev/blog/migrate-celery-to-dbos-dosu Very happy we made the switch.
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on “Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows”