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Pieces
Company blog · pieces.app/blogprogrammingai
Pieces is the company blog at pieces.app, writing about programming and ai. Since 2024, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Pieces.app, a Workflow Copilot”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter suggests Pieces as a tool that does what the thread asks for, running fully locally or with a mix of frontier models. The comments do not discuss any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Pieces builds artificial memory from your work so you can recover decisions, resume where you left off, and bring real context into every AI tool.
Most-linked posts?
- Pieces.app, a Workflow Copilot6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-06-22
- Creating a Star Trek-Inspired GenAI Copilot Using Pieces and DevCycle2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-14
What Hacker News says?
You should check out https://pieces.app/ ive been using it for months and I am surprised I have never seen anyone ever talk about it. It does exactly what you are asking for, and it can do it completely locally or with a mixture of frontier models.
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on “Codex for Almost Everything”Submitted Exploring Microsoft's Phi-3-Mini and its integration with tool like Ollama as a story · 84 points
HN discussion> But it seems so weird to me to be a Linux open source adopter, who is also so am conservative. I used to be a tech enthusiast who installed the latest bleeding edge everything. Now days I need a stable machine that lets me work. Sometimes my work is bleeding edge, but I want my machine to be boring and stable. I can't run the latest open source models if I can't get my machine to even boot. Also some of the latest…
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on “Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0”Submitted How we made our OCR code more accurate as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted What the heck is MCP? And why is everybody talking about it? as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted What leaders need to know about small language models (SLMs) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Essential open source large language models to watch in 2025 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The rise of on-device AI and the return of data ownership as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted IBM outperforms OpenAI? What 50 LLM tests revealed? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can do what with Pieces? Jim's top copilot prompts as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Someday Is Already Here as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The rise of on-device AI and the return of data ownership as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A different perspective on prompt evaluation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pieces MCP Server: Add Long-Term Memory to Your Favorite AI Tools as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a coded and operational copilot: a hands-on guide with Pieces as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pieces now powered by Ollama for enhanced local model integration as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Which is your favorite memory tool? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Guide to the Temporal API in JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asynchronous vs. Synchronous Programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The next big LLM trends in 2025 to watch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pieces.app, a Workflow Copilot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pieces: The easiest way to never forget anything as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pieces (macOS): what you did, in what app and when – saved automatically as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New for 2025 – more local models in Pieces, including Qwen Coder and Phi-4 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How should a developer understand LLM Prompt Engineering? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Converting a Dart Google Chrome Extension to a Safari Extension as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pieces: long-term memory for whole developer workstream as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Star Trek-Inspired GenAI Copilot Using Pieces and DevCycle as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Star Trek-Inspired GenAI Copilot Using Pieces and DevCycle as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's ahead for programmers in next 18 months as per Chris Slee, Transform Labs as a story · 1 points
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