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Jan 24, 2026 7 min read

Code at the Speed of Thought

Writing code involves two distinct activities:

  1. The Architecture: The pure logic. "I need a user object that relates to a session."
  2. The Syntax: The manual labor. interface User { id: string; ... }

For the last 40 years, we have been trapped doing both. We are architects forced to lay every single brick by hand. It is slow, it is prone to carpal tunnel, and honestly? It is boring.

AhhCode is my declaration of independence from Syntax.

The Agent That Codes

AhhCode is not "autocomplete." It isn't a plugin that suggests the next line. It is an Autonomous Agent that lives in your terminal. It has hands. It has eyes.

When you type: > ahh create a nextjs auth system using lucia and prisma

AhhCode doesn't just spit out a code snippet.

  • It reads your package.json to check your versions.
  • It scans your file structure to understand your patterns.
  • It installs the dependencies.
  • It writes the files to disk.

The Feedback Loop

The problem with most "Coding AI" is that it is blind. It writes code, hands it to you, and walks away. If that code crashes, that's your problem.

AhhCode operates in a Loop:

  1. Plan: It looks at the request and breaks it into steps.
  2. Execute: It writes the code.
  3. Verify: It attempts to build or run the code.
  4. Fix: This is the magic. If the build fails, AhhCode reads the error log, understands why it failed, and rewrites the code to fix it.

It iterates until the build passes.

ahh fix the typescript errors in /lib

Thinking...
Found 3 errors in utils.ts.
Error 1: 'any' implicit type.
Patching utils.ts...
Build failed. Retrying...
Patching types.ts...
Build successful.

The Context Window

The hardest part of building AhhCode was giving it Memory. How do you fit an entire codebase into an LLM's context window? You don't.

We built a Vector Retrieval System (RAG) specifically for code. When you ask AhhCode to "fix the login," it doesn't read the whole project. It embeds your query, finds the relevant files (login.tsx, auth.ts, user.ts), and constructs a dynamic prompt containing only the context it needs.

This allows it to work on massive monorepos without hallucinating or running out of tokens.

The End of "Grind"

I built AhhCode because I want to focus on the What, not the How. I want to build systems, not type characters.

This tool transforms the terminal from a command line into a conversation with a competent junior engineer who never sleeps, never complains, and types at 10,000 words per minute.