Hi HN! We launched Codebuff last week, and it gave us a fun idea to try: Twitch plays Codebuff.<p>We rigged up Twitch chat to control an old laptop of ours by sending Codebuff commands. Any chat message prefixed with ‘>’ is interpreted as a command for Codebuff. We’re starting with a blank web app running on localhost. So if you say “> Make the header spin”, then Codebuff will modify the css to make it happen. Codebuff can also run any terminal command (I hope you don’t brick our laptop haha).<p>Yesterday we tested this out with our community and they successfully got Codebuff to add a map of the US (via installing some package that it found), add all the state capitals as red dots, and draw the shortest path through the capitals. They also built a little synthesizer together.<p>Maybe this could create a new category of open source, where a bunch of people synchronously create whole apps together by guiding an AI with natural language input? It’s exciting to combine the creativity of a crowd of humans with the raw ability of a coding agent. It’s also just fun to create with strangers and take an app in wildly different directions!<p>We’ll be here for a couple hours, feel free to pop on by and add some fun stuff to our website! Or maybe troll everyone, iono.