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He replaced a 1,000 dollar a month review bot with his own harness at about 100 dollars

Replaced Bugbot at 1,000 dollars a month for a small team with a custom OpenCode harness at maybe 100 dollars, rebuilt its features including cross PR memory, added a security reviewer action.

$900a month

How it works

  1. He rebuilds the bot's features in a custom harness
  2. Adds memory across pull requests
  3. Adds a security reviewer
  4. The bill drops from about 1,000 dollars a month to about 100

Why it’s worth knowing

The rebuild kept the feature he actually valued: memory across pull requests.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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