
Stop Trusting AI Tool Demos Until You Benchmark Them
AI demos are optimized for the tool. A small personal benchmark shows whether it works for your actual tasks…
synty is a local-first memory layer for coding-agent sessions and GitHub activity. It passively records sessions from tools such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cowork, then turns them into searchable local context through a terminal UI, CLI, and MCP surface. Developers can ask what happened in previous work, find related pull requests, inspect raw JSONL and SQLite data, and give future agents context without relying on a proprietary viewer. That makes synty useful for engineering teams and solo builders who run many AI-assisted implementation sessions and need recall, analytics, and continuity across them. Its Show HN launch described distributed LLM tracing with GitHub PR and issue linking, and the official superlinked/synty README verifies the concrete local-first workflow.
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