{"slug": "show-hn-shoaku-your-coding-navigator", "title": "Show HN: Shoaku – Your Coding Navigator", "summary": "A solo developer launched Shoaku, a coding assistant that helps programmers understand their code rather than writing it for them, after experiencing a loss of confidence in his own coding abilities when using AI agents like Codex and Claude. The tool runs a separate AI thread in the background to provide navigation assistance without autonomously writing code.", "body_md": "AI Agents like Codex and Claude are incredibly powerful and have drastically sped up implementation. However, I noticed a strange side effect: I began to lose confidence in my own coding. I submitted a pull request after the AI completed the implementation. It looked good, but during code review, I was asked, \"Why did you implement it this way?\" I grew increasingly embarrassed because I couldn't immediately explain the complex code. Previously, I built confidence by understanding the design through reading and writing code, which was enjoyable, but now I've lost that.\n\nThis coding assistant helps users understand their thought process and coding progress, with the AI acting solely as a guide and not writing code on its own. To still leverage the AI agent's autonomous implementation capabilities, a separate AI thread runs in the background in a temporary working directory, providing highly accurate navigation assistance to the user.\n\nThe AI's responses are still a bit strange at times, but if this concept resonates with you, please share your feedback. As a solo creator, I find that very encouraging. Thank you.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733144](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733144)\n\nPoints: 3\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-shoaku-your-coding-navigator", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/seachicken/intellij-shoaku", "published_at": "2026-06-30 14:24:33+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-30 14:50:38.176406+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Shoaku", "Codex", "Claude"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-shoaku-your-coding-navigator", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-shoaku-your-coding-navigator.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-shoaku-your-coding-navigator.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-shoaku-your-coding-navigator.jsonld"}}