{"id":94565,"title":"Compyle - Lovable for Software Engineers","tagline":"The first coding agent that actually stops and asks questions","body":"**TL;DR**\n\nCompyle is the coding agent that actually collaborates. It doesn’t just guess what you mean - it asks, plans, and checks in before writing a single line of code. That means you can trust it with bigger and more ambiguous projects than any other coding agent.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/iNQ8G4k03gc\n\n🙏 **Our ask**\n\n**Try our beta today at [compyle.ai](http://compyle.ai)** and let us know what you ship! \n\nJust connect your Github, select your repos, and create a task to get started.\n\n❌ **The Problem**\n\nToday’s coding agents - like Codex, Claude Code, and Devin - excel at small, well-defined tasks. Their autonomous design works best for jobs that need little clarification, such as updating libraries or making simple UI edits.\n\nBut full autonomy becomes a weakness for open-ended work like building new features or products. These agents often press ahead despite unclear or conflicting requirements - and even when they succeed, the resulting code may be hard for teams to understand.\n\nGood engineers know to clarify requirements before coding, check in with product owners to confirm goals, and collaborate with peers to ensure quality. Coding agents should do the same.\n\n🚀 **How Compyle solves this**\n\nCompyle keeps you in full control through a question-driven approach. You describe the task, then Compyle asks questions until it understands what you want to build. It produces research and planning artifacts before writing any code.\n\nDuring implementation, Compyle validates its changes against your decisions. If something doesn't match up, it stops and asks rather than pushing forward. You stay in the driver's seat the entire time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94565\u0026key=user_uploads/2234809/82738600-0f9c-4de5-ab79-57f7cb4424bb)\n\n\n**Our story**\n\nBefore Compyle, we were building SmartAppetite (AI agents for insurance). Using tools like Claude Code and Cursor, we had a demo in days - then spent weeks cleaning up a codebase we no longer fully understood.\n\nWe had to pause feature development just to refactor. That pain is why we built Compyle.","slug":"ObF-compyle-lovable-for-software-engineers","created_at":"2025-10-10T21:28:16.037Z","updated_at":"2026-05-06T15:04:53.630Z","total_vote_count":38,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ObF-compyle-lovable-for-software-engineers","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=94565\u0026key=user_uploads/2234809/82738600-0f9c-4de5-ab79-57f7cb4424bb","company":{"id":30921,"name":"Compyle","slug":"compyle","url":"https://compyle.ai","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d64e6601db5d659b1726d0d5ea126494391f5f62.png","batch":"Fall 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Developer Tools","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30921"}}