Show HN: Methadone – Sieze the means of production from our agentic overlords

Category: devtools

Tags: ai-coding-assistants, nix, babashka, productivity, behavioral-design

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 6, Documentation: 8, Utility: 3)

Methadone is a Clojure/Babashka wrapper for AI coding assistants that imposes a start-up delay proportional to recent usage, aiming to reduce dependency and alienation. It uses an exponential decay model over session launches and durations, feeding a logistic curve to bound friction, and works by shadowing binaries on PATH.

Target audience: developers concerned about AI overreliance, NixOS users, productivity enthusiasts

Repository: https://github.com/Xophmeister/methadone · Clojure · GPL-3.0 · 4 stars

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