My friend and I have worked at a number of BI companies and thought: Can’t a coding agent do most of this now?
Almost. They just need a context/semantic layer to ensure query correctness and some kind of artifact for publishing findings and visualizations.
We built an open source project called Graphene that provides these tools:
- Semantic layer that’s more token-efficient than YAML, more deterministic than Markdown (eg, composable, callable metric macros), with a query API that’s well in-distribution (SQL). - MDX-like files for dashboards (Markdown with inlined SQL + HTML components for viz with support for CSS and Javascript) - Connects to popular data warehouses or local DuckDB
Your coding agent will build really in-depth reports and can ofc leverage any other skills or context that you've made available to it. We dogfood it inside a monorepo with our website, app source code, planning docs, etc so the agent has access to a ton of context. It’s also nice that the agent can add instrumentation, adjust pipelines and transformations, and add dashboards all in one PR.
If you want to try it out, just point your coding agent at https://github.com/graphene-data/graphene/blob/main/docs/set... and ask it to set up Graphene.
If you don’t have data to play with, you can clone our example project:
1. `git clone <https://github.com/graphene-data/example-flights.git`> 2. `cd example-flights && npm install`
Would love any/all feedback!
I kept thinking about how a lot of us have to be online to do our work each day. It is not uncommon to have other open tabs with social media, games, or whatever. Why not turn your current page, whatever site you are on, into a game?
So I built DOM-defense. Once you click play on the current tab and it overlays a tower-defense game on that page. The path snakes its way through the pages hyperlinks. You place towers in the empty space. Enemies march alont the path and if they break the last blockade, you lose. Survive 100 waves and you win.
A couple of details that mattered to me while building it:
Variety - Every page is a different map (news, docs, Wikipedia, whatever). You are not confined to set levels. Every site is different so it naturally creates infinite variety
Work within a users current flow - Instead of opening other tabs or another site, I wanted a user to not have to "go outside" of their normal workflow
Difficulty/Fun factor - I spent some time tuning it to make it difficult, but beatable. Finding the balance is difficult when a user can literally play it on any site
It’s free on the Chrome Web Store:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dom-defense/bglbhkd...
Curious what pages break it hardest, or what would make the loop more fun. Happy to answer any questions too.
by meerita ·
What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?