Show HN: Built a personality that lives across CLI, browser, and web –> all solo

Category: devtools

Tags: code-review, ai-tooling, cli, mcp-server, developer-productivity

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 5, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Cynical Sally is a personality-driven AI code review tool that provides brutally honest feedback via CLI, IDE integration (as an MCP server), and web. It's interesting because it packages multiple code analysis functions (explain, refactor, PR review, brainstorming) under a consistent, opinionated persona, targeting developers tired of overly polite AI assistants.

Target audience: backend devs, frontend devs, full-stack devs

Repository: https://github.com/w1ckedxt/cynicalsally-cli · TypeScript · MIT · 8 stars

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