Show HN: Sixwhyo – A 6-year-old code reviewer who asks "why?" about everything

Category: devtools

Tags: code-review, ai-assistant, simplicity

Score: 4.3/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 3, Documentation: 6, Utility: 4)

Sixwhyo is a code review skill for AI coding assistants like OpenCode that adds a 6-year-old persona relentlessly asking 'why?' to flag over-engineering and unnecessary complexity. It's interesting because it uses a child-like perspective to promote simplicity and readability in code, turning a common anti-pattern detector into a playful tool.

Target audience: backend devs

Repository: https://github.com/hxii/sixwhyo · MIT

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