Sometimes the best feature of a developer tool is knowing when to stop taking itself seriously.

The Tool

I built bruh — a lightweight developer assistant that runs in your terminal. Think of it as a junior dev who:

• Executes shell commands

• Reads and writes files

• Maintains context across a conversation

• Doesn’t judge your 3am code

It uses Claude via fluency.js (unified LLM interface, because vendor lock-in is for email addresses, not AI models).

The Journey

Original name: dyad-agent Philosophy: Clean, professional, technically descriptive

Current name: bruh Philosophy: It’s 2026. We’re all tired. Let’s be real.

The rename happened mid-development when someone suggested it as a joke, and I realized: developer tools don’t need to sound like enterprise software. They need to sound like the conversations developers actually have.

npm install -g bruh bruh "help me debug this webpack config" That’s it. No dyad-agent init --config ceremony. Just bruh and a problem.

What Makes It Different

1. Actually lightweight

• One dependency: fluency.js

• ~200 lines of core logic

• No bloated framework baggage

2. Bring your own model

• Works with Claude, GPT, Gemini, whatever

• No hardcoded vendor assumptions

• You control the keys and the costs

3. Context that doesn’t suck

• Sliding window memory management

• Automatic token estimation

• Won’t blow your budget on ancient conversation history

4. Test coverage that exists

• 66 tests (17 for agent, 24 for context, 25 for tools)

• Vitest because life’s too short for Jest’s ESM quirks

• npm test actually passes

The Real Lesson

Building tools for developers is weird because you are the user. Every frustration you feel building it is a feature you need to fix.

If configuring your tool requires reading docs, the docs aren’t the problem — the tool is.

If running your tool feels like a chore, you’ve already failed.

If naming your tool makes you smile, you might be onto something.

Try It

npm install -g bruh export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your-key" bruh "what's the weather like?" More serious documentation exists, despite the name.

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Built with Claude. Tested with Vitest. Named with zero regrets.