Claude/Gemini/Codex 10-100x faster with pandō (CAD for code)
Hi HN, I'm George Ciobanu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgeciobanunyc). I built pandō ('CAD for code') because I got tired of watching AI agents burn tokens, take forever, and still get it wrong. Here's (one reason) why this happens: AI agents read and edit code as if it's just text. But code is more, much more: it has structure, syntax, relationships, and meaning. Code is Data We built pandō around this insight. It indexes and persists your code's AST in a database, which gives AI agents instant search results, and enforces syntactically correct edits. Here's a full…
Claude/Gemini/Codex 10-100x faster with pandō (CAD for code) launched on February 26, 2026 with 11 votes, #985 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Pandō is a development tool that helps AI agents edit code more efficiently by treating code as structured data rather than plain text. It indexes code's abstract syntax tree in a database, enabling faster searches and enforcing syntactically correct edits. The platform automatically snapshots changes for safety and prevents syntax errors through compiler-checked modifications. It is designed for developers using AI agents to accelerate code generation and editing tasks.
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From the sources
pandō is a structural code transformation tool that operates on your code's AST, not text. Vibe freely. Architect precisely — with compiler-backed precision.
A code firewall for AI coding agents. Your agent works on the graph — handles, signatures, structure. Your existing source stays on your machine. Keep the frontier model; lose the exposure. Free for personal use.
Your agent shipped your whole codebase to a model — to rename one function. Your code already lives as a graph — symbols, imports, types, call paths. To change it, the model doesn’t need the text. It needs the structure: a handle, a signature, a count. pandō hands the model that structure and applies the edits locally. You keep the frontier model — Claude, Codex, whatever wins next month — and your existing source mostly never crosses the wire. They promise not to look. pandō makes sure there’s nothing to see . Ask an agent to rename one function. It greps. It reads the file. It reads the neighbors. Your proprietary logic is now in someone else’s…from getpando.ai
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN, I'm George Ciobanu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgeciobanunyc). I built pandō ('CAD for code') because I got tired of watching AI agents burn tokens, take forever, and still get it wrong. Here's (one reason) why this happens: AI agents read and edit code as if it's just text. But code is…
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