Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud

Engineers are buzzing over Broccoli, a new open‑source “AI teammate” that promises to turn Linear task tickets into real, reviewable code changes — while you snooze. It’s self‑hosted on your Google Cloud, meaning your data and keys stay with you, and it even auto‑reviews code with Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex. Translation for the non‑devs: Linear is a to‑do app for developers, a PR is a proposed code change, and this bot claims to do the boring bits.

The comments lit up fast. One camp is loving the OSS + self‑host angle and the surprisingly detailed setup (“finally, not a toy!”), while another camp is chanting “Jira when?” like they’re outside a stadium. A dev running a similar Jira workflow confessed their bot stalls at planning and vowed to steal ideas to “take it to the next level.” Meanwhile, a sharp question cut through the hype: if Linear already has Codex tools, how is Broccoli different? That sparked a mini‑debate about owning prompts and infrastructure versus using built‑ins.

Then came the speed skeptics. A veteran warned that earlier versions of this idea had painful lag — “time to first token was slow” and multi‑repo changes took 30+ minutes — the kind of delay that kills the magic. The thread mixed earnest praise with veggie jokes (“eat greens, ship PRs”), but the tension is clear: if Broccoli is fast and truly private, it’s a win; if not, it’s just salad dressing.