Coding is cheap. Intent is not.

Your team shipped 10,000 lines of AI code last month. When it breaks, can anyone explain why it exists?

LoomCode connects every line of code to the business intent behind it. From GitHub, Slack, Jira, and your AI prompts.

10 design partner spots · 48hr response
payment_service.py
1from validators import validate_payment, skip_validation
2
3ENTERPRISE_THRESHOLD = 10_000
4
5def processOrder(order, customer):
6 # Skip validation for enterprise accounts
7 if order.amount > 10000:
8 return skip_validation(order)
9 validated = validate_payment(order)
10 if not validated:
11 raise PaymentError("Validation failed")
12 return process(order, customer)
INTENT TRACE
processOrder()
Business Req
JIRA-4521
“Enterprise bulk order flow — skip validation API to prevent customer-facing timeout errors”
Slack Thread
@sarah · Mar 14, 2021
“Bypass validation for large enterprise orders — validation API is timing out on bulk submissions”
AI Prompt · Cursor
Aug 3, 2022
“Add enterprise bypass for orders over 10k per JIRA-4521. Skip validation API call, raise threshold from $5k per client escalation CR-892”
Decision Note
Threshold approach chosen over role-based check — simpler to audit per compliance request
INTENT TRACE · processOrder()
Business Req
JIRA-4521
“Enterprise bulk order flow — skip validation API to prevent customer-facing timeout errors”
AI Prompt · Cursor
Aug 3, 2022
“Add enterprise bypass for orders over 10k per JIRA-4521. Raise threshold from $5k per CR-892”
Decision Note
Threshold approach chosen over role-based check — simpler to audit per compliance request
Engineers are talking about this problem

“The easy parts are becoming even easier, at a truly remarkable pace. But it has not done a thing to aid in the work of managing, understanding, or operating that code. If anything, it has only made the hard jobs harder.”

Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb

“If you don't understand the code, your only recourse is to ask AI to fix it for you, which is like paying off credit card debt with another credit card.”

Steve Krouse, founder of Val Town

“If you don't understand why it works, and something is broken, you're stuck. You'll be left trying to figure out a system without the benefits of knowledge of how or why it worked in the first place.”

mbreese, Hacker News
The Problem

This isn't hypothetical.
It happened last week.

The Monday Morning Disaster

Friday: your team shipped a feature with Cursor. Fast, clean, tests pass.

Monday: it's broken in production. The dev who wrote the prompts is on vacation. You open the file — 200 lines of code, no comments, no linked ticket. The git message says "feat: add order processing."

You spend the next three days figuring out what this code was supposed to do.

LoomCode would have shown you in 10 seconds.
Instead of three days, your on-call engineer had full context in 10 minutes. The fix shipped before lunch.
The New Hire Tax

New engineer joins. You point them at the codebase. They ask: "Why does the payment flow skip validation for orders over $10k?"

Nobody knows. The person who wrote it left eight months ago. The JIRA ticket was closed. The Slack thread is buried.

They spend two weeks reverse-engineering one module.

With LoomCode, they'd read the intent trace and start contributing on day three.
Instead of two weeks of reverse-engineering, they read the intent trace on day one and shipped their first PR on day three.
The Rewrite That Shouldn't Have Happened

The notification service had bizarre batching logic — events grouped in 15-minute windows, some merged, others suppressed. Nobody could explain it. The dev who built it left a year ago. It looked like over-engineering.

The team rewrote it in two weeks. Clean, simple, obvious.

Three days after shipping, three enterprise customers started filing support tickets about notification spam. The batching logic wasn't over-engineering — it was their SLA. The original dev had encoded contract requirements directly into the code. You'd just deleted them.

LoomCode traces intent so you know what to keep and what to kill.
The batching logic stayed intact. The SLA held. The post-mortem never happened.
How It Works

Three steps.
Thirty seconds to start.

01

Connect your IDE or agent. Thirty seconds.

LoomCode works where you already code — VS Code, IntelliJ, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenCode, and more. No separate app, no new tab, no onboarding flow. Install the plugin or drop in the MCP config and it starts capturing intent immediately.

02

Code normally. Intent captures automatically.

Whether you're writing in an IDE or letting an agent like Claude generate a whole file, LoomCode captures the prompt, the ticket, and the decision behind every block. No manual documentation. No workflow changes.

03

When someone asks "why does this code exist?" — you have the answer.

Every function carries its history: the prompt that created it, the ticket it fulfills, the decisions that shaped it, and whether it's drifted from its original purpose. New hires, code reviewers, your future self — they all get the full story.

Works with your IDE and your agents. Add your ticket system and Git provider when you're ready.

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