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Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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mccoyb wrote: post #19

Here's my question: if agents continue to get better with RL, what is future proof about this environment or UI? I think we all know that managing 5-10 agents ... is not pretty. Are we really landing good PRs with 100% cognitive focus from 5-10 agents? Chances are, I'm making mistakes (and I assume other humans are too)? Why not 1 agent managing 5-10 agents for you? And so on? Most of the development loop is in bash…

Interesting thoughts - thank you! And directionally agree - given that agents are becoming ever better, they'll take more and more of the orchestration on themselves. Still, we believe that developers need an interface to interact with these agents; see their status and review / test their work. Emdash is our approach for building this interface of the future - the ADE :)

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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snowhale wrote: post #20

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interesting! hadn't looked into sparse checkout before, but will do now. Initial thoughts are that sparse might be risky if we lose some arbitrary files that might be relevant context for the coding agents. Will look into this!

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by blumomo »

onecommit wrote: post #21
mccoyb wrote: post #19

Here's my question: if agents continue to get better with RL, what is future proof about this environment or UI? I think we all know that managing 5-10 agents ... is not pretty. Are we really landing good PRs with 100% cognitive focus from 5-10 agents? Chances are, I'm making mistakes (and I assume other humans are too)? Why not 1 agent managing 5-10 agents for you? And so on? Most of the development loop is in bash…

Interesting thoughts - thank you! And directionally agree - given that agents are becoming ever better, they'll take more and more of the orchestration on themselves. Still, we believe that developers need an interface to interact with these agents; see their status and review / test their work. Emdash is our approach for building this interface of the future - the ADE :)

> Still, we believe that developers need an interface to interact with these agents;

CLIs like claude code equally improve over time. tmux helps running remote sessions like there were local.

Why should we invest long time into your „ADE“, really?

> see their status and review / test their work

Won’t that be addressed eventually by the CLIs themselves?

Maybe you’re betting on being purchased by one of the agentic coding providers given your tool has long term value on its own?

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by nemooperans »

mccoyb wrote: post #19

Here's my question: if agents continue to get better with RL, what is future proof about this environment or UI? I think we all know that managing 5-10 agents ... is not pretty. Are we really landing good PRs with 100% cognitive focus from 5-10 agents? Chances are, I'm making mistakes (and I assume other humans are too)? Why not 1 agent managing 5-10 agents for you? And so on? Most of the development loop is in bash…

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Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

#27

Post by onecommit »

ttoinou wrote: post #25

So, what's your business model ? Is this an YC product, or a tool you developed while working on a YC product ?

We're figuring our business model out. There're two avenues that we principally think about (1) bundled coding agent subscription and (2)enterprise version with auth, team management, sharing of agent interactions. Admittedly, it's early and this can change. What won't change is that this UI layer for running multiple coding agents is and will be open-source. Emdash itself is funded by YC. Initially developed as a tool while working on another product, but we weren't funded then.

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Post by ttoinou »

onecommit wrote: post #27
ttoinou wrote: post #25

So, what's your business model ? Is this an YC product, or a tool you developed while working on a YC product ?

We're figuring our business model out. There're two avenues that we principally think about (1) bundled coding agent subscription and (2)enterprise version with auth, team management, sharing of agent interactions. Admittedly, it's early and this can change. What won't change is that this UI layer for running multiple coding agents is and will be open-source. Emdash itself is funded by YC. Initially developed as a to…

(2) sounds like a great idea if you can ensure private company data never reaches your servers, with features like remote controlling agents from a central place
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