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Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

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The founder has only forked repositories on GitHub that are sort of light web development related.

His use of bombastic language in this announcement suggests that he has never personally worked on serious software. The deterioration of GitHub under his tenure is not confidence inspiring either, but that of course may have been dictated by Nadella.

If you are very generous, this is just another GitHub competitor dressed up in AI B.S. in order to get funding.

Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

#52

> The game has changed. The system is cracking. Just say what your thing does. Or, better yet, show it to me in under 60 seconds. Web sites are the new banner ads and headings like that are the new ` `.

It is not the system that is on crack ...

Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

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Oh man I'm tired. This reminds me of the docker era. It's all moving fast. Everyone's raising money. And 24 months from now it's all consolidating. It's all a nice hype game when you raise the funding but the execution depends on people finding value in your products and tools. I would argue yes many of these things are useful but I'd also argue there's far too much overlap, too many unknowns and too many people tryi…

What if it's just the beginning of something bigger?

What if the earth exploded tomorrow? Who cares about what if.

Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

#54
I don't see how we need a brand new paradigm just because LLMs evidently suck at sharing context in their Git commits. The rules for good commits still apply in The New Age. Git is still good enough, LLMs (i.e. their developer handlers) just need to leverage it.

Personally, I don't let LLMs commit directly. I git add -p and write my own commit messages -- with additional context where required -- because at the end of the day, I'm responsible for the code. If something's unclear or lacks context, it's my fault, not the robot's.

But I would like to see a better GitHub, so maybe they will end up there.

Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

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Oh man I'm tired. This reminds me of the docker era. It's all moving fast. Everyone's raising money. And 24 months from now it's all consolidating. It's all a nice hype game when you raise the funding but the execution depends on people finding value in your products and tools. I would argue yes many of these things are useful but I'd also argue there's far too much overlap, too many unknowns and too many people tryi…

Let the cambrian explosion run its course but let's hope the meteorite doesn't kill us all.

Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

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The founder has only forked repositories on GitHub that are sort of light web development related. His use of bombastic language in this announcement suggests that he has never personally worked on serious software. The deterioration of GitHub under his tenure is not confidence inspiring either, but that of course may have been dictated by Nadella. If you are very generous, this is just another GitHub competitor dres…

Founder here. I built commercial insurance software for Windows 95 in the 1990s, driver assistant systems at Mercedes and at Bosch in the early 2000s, dozens of iPhone apps as contractor, a startup called HockeyApp (acquired by Microsoft), and various smaller projects, mostly in Ruby on Rails. And of course, when I left Microsoft & GitHub, 10 years of green boxes were removed from my GitHub profile.

Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

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There is also Git AI: https://github.com/git-ai-project/git-ai https://usegitai.com/

love the shout but git-ai is decidedly not trying to replace the SCMs. there are teams building code review tools (commercial and internal) on top of the standard and I don't think it'll be long before GitHub, GitLab and the usual suspects start supporting it since folks the community have already been hacking it into Chrome extensions - this one got play on HN last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871473

Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

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Essentially all software is augmented with agentic development now, or if not, built with technology or on platforms that is It's like complaining about the availability of the printing press because it proliferated tabloid production, while preferring beautifully hand-crafted tomes. It's reactively trendy to hate on it because of the vulgar production it enables and to elevate the artisanal extremes that escape its…

It's really not as integral as you make it sound. If I make one PR on a widely used open source tool with a small fix, is most software development augmented by me?

Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents

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The CLI is open source, everyone can use it and it does work with git only. So, no separate platform needed. The platform only provides convenience to view checkpoints at the moment. However you can also view them in the CLI. It's here https://github.com/entireio/cli
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