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

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 5:35 PM UTC

ashtom wrote: post #56

rgxsh wrote: post #51

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.

Post by eddythompson80 » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 5:38 PM UTC

asim wrote: post #22

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…

Post by milar » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

ashtom wrote: post #44

m-hodges wrote: post #43

There have been so many GitHub CEOs I was excited to find out which one.

Only four: Chris, Tom, Nat, and Thomas. Last one is me. ;)

Post by svarlamov » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 5:47 PM UTC

Post by jtokoph » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 5:50 PM UTC

jahsome wrote: post #47

stack_framer wrote: post #35

We went from having new JavaScript frameworks every week to having new AI frameworks every week. I'm thinking I should build a HN clone that filters out all posts about AI topics...

I've long wished for a 'filter' feature for the hn feed -- namely the old trend of web3 slop -- but with little else than keywords to filter, it would likely be tedious and inaccurate. Ironically, I think with AI/LLMs it could be a little easier to analyze.