Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
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Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#112Oh 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…
I wouldn't wanna be in the rat race myself, but I know people who salivate at the opportunity to create some popular dev tool to get acquired by MS, Google or Amazon or whichever of the big tech companies that decide this could work well in their cloud ecosystem.
On the one hand they think these things provide 1337x productivity gains, can be run autonomously, and will one day lead to "the first 1 person billion dollar company".
And in complete cognitive dissonance also somehow still have fantasies of future 'acquisition' by their oppressors.
Why acquire your trash dev tool?
They'll just have the agents copy it. Hell, you could even outright steal it, because apparently laundering any licensing issues through LLMs short circuits the brains of judges to protohuman clacking rocks together levels.
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#113Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#114> Spec-driven development is becoming the primary driver of code generation. This sounds like my current "phase" of AI coding. I have had so many project ideas for years that I can just spec out, everything I've thought about, all the little ideas and details, things I only had time to think about, never implement. I then feed it to Claude, and watch it meet my every specification, I can then test it, note any bugs,…
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#115We 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...
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#116Really struggling to figure out what this is at a glance. Buried in the text is this line which I think is the tl;dr: "As a result, every change can now be traced back not only to a diff, but to the reasoning that produced it." This is a good idea, but I just don't see how you build an entire platform around this. This feels like a feature that should be added to GitHub. Something to see in the existing PR workflow.…
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#117Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#118Really hope that unlike GitHub it'll be open source
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#119I see zero reason for a person to care about the checkpoints.
And for agents, full sessions just needlessly fill context.
So not sure what is being solved by this.
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#120> 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 ` `.