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Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
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#152>CLI to tie agent context into Git on every push. Is this the product? I don't want to jump on the detractor wagon, but I read the post and watched the video, and all I gathered is that it dumps the context into the commit. I already do this.
Isnt this overloading git commits too much ? Like 50kb per commit message
Git is totally fine keeping a few extra text files. These are ephemeral anyway. The working sessions just get squashed down and eliminated by the time I've got something worth saving anyway. At that point, I might keep a overview file around describing what the change does and how it was implemented.
(I will give the agent boom a bit of credit: I write a lot more documentation now, because it's essentially instruction and initial instruction to anything else that works on it. That's a total inversion, and I think it's good.)
The bigger problem is, like others have said, there's no one true flow. I use different agents for different things. I might summarize a lot of reasoning with a cheap model to create a design document, or use a higher reasoning model to sanity check a plan, whatever. It's a lot like programming in English. I don't want my tool to be prescriptive and imposing its technical restrictions on me.
All of that aside: it's impossible that this tool raised $60 million. The problem with this post is that it's supposed to be a hype post about changing the game "entirely" but it doesn't give us a glimpse into whatever we're supposed to by hyped about.
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#153Christ, a $60m seed round. The AI fatigue is real, and the cooling-off period is going to hurt. We’re deep into concept overload now. Every week it’s another tool (don’t get me started on Gas Town) confidently claiming to solve… something. “Faster development”, apparently. Unless you’re already ideologically committed to this space, I don’t see how the average engineer has the energy or motivation to even understand…
> I don’t see how the average engineer has the energy or motivation to even understand these tools, never mind meaningfully compare them
This is why I use the copilot extension in VS code. They seem to just copy whatever useful thing climbs to the surface of the AI tool slop pile. Last week I loaded up and Opus 4.6 was there ready to use. Yesterday I found it has a new Claude tool built in which I used to do some refactoring... it worked fine. It's like having an AI tool curator.
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
What part of Voyager I and Voyager II are "augmented with agentic development?" Surely if all software is augmented with agentic development now, our most important space probes have had their software augmented too, right? What about my blog that I serve static pages on? What about the xray machine my dentist uses? What about the firmware in my toaster? Does the New York Stock Exchange use AI to action stock trades?…
You’re talking about a 1970s satellite? I guess you win the argument?
Blog: I use AI to make and blog developers are using agentic tools
X-ray machine: again a little late here, plus if you want to start dragging in places that likely have a huge amount of beaurocracy I don’t know that that’s very fair
Firmware in your toaster: cmon these are old basic things, if it’s new firmware maybe? But probably not? These are not strong examples
NYSE to action on stock trades; no they don’t use AI to action on stock trades (that would be dumb and slow and horribly inefficient and non-deterministic), but may very well now be using AI to work on the codebase that does
Let’s try to find maybe more impactful examples than small embodied components in toasters and telescopes, 1970s era telescopes that are already past our solar system.
The denial runs deep
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#155>CLI to tie agent context into Git on every push. Is this the product? I don't want to jump on the detractor wagon, but I read the post and watched the video, and all I gathered is that it dumps the context into the commit. I already do this.
I have it (claude, codex) summarise what we've discussed about a design, big change, put it in an MD file and then I correct it, have it re-read it and then do the change. Then later if it goes off piste in another session tell it to re-read the ADDs for x, y and z. If someone could make that process less clunky, that would be great. However it's very much not just funnel every turd uttered in the prompt onto a git b…
Pretty much the same thing. I don't find it to be a burden. Regarding the product, I'm willing to believe I just don't see big picture, but without some peek at the magic, I don't know how much easier this could really be.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Web sites are the new banner ads and headings like that are the new ` `. It's been like this since the Dotcom era Or did you forget that you can do anything at zombo.com? It appears to be rather slow today, but here's a Wiki link for the uninitiated- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com
The domain expired a few days ago and was purchased by someone else and then changed. There's a recreation of the original here https://html5zombo.com/
That's the saddest news I've heard this year.
It's still around, but has been redesigned and it's under "new management". Further proof that the internet is dying.
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#157I am not willing to share my sheepish prompts with my team. Sorry!
Hah. "If it's not too much trouble, would you mind if we disable the rimraf root feature?"
Gotta bully that thing man. There's probably room in the market for a local tool that strips the superfluous niceties from instructions. Probably gonna save a material amount of tokens in aggregate.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Outside of simply not being true, the sentiment of what you're saying isn't much different than: "Essentially all software is augmented with Stack Overflow now, or if not, built with technology or on platforms that is." Agentic development isn't a panacea nor as widespread as you claim. I'd wager that the vast majority of developers treat AI is a more specified search engine to point them in the direction they're loo…
I just cannot fathom how people can say something like this today, agentic tools have now passed an inflection point. People want to point out the short comings and fully ignore that you can now make a fully functioning iPhone app in a day without knowing swift or front end development? That I can at my company do two projects simultaneously, both of them done in about 1/4 the time and one would not have even been attempted before due to the SWE headcount you would have to steal. There are countless examples I have in my own personal projects that just are such an obvious counter example to the moaning “I appreciate the craft” people or “yea this will never work because people still have to read the code” (today sure and this is now made more manageable by good quality agents, tomorrow no. No you won’t need to read code.)
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#159so github ci/cd agents rebranded as a startup? same team different company.
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#160> 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,…
Me too. I've been using spec-kitty [0], a fork of Spec Kit. Quite amazing how a short interview on an idea can produce full documents of requirements, specs, tasks, etc. After a few AI projects, this is my first time using spec driven development, and it is definitely an improvement. [0]: https://github.com/Priivacy-ai/spec-kitty
Nice, I'll check yours out after work, looks pretty polished.