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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

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Post by malfist »

aspenmartin wrote: post #154
malfist wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 n…

So you admit that AI isn't in every software, and yet somehow I'm the one in denial?

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

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Post by carshodev »

I don't understand how this is different from giving an agent access to github logs? The landing page is terrible at explaining what it does.I guess they are just storing context in git aswell?

So is this just a few context.md files that you tell the agent to update as you work and then push it when you are done???

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ibejoeb wrote: post #157
mohsen1 wrote: post #131

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

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Post by aspenmartin »

malfist wrote: post #161
aspenmartin wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 n…

So you admit that AI isn't in every software, and yet somehow I'm the one in denial?

Im saying you’re missing the point and the spirit of the argument. Yes, you are right, voyager doesn’t use agentic AI! I don’t even think the other examples you used are as agentic free as you think. They may or may not be! What’s the point you want to make?

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

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Post by nickorlow »

aspenmartin wrote: post #158
metamet wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 at…

I've found that the effort required to get a good outcome is roughly equal to the effort of doing it myself.

If I do it myself, I get the added bonus of actually understanding what the code is doing, which makes debugging any issues down the line way easier. It's also in generally better for teams b/c you can ask the 'owner' of a part of the codebase what their intuition is on an issue (trying to have AI fill in for this purpose has been underwhelming for me so far).

Trying to maintain a vibecoded codebase essentially involves spelunking though a non-familliar codebase every time manual action is needed to fix an issue (including reviewing/verifying the output of an AI tool's fix for the issue).

(For small/pinpointed things, it has been very good. e.g.: write a python script to comb through this CSV and print x details about it/turn this into a dashboard)

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

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Post by duttish »

andyhedges wrote: post #141
ibejoeb wrote: post #130

>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…

Very similar for me. I have a plans folder in my root where I store the plans while they're either under improvement or under implementation. Once they're done they're moved into the plans/old folder. So far it's worked great. It's a couple of manual steps extra but very helpful record.

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

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Post by cyanydeez »

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...

Or, you could perform a public service by creating a HN clone only for bots and try to convince the bots trolling here to go there.
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