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Doesnt the tooling already exist? i.e. you could use `git notes` to attach agent state as checkpoints to Trees, Commits, Tags etc.
Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
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#212Either the models are good and this sort of platform gets swept away, or they aren’t, and this sort of platform gets swept away.
The most interesting thing about everyone trying to position themselves as AI experts is the futility of it: the technology explicitly promises tomorrows models will be better then todays, which means the skill investment is deflationary: the best time to learn anything is tomorrow when a better model will be better at doing the same work - because you don't need to be (conversely if you're not good at debugging and…
the best time to learn anything is tomorrow when a better model will be better at doing the same work
doesn’t that presume no value is being delivered by current models?
I can understand applying this logic to building a startup that solves today’s ai shortcomings… but value delivered today is still valuable even if it becomes more effective tomorrow.
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#213This guy was the ex-ceo of GitHub and can't bother to communicate his product in a single announcement post?
I am here. What did I not bother with? I wrote the blog post and it has all the details.
Hey, is JJ compatibility in the cards? Considering the blog article hints at a goal of a developerless agent-to-agent automation platform I'm guessing developer conveniences are a side quest rn?
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might wake up in a whole different biome, Rip Van Winkle.
I don't get the pressure. I don't know about you, but my job for a long time has been continually learning new systems. I don't get how so many of my peers fall into this head trip where they think they are gonna get left behind by what amounts to anticipated new features from some SaaS one day. How do you both hold that the technology is so revolutionary because of its productive gains, but at the same time so esote…
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#215Christ, 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…
Your point about the overwhelming proliferation of AI tools and not knowing which are worth any attention and which are trash is very true I feel that a lot today (my solution is basically to just lean into one or two and ask for recommendations on other tools with mixed success). The “I’m so tired of being told we’re in another paradigm shift” comments are widely heard and upvoted on HN and are just so hard to compr…
Yeah, I’m not disputing that AI-assisted engineering is a real shift. It obviously is.
My issue is that we’ve now got a million secondary “paradigm shifts” layered on top: agent frameworks, orchestration patterns, prompt DSLs, eval harnesses, routing, memory, tool calling, “autonomous” workflows… all presented like you’re behind if you’re not constantly replatforming your brain.
Even if the end-state is “engineers code less”, the near-term reality for most engineers is still: deliver software, support customers, handle incidents, and now also become competent evaluators of rapidly changing bot stacks. That cognitive tax is brutal.
So yes, follow where the ball is going. I am. I’m just not pretending the current proliferation is anything other than noisy and expensive to keep up with.
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#216Either the models are good and this sort of platform gets swept away, or they aren’t, and this sort of platform gets swept away.
But think of all the investor dollars between now and then!
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#217>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 already do this.
Hows your ability to get an enterprise to mandate their 5000 employees to use it? That's what most of these types of rounds are about.
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#218disclosure: i run a startup that will most likely be competitive in the future. I welcome more innovation in the code forge space but if you’re looking for an oss alternative just for tracking agent sessions with your commits you should checkout agentblame https://github.com/mesa-dot-dev/agentblame
Entire CEO here. We are going to be building in the open and full stack open source, but great to see alternatives.
Another of your competitors here. It makes me giggle that we're going after the entire developer experience while Entire is only looking at a small corner of it.
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#219Ironically, I was shortly contracting on PoC similar to this for ex github cofunder around this time last year.
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might wake up in a whole different biome, Rip Van Winkle.
I don't get the pressure. I don't know about you, but my job for a long time has been continually learning new systems. I don't get how so many of my peers fall into this head trip where they think they are gonna get left behind by what amounts to anticipated new features from some SaaS one day. How do you both hold that the technology is so revolutionary because of its productive gains, but at the same time so esote…
I'm not scared that my skills will be obsolete, I'm scared employers will think they are. The labor market was already irrational enough as it was.