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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 ttul »

beoberha wrote: post #232

Ignoring the VC economics and awful name, I won’t be as pessimistic as everyone. I see the vision. That said, nobody knows what the AI future looks like. Entire’s entire thesis is a solution for something we don’t even know we need. It’s a massive bet and uphill battle. Traditionally, dev tool success stories come from grassroots projects of developers solving their own problems and not massive VC funded efforts that…

And yet, this is precisely what seed bets are about. You have to try it in order to know whether there is a "there" there.

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Post by BloondAndDoom »

thom wrote: post #126

Either the models are good and this sort of platform gets swept away, or they aren’t, and this sort of platform gets swept away.

This is very well put. I think this platform can be useful but I doubt it can be something as big as the think it will be. At the end of the day it’s just storing some info with your data. I guess they are trying to be the next GitHub (and clearly have the experience :)). I doubt that success can be replicated today with this idea, even with $60 mil to burn

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

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Post by ttul »

parhamn wrote: post #217
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 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.

100%. Day one is to ship the basic capability, which many of us have already vibe-coded... Day two is all the enterprise stuff to make big companies trust AI coding more. That could unlock a lot of revenue. This isn't random at all.

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

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Post by IMTDb »

XorNot wrote: post #190
thom wrote: post #126

Either 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…

That’s true for “tips and tricks” knowledge like “which model is best today” or “tell the model you’ll get fired if the answer is wrong to increase accuracy” that pops up on Twitter/X. It’s fleeting, makes people feel like “experts”, and doesn’t age well.

On the other hand, deeply understanding how models work and where they fall short, how to set up, organize, and maintain context, and which tools and workflows support that tends to last much longer. When something like the “Ralph loop” blows up on social media (and dies just as fast), the interesting question is: what problem was it trying to solve, and how did it do it differently from alternatives? Thinking through those problems is like training a muscle, and that muscle stays useful even as the underlying technology evolves.

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

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Post by ambicapter »

davepeck wrote: post #103
ezekg wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They'll learn soon enough that selling to developers necessitates speaking clearly.

Dohmke never spoke clearly to developers when he was GitHub's CEO.

A CEO is never speaking to developers, he's speaking to other CEOs.

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

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Post by agnosticmantis »

> Checkpoints are a new primitive that automatically captures agent context as first-class, versioned data in Git. When you commit code generated by an agent, Checkpoints capture the full session alongside the commit: the transcript, prompts, files touched, token usage, tool calls and more.

Whether or not useful for agent collaboration, the data here will be more valuable than gold for doing RL training later on.

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

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Post by hoten »

straydusk wrote: post #239

> Checkpoints are a new primitive that automatically captures agent context as first-class, versioned data in Git. When you commit code generated by an agent, Checkpoints capture the full session alongside the commit: the transcript, prompts, files touched, token usage, tool calls and more. This thread is extremely negative - if you can't see the value in this, I don't know what to tell you.

I see the utility in this as an extension to git / source control. But how do VCs make money of it?

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

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Post by konaraddi »

straydusk wrote: post #239

> Checkpoints are a new primitive that automatically captures agent context as first-class, versioned data in Git. When you commit code generated by an agent, Checkpoints capture the full session alongside the commit: the transcript, prompts, files touched, token usage, tool calls and more. This thread is extremely negative - if you can't see the value in this, I don't know what to tell you.

100% agree because there’s a lot of value in understanding how and why past code was written. It can be used to make better decisions faster around code to write in the future.

E.g., if you’ve ever wondered why code was written in a particular way X instead of Y then you’ll have the context to understand whether X is still relevant or if Y can be adopted.

E.g., easier to prompt AI to write the next commit when it knows all the context behind the current/previous commit’s development process.

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