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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 nihonde »

baby wrote: post #278
nihonde wrote: post #275

Feature plans generated by agents are often transient documents that fall away once the plan is executed. Ideally, that artifact would be preserved alongside the implementation. My experience is that Cursor's reliance on VS Code's clunky panel-based UI and jack-of-all-trades harness is holding it back. Likewise, Claude Code shoe-horning a GUI into a TUI and perma-binding to a single model family is not the ideal end-…

Why do you want to preserve that artifact?

If you don't have a record of questions asked/answered and rationale for decisions taken, I've noticed it's easy for subsequent feature plans to clash. Maintaining a line of consistency across each feature plan is a good thing.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

nialv7 wrote: post #254
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.

Sure... you `git add` the context text generated by AI and `git commit` it, could be useful. Is that worth 60 million?

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

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Post by Aeolun »

woah wrote: post #280

I have an agent write a file with this template each run: ```markdown # Run NNNN ## First Impressions [What state is the project in? What did the last agent leave?] ## Plan [What will you work on this iteration? Why?] ## Work Log [Fill this in as you work] ## Discoveries [What did you learn? What surprised you? What should the next agent know?] ## Summary [Fill this in before committing] ``` This is surprisingly effe…

I have CURRENT_TASK.md that does more or less the same thing. It also gets committed to git. So I guess that’s entire? Wish I’d realized I was sitting on a 60M idea…

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

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Post by sothatsit »

Aeolun wrote: post #289
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.

This is literally what claude code already does minus the commit attachment. It’s just very fancy marketing speak for the exact same thing. I’m happy to believe maybe they’ll make something useful with 60M (quite a lot for a seed round though), but Maybe not get all lyrical about what they have now.

Claude Code captures this locally, not in version control alongside commits.

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

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Post by Aeolun »

willmarquis wrote: post #288

The thread is missing the forest for the trees. The interesting bet here isn't git checkpoints—it's that someone is finally building the observability layer for agent-generated code. Most agent frameworks (LangChain, Swarm, etc.) obsessed over orchestration. But the actual pain point isn't "how do I chain prompts"—it's "what did the agent do, why, and how do I audit/reproduce it?" The markdown-files-in-git crowd is r…

Ok, I’ll grant you that if they can get agents to somehow connect to other’s reasoning in realtime that would be useful. Right now it’s me that has to play reasoning container.

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

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Post by buildbuildbuild »

nialv7 wrote: post #254
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.

Sure... you `git add` the context text generated by AI and `git commit` it, could be useful. Is that worth 60 million?

The unannounced web collaboration platform in-progress might be.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

nialv7 wrote: post #254
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.

Sure... you `git add` the context text generated by AI and `git commit` it, could be useful. Is that worth 60 million?

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

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Post by satvikpendem »

Klonoar wrote: post #261
nialv7 wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure... you `git add` the context text generated by AI and `git commit` it, could be useful. Is that worth 60 million?

It’s good to know that a few decades later the same generic Dropbox-weekend take can be made.

Survivorship bias. How many failed and commenters were right?
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