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

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post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is about doing it seamlessly and flawlessly then sharing it across a team.

So using something like the compound engineering plugin and committing its "brainstorms", plans, and "solutions"?

No, it's not. I can't get leadership's buyin on a Claude Plugin.

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

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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…

> Once you have multiple agents across multiple sessions generating code in production, you hit the same observability problems every other distributed system hits: tracing, attribution, debugging failures across runs.

This has been the story for every trend empowering developers since year dot. Look back and you can find exactly the same said about CD, public cloud, containers, the works. The 'orchestration' (read compliance) layers always get routed around. Always.

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

#323

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…

You're absolutely right! It's not the tooling, it's the platform.

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

#324

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…

@dang with the launch of open claw I have seen so much more LLM slop comments. I know meta comments like mine aren't usually encouraged, but I think we need to do something about this as a community. Is there anything we can do? (either ban or at least requiring full disclosure for bot comments would be nice). EDIT: I suspect the current "solution" is to just downvote (which I do!), but I think people who don't chat…

It's the dead internet theory in action. Every time I see slop I comment on it. I've found people don't always like it when you comment on it.

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

#325
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.

Just saw a Discord-weekend take on reddit! Haha. Guy was saying he could create it in a day and then self-host it on his servers so that he doesn't have to put Nitro ads on top of it

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

#326

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…

@dang with the launch of open claw I have seen so much more LLM slop comments. I know meta comments like mine aren't usually encouraged, but I think we need to do something about this as a community. Is there anything we can do? (either ban or at least requiring full disclosure for bot comments would be nice). EDIT: I suspect the current "solution" is to just downvote (which I do!), but I think people who don't chat…

Parent comment has the rhythm of an AI comment. Caught myself not realizing it until you mentioned it. Seems like I am more in tune with LLM slop on twitter, which is usually much worse. But on second sight it's clear and it also shows the comment as having no stance, and very generic.

@dang I would welcome a small secondary button that one can vote on to community-driven mark a comment as AI, just so we know.

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

#327

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…

It's not this, it's that?

A. B isn't C—it's D1.

E. But F, G: H1, H2...

I. J—but D2 seems K.

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

#328

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…

That is a sharp observation———it is the observability that matters! The question arises: Who observes the observers? Would you like me to create MetaEntire.ai———an agentic platform that observes Entire.io?

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

#329
I landed on a similar vision last year. The more I thought about it, the moat felt fragile. GitHub or GitLab could build the same capabilities and become a natural extension of what teams already use. That said, it addresses a real problem, and the SDLC needs to evolve.

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

#330

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…

@dang with the launch of open claw I have seen so much more LLM slop comments. I know meta comments like mine aren't usually encouraged, but I think we need to do something about this as a community. Is there anything we can do? (either ban or at least requiring full disclosure for bot comments would be nice). EDIT: I suspect the current "solution" is to just downvote (which I do!), but I think people who don't chat…

Nothing about the parent comment suggests AI, except the em dash, but that's just a regular old punctuation that predates AI.
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