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> Entire, backed by a $60 million
This is the point of that post and helpfully it was added at the top in a TL;dr and was half of that t sentence TL;dr. Will succeed or not? Well, that's a coin toss, always been.
Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
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Of the thousands, a handful will prevail. Most of it is vaporware, just like in any boom. Every single industry has this problem; copy-cats, fakes & frauds.
"Buy my fancy oil for your coal shovel and the coal will turn into gold. If you pay for premium, you don't have to shovel yourself."
If everything goes right, there won't be a coal mine needed.
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I do not think that's how it worked out for GitHub: I'd rather say that Git (as complex as it was to use) succeeded due to becoming the basis of GitHub (with simple, clean interface). At the time, there were multiple code hosting platforms like Sourceforge, FSF Savannah, Canonical's Launchpad.net, and most development was still done in SVN, with Git, Bazaar, Mercurial the upstart "distributed" VCSes with similar pene…
Yes to all that. And GitLab the company was only founded in 2014 (OSS project started in 2011) and ran through YC in 2015, seven years after GitHub launched.
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I mean, pretty much all big startups begin as "niche" things that people might care about later. Tesla, Airbnb, Twitch... and countless failures too. It's just how the game is.
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#425Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the valuation that is wild to me (I think the idea itself has merit). But these are the new economics. I can only say "that's wild" enough before it is in fact no longer wild.
These aren't new economics, it's just VC funds trying to boost their holdings by saying it's worth X because they said so. Frankly the FTC should make it illegal.
That's not how it works at all. Why stop at $300M, why didn't they just say $1BN out the gate?
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Nothing about the parent comment suggests AI, except the em dash, but that's just a regular old punctuation that predates AI.
How much experience do you have interacting with LLM generated prose? The comment I replied to sets off so many red flags that I would be willing to stake a lot on it being completely LLM generated. It's not just the em dashes - its the cadence, tone and structure of the whole comment.
Yeah it's really frustrating how often I see kneejerk rebuttals assuming others are solely basing it on presence of em-dashes. That's usually a secondary data point. The obvious tells are more often structure/cadence as you say and by far most importantly: a clear pattern of repeated similar "AI smell" comments in their history that make it 100% obvious.
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> HN threads confidently asserting I have never seen any thread that unanimously asserts this. Even if they do, having HN/reddit asserting something as evidence is wrong way to look at things.
HN is full of AI agents hype posts. I am yet to see legitimate and functional agent orchestration solving real problems, whether it is scale or velocity.
HN is full of anti hype posts as well. If I were to estimate there are more posts of anti hype than of hype.
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#428> 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.
What kind of barrier/moat/network effects/etc would prevent someone with a Claude Code subscription from replicating whatever "innovation" is so uniquely valuable here? It's somewhat strange to regularly read HN threads confidently asserting that the cost of software is trending towards zero and software engineering as a profession is dead, but also that an AI dev tool that basically hooks onto Git/Claude Code/termin…
If they had wanted a moat for this part of their offering, they wouldn’t have open-sourced it.
This is not their offering, this is a tool to raise interest.
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Sure... you `git add` the context text generated by AI and `git commit` it, could be useful. Is that worth 60 million?
They raised 60 million. The investors think it’s worth 600M+
That is where I’m shocked being in a position of raising for a startup myself, what was in their pitch deck/data room that convinced them of this valuation? Or is it due to the founders reputation and not the substance?
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Sure... you `git add` the context text generated by AI and `git commit` it, could be useful. Is that worth 60 million?
It's funny how HN'ers frequently judge ideas based on complexity of implementation, not value. I still remember the reaction when Dropbox was created: " It's just file sharing; I can build my own with FTP. What value could it possibly create ".
Dropbox value was instantly recognizable, but I feel I have zero use for Entire.