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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 vasachi »

lubujackson wrote: post #394
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.

Wow, read through the comments and you weren't joking. I attribute this to crossroads of "this release is v0.1 of what we are building" and the HN crowd who have been scrolling past 120 AI frameworks and hot takes daily and have no patience for anything that isn't immediately 100% useful to them in the moment. I find the framing of the problem to be very accurate, which is very encouraging. People saying "I can roll…

Didn’t Juicero get more than a $100M? Do you think they had a clear plan? How much did Rome get? Did they have a clear plan?

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Post by shakna »

loveparade wrote: post #447
chenmx wrote: post #393

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I don't think your Github example is accurate. The vast majority of developers started using git after Github became a thing. They may have used svn or another type of collaboration system before, but not git. And the main reason they started using git is because Github was such massive value on top of git, not because git was so amazing.

Git had already replaced perforce and svn most everywhere I'd seen, before GitHub came along. CVS was still horrible and in a lot, though.

I mean, git was '05 and GitHub was '08, so not like the stats will say much one way or another. StackOverflow only added it their survey in 2015. No source of truth, only anecdotes.

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

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Post by auggierose »

jwbron wrote: post #414
toraway wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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You cannot test your software without Claude Code?

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

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Post by hansmayer »

chenmx wrote: post #393

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It seems at this point, everyone and their mother, i.e. "We", are building the "tools" for which "we" mostly hope that the VC money will materialise. Use-cases are not important - if OpenAI can essentially work with Monopolly money, whey can´t "we" do it too?

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Post by asfafwewfad »

loveparade wrote: post #447
chenmx wrote: post #393

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I don't think your Github example is accurate. The vast majority of developers started using git after Github became a thing. They may have used svn or another type of collaboration system before, but not git. And the main reason they started using git is because Github was such massive value on top of git, not because git was so amazing.

I have to hard disagree on that. I know of many developers personally who were on Source Forge and Google Code before and migrated to GitHub specifically because they offered git

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Post by LeafItAlone »

jwbron wrote: post #414
toraway wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

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>what's the value of paying someone for a product like this vs just building it myself?

Same thing it’s always been. Convenience. Including maintenance costs. AI tools have lowered the bar significantly on some things, so SaaS offerings will need to be better, but I don’t want to reinvent every wheel. I want to build the thing I want to build, not the things to build that.

Just like I go to restaurants instead of making every meal myself.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

hansmayer wrote: post #454
chenmx wrote: post #393

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It seems at this point, everyone and their mother, i.e. "We", are building the "tools" for which "we" mostly hope that the VC money will materialise. Use-cases are not important - if OpenAI can essentially work with Monopolly money, whey can´t "we" do it too?

> if OpenAI can essentially work with Monopolly money, whey can´t "we" do it too?

The answer is, in case anyone wonders: because OpenAI is providing a general purpose tool that has potential to subsume most of the software industry; "We" are merely setting up toll gates around what will ultimately become a bunch of tools for LLM, and trying to pass it off as a "product".

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