First time I heard of gitbutler, is this like gitk? If anyone remembers gitk
We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
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Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
#362Bros wanted to work on dev tools. They sold it to VCs as "AI tools" to get easy money. Well played!
Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
#363I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably build a vacuum robot prototype that’ll also clean up all of the kids toys and sort LEGO bricks by colour and size. Parents worldwide would love it. But instead, we get a replacement for Git. And I didn’t even bother to click the link because I’m fine with how Git works. On the list of pain points in my life, “what comes after Git” has…
Your kids need to learn how to clean up after themselves.
All you need is a camera pointing at the floor with image detection... when there's legos on the floor it triggers a video playing that explains how the kids need to pick up the legos. /s
Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
#364I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably build a vacuum robot prototype that’ll also clean up all of the kids toys and sort LEGO bricks by colour and size. Parents worldwide would love it. But instead, we get a replacement for Git. And I didn’t even bother to click the link because I’m fine with how Git works. On the list of pain points in my life, “what comes after Git” has…
> But instead, we get a replacement for Git. And I didn’t even bother to click the link because I’m fine with how Git works. Perhaps you should have. Based on the link it seems like it's more an extension to than replacement for Git. The page is mostly sort of fluffy AI hype, but the concrete bits are things like integrating issue tracking and PR logic in one tool/repo, like e.g. fossil does. Also git proper could us…
Yeah it also sounded to me like they just want to extend git. Zed is trying the exact same thing.
Neither of them is doing to be remotely prepared for what I'm going to do, which is actually replace Git.
Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
#365I failed to see why this would be something that "comes after Git" from a VCS perspective.
The line-based diff(1)/diff3(1)/patch(1) kit often works, and that mindset thrives and gets carried till today. Many toolkits and utilities have been designed to make it more ergonomic, and they are good. Jujutsu is an example. We also have different theories and implementations, some even more algebraically sound like Darcs and Pijul.
But GitHub the Platform is another story, given that they struggled to achieve 90% availability these days.
Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it means parallel branches. Normally in git you can use one branch at a time. With agentic coding you want agents to build multiple features at the same time, each in a separate branch
Can agents not checkout different branches and then work on them? It's what people also do. I have a hard time to understand what problem is even solved here.
Yes, this is the obvious solution. Multiple agents working on multiple features should use feature branches.
Can’t believe how this whole AI movement seems to want to reinvent software engineering, poorly.
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#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
VC by default are founder friendly in my experience. If you find a greedy VC then most likely they are real VC and often gets attracted when your business is not doing great. Reputation travels in this industry therefore people care.
> VC by default are founder friendly in my experience. Founders are only one stakeholder. There are employees ( I think they fall into that category ), customers, suppliers, and the wider society. It all comes back to why does the company exist - and for which stakeholders. I think that's the point the original author is making. I don't buy the argument that making money in the end is a perfect surrogate for overall…
LLMs are major generators of pollution: digital pollution.
I wish the companies understood the tremendous cost to society of polluting our well of knowledge.
But no, as your mention it is free for them to pollute, so they do liberally
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#368Earlier quoted context omitted.
As any DBA worth their salt knows. Index the many valued column, not the column with few discrete values.
Are you sure that's a good strategy if every unique index value requires you to buy a physical container?
How about arithmetic coding? That will give you the highest amount of entropy reduction for any possible number of containers. Which probably means that you’ll sort similar pieces far apart but group by colors that are easy to separate, like red+yellow, brown+green
Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
#369Earlier quoted context omitted.
Money is not given to good ideas (though, it doesn’t hurt). Money is given to friends . If you look at how VC (or really any network) funding circulates, it’s just people who are allowed to enter that circle and money just flows between them constantly. On one hand, you have trusted people who you are willing to give money, on the other hand, this inherently creates a clique. It reminds me how the Bohemian Club’s slo…
The reason “ideas don’t get funding” is usually (but not always) true is that usually a good idea alone doesn’t mean much. So usually you have to have good idea plus something else the investor feels is a proof point or evidence you can execute. The clearest of these is that you have already built it, or an MVP of it that is more than just smoke and mirrors, and there’s users and customers. If you have excellent proo…
Ideas shouldn’t get funding - ideas are just mere results of thought that haven’t been played through in depth.
Do you need a working product to get funding? No. But you do need a compelling investment thesis - which takes months and even years of deep thought to come to fruition. Of course you can shortcut this process by smooching but only a select few can pull that off.
Re: We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
#370I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably build a vacuum robot prototype that’ll also clean up all of the kids toys and sort LEGO bricks by colour and size. Parents worldwide would love it. But instead, we get a replacement for Git. And I didn’t even bother to click the link because I’m fine with how Git works. On the list of pain points in my life, “what comes after Git” has…
Money is not given to good ideas (though, it doesn’t hurt). Money is given to friends . If you look at how VC (or really any network) funding circulates, it’s just people who are allowed to enter that circle and money just flows between them constantly. On one hand, you have trusted people who you are willing to give money, on the other hand, this inherently creates a clique. It reminds me how the Bohemian Club’s slo…
I'm sure VCs give money to friends but I didn't know any investors when I raised millions. They invested money because they thought it was a good idea.