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Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by fnordlord »

NoDodgeQuestion wrote: post #174
skinfaxi wrote: post #85

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> LLMs have made making personal changes to devtools so effortless that I am now extremely hesitant to use any non source available software at all This mirrors my view so totally it's crazy. If AI is ushering in the era of personal tooling, closing the harness is orthogonal to what users want.

that is not what orthogonal means

I may be crazy but I've heard and used "orthogonal" in that context. Or I totally misunderstood the original sentence.

Quick googled definition option: "Very different or unrelated; sharply divergent."

Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by inigyou »

p_l wrote: post #177
inigyou wrote: post #153

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If they're customers , just sell them the license they want.

That's the real problem with AGPL, IMO - it encourages copyright assignment to a corporate entity so it can launder it through dual-licensing

Well if it's a commercial project what did you expect? The problem there is working for free for a corporation's benefit - copyright assignment or not.

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Post by rpunkfu »

trymas wrote: post #137
SJMG wrote: post #57

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I just wouldn't bet against Mitchell. He doesn't need the money. He does it for the love of it.

Though what I genuinely don't understand is, why then Mitchel needs funding? If he needs funding - why accept it from weird contraversial figures? He has the freedom of choice, like no other.

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Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by rubenflamshep »

porker wrote: post #129

herdr users (and all the other terminal multiplexer users): what am I missing? I use cmux because I like tabbed terminals on macOS grouped by project, saves messing with our daft window management. What is it that makes herdr et al so popular with LLM users?

I also tried Herdr. But I'm already using Aerospace, which makes MacOS window management a breeze and I don't need the remote session management stuff so the benefit wasn't quite there for me. It is a very thoughtful project so I did borrow lots of its features (Agents working now get an animation in my sketchy bar, a soft chime to indicate a finishes status).

Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by mricordeau »

humblepie wrote: post #5

Okay, back to tmux it is then.

Yes, just using tmux. I built a lightweight python TUI wrapper than can start Claude code, codex and open code using tmux because I was loosing my mind to retrieve my sessions and context. Using it for the last 6+ months. Some bugs still where the Claude sessions are not killed properly time to time. https://github.com/michaelricordeau/ccs

Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by piratebroadcast »

I have a bit of a contrarian thought here, but I tried Herdr and I didn't like it. To me, it kind of proved the opposite point it intended, in that agent orchestration actually belongs at the terminal level. I'd like to see for example a fork of Ghostty become the agent orchestration control room.

Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by pheewma »

piratebroadcast wrote: post #187

I have a bit of a contrarian thought here, but I tried Herdr and I didn't like it. To me, it kind of proved the opposite point it intended, in that agent orchestration actually belongs at the terminal level. I'd like to see for example a fork of Ghostty become the agent orchestration control room.

They have this already. Both cmux and supacode use libghostty in the backend.

Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by notsmarthuh »

rwz wrote: post #112
xyzsparetimexyz wrote: post #82

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Like the articles, hate the influence of VC on open source. Even if it stays open it still gets ruined. See Bun for an example.

I don't see how Bun is "ruined". In fact, I personally see Bun as example of the opposite — Rust rewrite seems like a huge success across the board. I'm personally using the 1.4 canary (the rust rewrite version) and definitely plan on continuing using it in my future projects.

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Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by antiobli »

porker wrote: post #129

herdr users (and all the other terminal multiplexer users): what am I missing? I use cmux because I like tabbed terminals on macOS grouped by project, saves messing with our daft window management. What is it that makes herdr et al so popular with LLM users?

I like it because it's a terminal first workspace and has bindings to use it programatically. Tried Superset and Intent, but they seemed like way overkill / unintuitive to use agents like I prefer. I use WezTerm as a terminal, so being able to have herdr exist in that application (not having another app to keep track of) as a tab really helps me stay in flow. Over the last few weeks, Herdr has given me the vibe of "works out of the box, but is highly customizable", and I think that power-user angle really sold me.

Oh, and I didn't know how much I'd love session persistence. I already use tmux for every other terminal process, so it being built in to herdr and a focused feature (server start, detach, stop) is nice to see.

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