Is it all just vapourware?

I find it hard to buy this generalization about _all_ "AI"/agent software when the author has only provided _one_ example. A couple alternatives could've been explored, like Cursor Cloud Agents or even just running Claude Code with remote control on another machine. I'd also personally never spend a dime on any product unless I've read _some_ positive sentiment from online commentary, like Hacker News. To my point, Ona appears to have a pretty low amount of feedback that makes it difficult to justify any $20 bills: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ona.com

I wonder if there is cargo culting afoot

There are definitely guys in some companies just pointing an agent swarm at 50 Github tickets and saying "go get 'em boys" and hence need a lot of orchestration tools but for the rest of us do we really need the AI to do all the build steps and the testing steps... or do we just need the new feature that runs when the button is clicked and then we can check it out in the browser ourselves. The code gen is what I need the AI for, not the 'smoke tests' and the tsc finagling. I'm willing to spend some mental calories myself in figuring this feature out step by step

Actually this makes me wonder if some people are just not very into building step by step like "okay first let's check the JSON shape the endpoint returns", "okay now let's make a simple form", etc

> But so far most of what they do is make more annoying work for me. More integrations to debug, more auth tokens to refresh, more bills to keep track of, more meandering and drawn out descriptions of non-bugs with bogus fix suggestions and misinformed “root cause” analyses. It’s tiresome.

God this times 1000. I'm so sick of having AI chase a bug and having to lead it by the hand like a toddler to try and help me solve bugs. The difference is, a toddler learns when you explain. An LLM holds your responses in context and uses them to generate more authentic sounding garbage, but next session, foomf, the lesson is unlearned again.

I had a tiny problem with prerendering not working on a react site last night, I must have spent close to an hour running commands it asked me to run like a moron, verifying dumb things I had already checked like "did the file actually upload to ftp" or had I restarted Apache or was there some magic htaccess file somewhere. Eventually I just gave up on Claude and tried some different paths in Apache virtual host settings and it worked.

Of course if I went back to Claude and reported that, as would be my instinct with a human, it would confidently explain why that was the bug, why it couldn't spot the issue, and how smart I am for finding it. And then it would forget everything tomorrow

What the heck? What product was I advertising here?

The one you link to?