Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

twill.ai

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 113 posts

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

#31

Post by danoandco »

hmokiguess wrote: post #12
danoandco wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this is the pass@k metric from code generation research. Found the relevant paper Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code (Chen et al., 2021) which introduced the metric.

Interesting, and how does Twill uses it in that feature?

On the Twill web app, you can run the same task across different agents and multiple attempts (each in its own sandbox). Then you pick the best result. This is super handy for UI work where you can open the live preview for each attempt and compare. Next step for us is adding a final pass where an agent evaluates the results and combines the best parts into one PR.

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

#32

Post by ragelink »

2001zhaozhao wrote: post #8

24/7 running coding agents are pretty clearly the direction the industry is going now. I think we'll need either on-premises or cloud solutions, since obviously if you need an agent to run 24/7 then it can't live on your laptop. Obviously cloud is better for making money, and some kind of VPC or local cloud solution is best for enterprise, but perhaps for individual devs, a self-hosted system on a home desktop comput…

The core issue for me is, I don't want to trust someone else with my code, or run my stuff on their computers. I don't see serious enterprise organizations offloading something as critical to security outside their own network perimeter.

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

#33

Post by auszeph »

I built an internal version of this for my workplace.

Something very useful that will be harder for you most likely is code search. Having a proper index over hundreds of code repos so the agent can find where code is called from or work out what the user means when they use an acronym or slightly incorrect name.

It's quite nice to use and I'm sure someone will make a strong commercial offering. Good luck

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

#35

Post by verdverm »

willydouhard wrote: post #16
gbnwl wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure if you've seen it yourself but Claude code can kick off parallel agents working in their own worktrees natively now. I do it all the time.

Yes, the difference is that Twill launches dedicated infra on each sandbox for each task. This means you can work on multiple tasks requiring a DB migration for instance. Also you can fire and forget tasks (my favorite) and don't have to keep your laptop running at night.

See also Cowork and other upcoming Anthropic features.

See also Show HN, this exact product is frequently shown as a github link.

The paradigm shift in Ai means what you are making is (1) filling a gap until the primaries implement it, most have it in their pipeline if not already (2) how easy it is to replicate with said Ai using my preferred tech stack

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

#36

Post by willydouhard »

auszeph wrote: post #33

I built an internal version of this for my workplace. Something very useful that will be harder for you most likely is code search. Having a proper index over hundreds of code repos so the agent can find where code is called from or work out what the user means when they use an acronym or slightly incorrect name. It's quite nice to use and I'm sure someone will make a strong commercial offering. Good luck

I agree and that is why I think monorepos are making a comeback.

That said, there are workarounds, like cloning all repos and enabling LSP (coding CLIs added that feature) or using a dedicated solution for codebase indexing and add a skill/mcp.

Super fast models spamming grep commands are also fun to watch!

Curious to know how you implemented it in house.

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

#37

Post by danoandco »

wordpad wrote: post #34

How does this compare to Jules from Google?

Jules is similar to Twill with the following differences:

- Twill is CLI-agnostic, meaning you can use Claude Code, Codex or Gemini. Jules only works with Gemini.

- We focus on the delegation experience: Twill has native integrations with your typical stack like Slack or Linear. The PRs comes back with proofs of work, such as screenshots or videos.

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

#39

Post by willydouhard »

verdverm wrote: post #35
willydouhard wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the difference is that Twill launches dedicated infra on each sandbox for each task. This means you can work on multiple tasks requiring a DB migration for instance. Also you can fire and forget tasks (my favorite) and don't have to keep your laptop running at night.

See also Cowork and other upcoming Anthropic features. See also Show HN, this exact product is frequently shown as a github link. The paradigm shift in Ai means what you are making is (1) filling a gap until the primaries implement it, most have it in their pipeline if not already (2) how easy it is to replicate with said Ai using my preferred tech stack

Cowork does not seem to be focused on engineering, but we are fully expecting Anthropic to catch up in this category.

What Anthropic can't offer is to let you use Codex or combine it with Claude Code. That is why we think non ai-labs players have a say in this market.

To your last point, as always there is a buy vs build tradeoff which ultimately comes down to focusing on your core business which we think still remains important in the ai era

Post reply on HN