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

Post by toraway » Wed, Feb 11, 2026, 5:45 AM UTC

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #396

toraway wrote: post #374

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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…

> HN threads confidently asserting I have never seen any thread that unanimously asserts this. Even if they do, having HN/reddit asserting something as evidence is wrong way to look at things.

  > if you can't see the value in this, I don't know what to tell you

Post by jameslk » Wed, Feb 11, 2026, 5:47 AM UTC

toraway wrote: post #374

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.

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…

Post by what » Wed, Feb 11, 2026, 5:49 AM UTC

999900000999 wrote: post #122

I had a similar, admitted poorly thought out idea a few months back. I wanted to more or less build Jira for agents and track the context there. If I had to guess 60 million is just enough to build the POC out. I don't see how this can compete though, Open AI or Anthro could easily spin up a competitor internally.

Post by ashtom » Wed, Feb 11, 2026, 5:50 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #372

ashtom wrote: post #56

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Founder here. I built commercial insurance software for Windows 95 in the 1990s, driver assistant systems at Mercedes and at Bosch in the early 2000s, dozens of iPhone apps as contractor, a startup called HockeyApp (acquired by Microsoft), and various smaller projects, mostly in Ruby on Rails. And of course, when I left Microsoft & GitHub, 10 years of green boxes were removed from my GitHub profile.

Glad to see you commenting here despite the, er, unsubstantive disposition of some of the commenters! (I'm a mod here btw.) We really don't like it when the audience responds to new things with snark and dismissiveness, and there are rules in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html to make that clear. In this case I think the root problem is that the OP ( https://entire.io/blog/hello-entire-world/ ) is the w…

Post by sebmellen » Wed, Feb 11, 2026, 5:52 AM UTC

doctoboggan wrote: post #334

sebmellen wrote: post #324

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It's the dead internet theory in action. Every time I see slop I comment on it. I've found people don't always like it when you comment on it.

Yes I usually just bite my tongue and downvote, but with the launch of open claw I think the amount of slop has increased dramatically and I think we need to deal with it sooner than later.