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

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

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Post by drvd »

FranklinJabar wrote: post #475
loveparade wrote: post #447

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think your Github example is accurate. The vast majority of developers started using git after Github became a thing. They may have used svn or another type of collaboration system before, but not git. And the main reason they started using git is because Github was such massive value on top of git, not because git was so amazing.

> And the main reason they started using git is because Github was such massive value on top of git, not because git was so amazing. Github has always been mediocre and forgettable outside of convenience that you might already have an account on the site. Svn was just shitty compared to git, and cvs was a crime against humanity.

Not to mention Rad.

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

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Post by emporas »

chenmx wrote: post #393

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You don't need a workflow. The agent is the workflow. That's the idea at least. Probably not a great idea IMHO, because producing high quality code is the main difficulty of programming. Everything else, committing to git, deploying etc, pale in comparison.

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

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Post by romanovcode »

For a solo developer this is pretty useless. For a team where everyone uses same coding tool this might be useful.

I am afraid however that with these tools Claude Code will just copy this in 3 months and have it as standard functionality within itself as a plugin.

Also I find it ironic that this domain is blocking all AI tools to access it, I tried to ask AI to explain what is the product and it is blocking Claude/GPT access to the website.

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

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Post by romanovcode »

andrewshawcare wrote: post #4

> The game has changed. The system is cracking. Just say what your thing does. Or, better yet, show it to me in under 60 seconds. Web sites are the new banner ads and headings like that are the new ` `.

Same, then I pasted URL to Claude and asked it to explain the product to me: Blocked. Irony is palpable.

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

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Post by hansmayer »

blitzar wrote: post #485
hansmayer wrote: post #473

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the huge amounts of capital already burnt, and another 1T in CapEX RPO being announced last few weeks and months, isnt that too many of "potentially" and "ultimately" unspecific qualifiers you are throwing around here? Reminds a lot of Sam Altmans classic lines of unspecific statements like "Codex is so good" or "I can only imagine how good it will get" by the end of 202x (insert year of the decade according to y…

We are in an era of solutions being invented and developed at a rapid pace. The identification or invention of problems that they are good at solving has a much slower lifecycle.

Really? Why then does Amodei keep announcing the end of employment in 6 months, every 6 months?

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Post by fblp »

doctoboggan wrote: post #320
willmarquis wrote: post #288

The thread is missing the forest for the trees. The interesting bet here isn't git checkpoints—it's that someone is finally building the observability layer for agent-generated code. Most agent frameworks (LangChain, Swarm, etc.) obsessed over orchestration. But the actual pain point isn't "how do I chain prompts"—it's "what did the agent do, why, and how do I audit/reproduce it?" The markdown-files-in-git crowd is r…

@dang with the launch of open claw I have seen so much more LLM slop comments. I know meta comments like mine aren't usually encouraged, but I think we need to do something about this as a community. Is there anything we can do? (either ban or at least requiring full disclosure for bot comments would be nice). EDIT: I suspect the current "solution" is to just downvote (which I do!), but I think people who don't chat…

Thank you for pointing this out. I didn't catch that the parent comment was ai either and upvoted it. Changed it to a downvote seeing your comment and realizing it the comment did indeed have many AI flags.

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

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Post by AdamN »

shakna wrote: post #452
loveparade wrote: post #447

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think your Github example is accurate. The vast majority of developers started using git after Github became a thing. They may have used svn or another type of collaboration system before, but not git. And the main reason they started using git is because Github was such massive value on top of git, not because git was so amazing.

Git had already replaced perforce and svn most everywhere I'd seen, before GitHub came along. CVS was still horrible and in a lot, though. I mean, git was '05 and GitHub was '08, so not like the stats will say much one way or another. StackOverflow only added it their survey in 2015. No source of truth, only anecdotes.

Lots of people were using svn and mercurial was also coming up around the time that GitHub launched. Both git and GitHub were superior to all the other options but for many people they did the switch to GitHub and git at the same time.
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