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Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

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Re: Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

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Post by a24venka »

kkukshtel wrote: post #50

"I make AI output lots of stuff" is not an intrinsically valuable thing. I can run the same thing on Claude in research mode and get a report with cited sources in a more digestable format on my phone. What's the eval here on if any of this is good? Is it even possible to test (ie, you cant really AB test startup ideas)?

Great question. The core of Spine is coordinating multiple specialized agents across multiple models, using the canvas to store and pass context selectively so each agent works with exactly what it needs.

On the eval side, we ran Spine Swarm against GAIA Level 3 and Google DeepMind's DeepSearchQA and hit #1 on both.Full writeup: https://blog.getspine.ai/spine-swarm-hits-1-on-gaia-level-3-...

Re: Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

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Post by a24venka »

agenticbtcio wrote: post #51

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Spot on. The persistence layer is a huge part of what makes the canvas work.

For failures, we handle it at multiple levels: first, standard retries and fallbacks to alternate models/providers. If that fails, the agents look for alternate approaches to accomplish the same task (e.g. falling back to web search instead of browser use).

For completeness, you can also manually re-run or edit individual blocks if they fail (though the agents may or may not consider this depending on where they are in their flow).

Re: Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

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Post by swyx »

a24venka wrote: post #41
TheTaytay wrote: post #34

I think this is really neat. You should probably take it as a compliment that the biggest criticisms so far are about the website landing page. ;) I like canvases in general, and I especially like them for mentally organizing and referring to this sort of broad work. (Honestly, I think zoomable canvases would make a better window manager in general, but I digress) One small piece of friction: My default mouse-based w…

Really appreciate the detailed feedback and questions! And yes, we'll take the website criticism as a compliment :) Good callout on the canvas navigation, we'll look into middle mouse button support. To answer your questions: 1) GitHub integration is on our roadmap. Right now you can export outputs manually but we want to make this seamless. 2) All your canvases are saved and you can search them by name in your dashb…

> And yes, we'll take the website criticism as a compliment :)

ugh. guys. come on. stop celebrating at the 1 yard line. people are telling you they didnt even look at the product becacuse your landing page was so bad. you wasted your launch HN linking directly to it, ofc thats the first thing people are going to give feedback on. fix it right now you still have time.

Re: Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

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Post by ryhanshannon »

I like the overall idea and presentation. In trying it out, I hit the token cap before my trial task was able to complete and show me the end result. I'm sure your free-tier token costs are non-trivial but it was definitely a bummer that I couldn't even see one initial run's output to decide if I wanted to pay.

I decided to gamble the one month fee to let it continue, but the payment defaulting to annual was jarring. I can see it lets you advertise a lower price but that only made me more tempted to leave altogether when I saw the price go up on the final screen.

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