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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 dasil003 »

elif wrote: post #391
toraway wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The same moat that git had on svn, a better mental paradigm over the same fundamental system, more suited to how SWE changed over a decade.

I wouldn’t characterize it as a moat exactly. svn/cvs just had a braindead data model. Linus started git with a fundamentally better one.

I definitely see the potential of AI-native version control, it will take a bit more to convince me this is a similar step-level improvement though.

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Post by otterley »

snemvalts wrote: post #433
otterley wrote: post #357

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To add to your comment, I think the next logical question is, “then what?” Surely one can’t build a sustainable business storing these records alone.

MCP server with RAG to feed it back to agents when they are working on a piece of code, and bob's your uncle

That sounds like word salad, not a clearly articulated solution to a well-understood customer problem.

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Post by korrectional »

cseleborg wrote: post #525
1drop100soap wrote: post #468

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I mean, I CAN see the value in pushing the context summary to git. We already have git blame to answer "who", but there is no git interrogate to answer the "why". This is clearly an attempt to make that a verb git can keep track of. It's a valuable idea. I also seen examples of it before. I've got opencode running right now and it has a share session feature. That whole idea is just a spinoff on the concept of the sa…

Isn't "why" what commit message bodies are for?

That's actually not a bad idea. Idk about any tools that do that tho

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Post by dasil003 »

darkwater wrote: post #444
bmurphy1976 wrote: post #331

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I haven't read the article yet but this conversation reminds me of Docker. Lots of people "didn't get it." I told them at the time: if you don't get it you aren't ready for it yet so don't worry about it. When you do need it, you'll get it and then you'll use it and never look back. Look at where we are with containers now.

And look where Docker Inc is now (which is one of the points some critics are making)

Sure, but long term business success aside, I’m sure most of the folks working at this company would die for a fraction of the adoption curve docker had.

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Post by romanovcode »

parhamn wrote: post #217
ibejoeb wrote: post #130

>CLI to tie agent context into Git on every push. Is this the product? I don't want to jump on the detractor wagon, but I read the post and watched the video, and all I gathered is that it dumps the context into the commit. I already do this.

> I already do this. Hows your ability to get an enterprise to mandate their 5000 employees to use it? That's what most of these types of rounds are about.

This does not address it one bit. Everyone has to install it, authorize themselves with said GH repo etc.

And since you mentioned "enterprise", they won't be able to use it if they do not use GH, and a lot of enterprise cropos use azure devops.

Also there is no user management etc, if anything this is ANTI-enterprise.

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Post by 6031769 »

benterix wrote: post #509
vidarh wrote: post #505

> When you push your commit, Checkpoints also pushes this metadata to a separate branch (entire/checkpoints/v1) For Claude Code, this is literally a JSONL file in .claude/projects/[path with - instead of /]/[uuid].jsonl... You can trivially have Claude Code write a commit hook to do this for you if you find it useful. I'm sure their vision is wider than that, but they will need to iterate fast for this not to be made…

That's why several VC-funded AI companies are deliberately vague about what they are doing.

That is charitable of you. The alternative viewpoint is that they are vague about it because they have no idea what they are doing.

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Post by rirze »

guiambros wrote: post #390
nialv7 wrote: post #254

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Sure... you `git add` the context text generated by AI and `git commit` it, could be useful. Is that worth 60 million?

It's funny how HN'ers frequently judge ideas based on complexity of implementation, not value. I still remember the reaction when Dropbox was created: " It's just file sharing; I can build my own with FTP. What value could it possibly create ".

It's a common trope. (Some) artists will often convey the same message; art should be judged on how hard it was to create. Hence why some artist despise abstract art or anything "simplistic".

We forget that human consumption doesn't increase with manufacturing complexity (it can be correlated, but not cause and effect). At the end of day, it's about human connection, which is dependent on emotion, usefulness, and availability.

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

jacquesm wrote: post #489
ryanjshaw wrote: post #432

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This comment feels word-for-word the legendary DropBox critique on HN.

It was only legendary because DropBox hit it out of the park. In hindsight it is easy to see this. And it's the default HN response to anything .

A broken forum is right twice a day

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Post by jackdoe »

cush wrote: post #445
toraway wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

There's no way this company is just a few git and claude hooks with a CLI. They're definitely working on a SASS - something else that isn't open source that this primitive is the basis of. Like a GitHub for agent code

haha

github for agent code is dropbox final_final2.zip

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