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I'm not disagreeing, just soliciting. Does anyone have examples of products that failed in the early stages because their implementation was too trivial?
How exactly are we supposed to hear about something that failed in the early stages?
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
#582> 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.
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#583> 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.
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#584Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Web sites are the new banner ads and headings like that are the new ` `. It's been like this since the Dotcom era Or did you forget that you can do anything at zombo.com? It appears to be rather slow today, but here's a Wiki link for the uninitiated- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com
The domain expired a few days ago and was purchased by someone else and then changed. There's a recreation of the original here https://html5zombo.com/
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#585> 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.
It's not 1:1 with checkpoints, but I find such things to be useful.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon...
I think that's just how rich people play the game. Why use your own money when you can use other people's money?
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#588Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#589Show me the next blockchain or noSQL, or git!
Everything is "I took a prompt and stapled it to another prompt and added framework".. and then. holds hand out "MONEY PLEASE!"
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#590> 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.
The most active HNers are just extremely negative on AI. I understand the impulse (you spend years honing your craft, and then something comes along and automates major portions of it) but it's driven by emotion and ego-defense and those engaged in it simply don't recognize what's motivating them. Their ego-defense is actually self-fulfilling, because they don't even try to properly learn how to leverage LLMs for cod…