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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't have a record of questions asked/answered and rationale for decisions taken, I've noticed it's easy for subsequent feature plans to clash. Maintaining a line of consistency across each feature plan is a good thing.

I think thats what docs/comments are for, ask your agent to add/maintain them

No functional difference whatsoever. Literally the exact same solution, but somehow dressed up to be contrarian.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In simpler terms - they create an MCP server, essentially an API that the coding agent can call, that can fill in context about previous decisions done by the coding agent earlier in development. Agent equivalent of asking someone who's been working there longer "why is this this way".

This means that the agent will can have context of previous decisions, something that they currently struggle with as they are always starting from a blank slate.

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

#623

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

In simpler terms - they create an MCP server, essentially an API that the coding agent can call, that can fill in context about previous decisions done by the coding agent earlier in development. Agent equivalent of asking someone who's been working there longer "why is this this way". This means that the agent will can have context of previous decisions, something that they currently struggle with as they are always…

Coding agents starting from a blank slate isn’t good practice to begin with. That’s a vibe coding practice, not a practice that you’d start with when you want to build a real business serving customers. You start with specifications and design documents; you don’t leave those decisions to agents (although you can use agents to help design them). So the context ought to be there already.

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

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post #132

I’m manually checking in Agent.md for every commit to improve the context window usage. Is that now automated?

you're doing what now?

Aren’t you maintaining Agent.md file that documents the actual context?

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

#625

I'm not making a judgement on the product but why is everything about selling shovels? I want to see "real" software and new innovative ideas that are developed and maintained using AI and not just shovels 'advertised' on HN every week. Show 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!"

Because building complex product that is also useful is not quick and is not easy. Contrary to the idea that many people are floating around these days.
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