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Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
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- brandall10 8mo ago60 million SEED round? This is really a thing now?
- ljm 8mo ago[dead]
- crondee 8mo agoTake a look at the 500M seed round next :)
- ryukoposting 8mo agoHey, they said AI was 100x right?
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- peterldowns 8mo agoIts a shame Pierre shut down. Wish they could have made it work. Github but made by Linear would be a dream.
- gabeidx 8mo agoPierre didn't shutdown, they said they just paused signups on the code review app to focus on the code storage service. Productizing the building blocks of the platform seems like the smart play in today's environment honestly.
- peterldowns 8mo agoSure but I dont want to build my own Github I just want to use a beautiful and faster alternative
- icy 8mo agoWe’re shooting for this with Tangled (https://tangled.org https://tangled.org). :)
- tommoor 8mo agoLinear will have something for you soon – https://linear.app/reviews https://linear.app/reviews
- andrewshawcare 8mo ago> 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 `<blink>`.
- mentalgear 8mo agoExactly ... tired by all the marketing hyperbole talk. Just show what your product does in a simple example / showcase. If it's good, people will like it. You can save yourself a lot of text copy and user time that way.
- munk-a 8mo agoBut what if my product is just an attempt to make a cushy exit during the AI bubble?
- ezekg 8mo agoThey'll learn soon enough that selling to developers necessitates speaking clearly.
- LtWorf 8mo agoThey will sell to their managers
- jeltz 8mo agoNo. With this kind of bullshit they plan to try to sell to C-levels and board members. Edit: Actually it may just be aimed at investors. Who cares about having a product?
- properbrew 8mo ago> Actually it may just be aimed at investors The fact that the first image you see has "$60M seed" in big text, I have to agree, this does not feel aimed at devs.
- mentalgear 8mo agoActually interesting, but how's that different from just putting your learning / decision context into the normal commit text (body) ? An LLM can search that too, and doesn't require a new cli tool. EDIT: Or just keep a proper (technical) changelog.txt file in the repo. A lot of the "agentic/LLM engineering frameworks" boil down to best approaches and proper standards the industry should have been following decades ago.
- verdverm 8mo agoAfter I have an ai dona task, I ask the next one to look at that plan and git diff and so ble check validate I don't see the need for a full platform that is separate from where my code already lives. If I'm migrating away, it's to something like tangled, not another VC funded company
- dinosor 8mo ago> ... to Cursor's Composer 2.0 and more, ... I couldn't find any references of Composer 2.0 anywhere. When did that come out?
- giancarlostoro 8mo ago> Spec-driven development is becoming the primary driver of code generation. This sounds like my current "phase" of AI coding. I have had so many project ideas for years that I can just spec out, everything I've thought about, all the little ideas and details, things I only had time to think about, never implement. I then feed it to Claude, and watch it meet my every specification, I can then test it, note any bugs, recompile and re-test. I can review the code, as you would a Junior you're mentoring, and have it rewrite it in a specific pattern. Funnily enough, I love Beads, but did not like that it uses git hooks for the DB, and I can't tie tickets back to ticketing systems, so I've been building my own alternative, mine just syncs to and from github issues. I think this is probably overkill for whats been a solved thing: ticketing systems.
- visarga 8mo agoI am going lower level - every individual work item is a "task.md" file, starts initially as a user ask, then add planning, and then the agent checks gates "[ ]" on each subtask as it works through it. In the end the task files remain part of the project, documenting work done. I also keep an up to date mind map for the whole project to speed up start time. And I use git hooks on the tool event to print the current open gate (subtask) from task.md so the agent never deviates from the plan, this is important if you use yolo mode. It might be an original technique I never heard anyone using it. A stickie note in the tool response, printed by a hook, that highlights the current task and where is the current task.md located. I have seen stretches of 10 or 15 minutes of good work done this way with no user intervention. Like a "Markdown Turing Machine".
- giancarlostoro 8mo agoThat's hilarious, I called it gates too for my reimplementation of Beads. Still working on it a bit, but this is the one I built out a month back, got it into git a week ago. For me a gate is: a dependency that must pass before a task is closed. It could be human verification, unit testing, or even "can I curl this?" "can I build this?" and gates can be re-used, but every task MUST have one gate. My issue with git hooks integration at that level is and I know this sounds crazy, but not everyone is using git. I run into legacy projects, or maybe its still greenfield as heck, and all you have is a POC zip file your manager emailed you for whatever awful reason. I like my tooling to be agnostic to models and external tooling so it can easily integrate everywhere. Yours sounds pretty awesome for what its worth, just not for me, wish you the best of luck. https://github.com/Giancarlos/GuardRails https://github.com/Giancarlos/GuardRails
- OliverGilan 8mo agodisclosure: i run a startup that will most likely be competitive in the future. I welcome more innovation in the code forge space but if you’re looking for an oss alternative just for tracking agent sessions with your commits you should checkout agentblame https://github.com/mesa-dot-dev/agentblame https://github.com/mesa-dot-dev/agentblame
- ashtom 8mo agoEntire CEO here. We are going to be building in the open and full stack open source, but great to see alternatives.
- hbarka 8mo agoDid you have to choose an adjective to name your product. Now it’s going to be very confusing for search engines and LLms. “Tell me more about entire.” “Entire what?” “You know, that entire thing.”
- conartist6 8mo agoAnother of your competitors here. It makes me giggle that we're going after the entire developer experience while Entire is only looking at a small corner of it.
- ashtom 8mo agoTime will tell how small that corner is. ;)
- conartist6 8mo agoCertainly! But just to confirm, you aren't making an IDE or building a version control system to replace Git, are you? While money means you need not fear me, the scale of my vision means that I don't fear you either.
- operatingthetan 8mo agoOh I don't think I need this if all of my commits are AI!
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- wahnfrieden 8mo agoEssentially all software is augmented with agentic development now, or if not, built with technology or on platforms that is It's like complaining about the availability of the printing press because it proliferated tabloid production, while preferring beautifully hand-crafted tomes. It's reactively trendy to hate on it because of the vulgar production it enables and to elevate the artisanal extremes that escape its apparent influence
- nickorlow 8mo agoIt's really not as integral as you make it sound. If I make one PR on a widely used open source tool with a small fix, is most software development augmented by me?
- metamet 8mo agoOutside of simply not being true, the sentiment of what you're saying isn't much different than: "Essentially all software is augmented with Stack Overflow now, or if not, built with technology or on platforms that is." Agentic development isn't a panacea nor as widespread as you claim. I'd wager that the vast majority of developers treat AI is a more specified search engine to point them in the direction they're looking for. AI hallucination is still as massive problem. Can't tell you the number of times I've used agentic prompting with a top model that writes code for a package based on the wrong version number or flat out invents functionality that doesn't exist.
- aspenmartin 8mo agoI just cannot fathom how people can say something like this today, agentic tools have now passed an inflection point. People want to point out the short comings and fully ignore that you can now make a fully functioning iPhone app in a day without knowing swift or front end development? That I can at my company do two projects simultaneously, both of them done in about 1/4 the time and one would not have even been attempted before due to the SWE headcount you would have to steal. There are countless examples I have in my own personal projects that just are such an obvious counter example to the moaning “I appreciate the craft” people or “yea this will never work because people still have to read the code” (today sure and this is now made more manageable by good quality agents, tomorrow no. No you won’t need to read code.)
- siliconc0w 8mo agoThis is a good idea but I feel like you could get something similar by just adding an instruction for the agent to summarize the context for the commit into a .context/commit/<sha> file as a git hook.
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- ramoz 8mo agoOr git notes. Commit hook > Background agent summarizes (in a data structure) the work that went into the commit > saves to a note Built similar (with a better name) a week ago at a hackathon: https://github.com/eqtylab/y https://github.com/eqtylab/y
- jnwatson 8mo agoExactly. I don't want to wade through a whole session log just to get to reasoning, and more importantly, I don't want to taint my current agent context with a bunch of old context. Context management is still an important human skill in working with an agent, and this makes it harder.
- imafish 8mo agoNot sure what it is or what it does.
- ramoz 8mo agoUses AI to summarize coding sessions tied to commits. Commit hook > Background agent summarizes (in a data structure) the work that went into the commit. Built similar (with a better name) a week ago at a hackathon: https://github.com/eqtylab/y https://github.com/eqtylab/y
- verdverm 8mo agoWhich only reinforces someone just lit $60M on fire. It's trivial to do this and there are so many ways people do things, having the AI build custom for you is better than paying some VC funded platform to build something for the average
- dust42 8mo agoNot even pocket change compared to the billions of VC money burnt every month to keep the show running.
- dude250711 8mo agoIt extracts money from investors and allocates it to founders.
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- sp4cec0wb0y 8mo agoThis guy was the ex-ceo of GitHub and can't bother to communicate his product in a single announcement post?
- ashtom 8mo agoI am here. What did I not bother with? I wrote the blog post and it has all the details.
- booleandilemma 8mo agoWow, account from 2011 and just two comments, both on this article. Welcome, lurker, and good luck :)
- ashtom 8mo agoThanks. New startup, new approach.
- sp4cec0wb0y 8mo agoI am struggling to see what the details are other than high-level concepts. Perhaps a demo would be useful!
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- Hammershaft 8mo agoHey, is JJ compatibility in the cards? Considering the blog article hints at a goal of a developerless agent-to-agent automation platform I'm guessing developer conveniences are a side quest rn?
- ashtom 8mo agoYes, definitely something we are thinking of.
- asim 8mo agoOh man I'm tired. This reminds me of the docker era. It's all moving fast. Everyone's raising money. And 24 months from now it's all consolidating. It's all a nice hype game when you raise the funding but the execution depends on people finding value in your products and tools. I would argue yes many of these things are useful but I'd also argue there's far too much overlap, too many unknowns and too many people trying to reinvent the whole process. And just like the container era I think we're going to see a real race to zero. Where most of the dev tools get open sourced and only a handful of product companies survive, if that. I want to wish everyone the best of luck because I myself have raised money and spent countless years building Dev tools. This is no easy task especially as the landscape is changing. I just think when you raise $60m and announce a cli. You're already dead, you just don't know it. I'm sorry.
- dipree 8mo agoWhat if it's just the beginning of something bigger?
- yifanl 8mo agoWhat if the earth exploded tomorrow? Who cares about what if.
- giancarlostoro 8mo agoWith 60 million you could have waited for a bigger announcement? There's "AI fatigue" among the target market for these sorts of tools, advertising unfinished products will take its toll on you later.
- yomismoaqui 8mo agoLet the cambrian explosion run its course but let's hope the meteorite doesn't kill us all.
- eddythompson80 8mo agoI wouldn't wanna be in the rat race myself, but I know people who salivate at the opportunity to create some popular dev tool to get acquired by MS, Google or Amazon or whichever of the big tech companies that decide this could work well in their cloud ecosystem.
- haute_cuisine 8mo agoMy first thought that it was made for companies which tie "AI usage" to performance evaluation.
- FitchApps 8mo agoNew agent framework / platform every week now. It's crazy how fast things move...just when you get comfortable with an AI flow something new comes out...
- ImJasonH 8mo agoCheckpoints sounds like an interesting idea, and one I think we'll benefit from if they can make it useful. I tried a similar(-ish) thing last year at https://github.com/imjasonh/cnotes https://github.com/imjasonh/cnotes (a Claude hook to write conversations to git notes) but ended up not getting much out of it. Making it integrated into the experience would have helped, I had a chrome extension to display it in the GitHub UI but even then just stopped using it eventually.
- ramoz 8mo agoAh you were 7mo ahead of me doing the same and also coming to a similar conclusion. The idea holds value but in practice it isnt felt. https://github.com/eqtylab/y https://github.com/eqtylab/y
- what 8mo agoWhat are they actually “checkpointing”? Git already “checkpoints” your code and they can’t time travel your LLM conversation.
- johnfn 8mo ago> Cursor's Composer 2.0 There is no Composer 2.0. There is Cursor 2.0 and Composer 1.5.
- stack_framer 8mo agoWe went from having new JavaScript frameworks every week to having new AI frameworks every week. I'm thinking I should build a HN clone that filters out all posts about AI topics...
- daliusd 8mo agoCreate extension that does that. AI can do that for you in 10 minutes
- jahsome 8mo agoI've long wished for a 'filter' feature for the hn feed -- namely the old trend of web3 slop -- but with little else than keywords to filter, it would likely be tedious and inaccurate. Ironically, I think with AI/LLMs it could be a little easier to analyze.
- bitwize 8mo agoThis is how software is being written now. What you propose is like joining a forum called "Small-Scale Manufacturing News" and filtering out all 3D-printing articles.
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- Kuinox 8mo agoI'm interested to see if they will try to tackle the segregation of human vs AI code. The downside of agents is that they make too much changes to review, I prefer being able to track which changes I wrote or validated from the code the AI wrote.
- gen220 8mo agoFor people trying to understand the product (so far), it seems that entire is essentially an implementation of the idea documented by http://agent-trace.dev http://agent-trace.dev.
- m-hodges 8mo agoThere have been so many GitHub CEOs I was excited to find out which one.
- krashidov 8mo agoThere is also Git AI: https://github.com/git-ai-project/git-ai https://github.com/git-ai-project/git-ai https://usegitai.com/ https://usegitai.com/
- addcn 8mo agolove the shout but git-ai is decidedly not trying to replace the SCMs. there are teams building code review tools (commercial and internal) on top of the standard and I don't think it'll be long before GitHub, GitLab and the usual suspects start supporting it since folks the community have already been hacking it into Chrome extensions - this one got play on HN last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871473 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871473
- krashidov 8mo agoyep i know it's not meant to be an SCM tool but I thought it was somewhat related to what they're doing right now: "Entire CLI hooks into your git workflow to capture AI agent sessions on every push." Which is capturing the LLM convo along with the code (I could be wrong ofc)
- CuriouslyC 8mo agoJust have a data lake with annotated agent sessions and tool blobs (you should already be keeping this stuff for evals), then give your agent the ability to query it. No need for a special platform, or SaaS. As for SDLC, you can do some good automations if you're very opinionated, but people have diverse tastes in the way they want to work, so it becomes a market selection thing.
- verdverm 8mo agoThis is the way
- searls 8mo agoThis feels a bit like when some Hubbers broke off to work on PlanetScale, except without the massively successful, proven-to-be-scalable open source tool to build off (Vitess). If you're approaching this problem-space from the ground up, there are just so many fundamental problems to solve that it seems to me that no amount of money or quality of team can increase your likelihood of arriving at enough right answers to ensure success. Pulling off something like this vision in the current red-ocean market would require dozens of brilliant ideas and hundreds of correct bets.
- rgxsh 8mo agoThe founder has only forked repositories on GitHub that are sort of light web development related. His use of bombastic language in this announcement suggests that he has never personally worked on serious software. The deterioration of GitHub under his tenure is not confidence inspiring either, but that of course may have been dictated by Nadella. If you are very generous, this is just another GitHub competitor dressed up in AI B.S. in order to get funding.
- ashtom 8mo agoFounder here. I built commercial insurance software for Windows 95 in the 1990s, driver assistant systems at Mercedes and at Bosch in the early 2000s, dozens of iPhone apps as contractor, a startup called HockeyApp (acquired by Microsoft), and various smaller projects, mostly in Ruby on Rails. And of course, when I left Microsoft & GitHub, 10 years of green boxes were removed from my GitHub profile.
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- LightBug1 8mo agoBut ... what have you done lately? (I jest ... kudos).
- dang 8mo agoGlad to see you commenting here despite the, er, unsubstantive disposition of some of the commenters! (I'm a mod here btw.) We really don't like it when the audience responds to new things with snark and dismissiveness, and there are rules in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html to make that clear. In this case I think the root problem is that the OP (https://entire.io/blog/hello-entire-world/ https://entire.io/blog/hello-entire-world/) is the wrong genre for HN. It's a fine fundraising announcement, but that sort of enthusiastic general announcement rubs the HN audience the wrong way because what they really want is technical details. Spectacular non technical details like high valuations, etc., tend to accentuate this gap. I mention this because if you or someone on your team wants to write a technical post about what you're building, with satisfying details and all that, then we could do a take 2 (whenever would be a good time for this).
- ezekg 8mo agoI don't see how we need a brand new paradigm just because LLMs evidently suck at sharing context in their Git commits. The rules for good commits still apply in The New Age. Git is still good enough, LLMs (i.e. their developer handlers) just need to leverage it. Personally, I don't let LLMs commit directly. I git add -p and write my own commit messages -- with additional context where required -- because at the end of the day, I'm responsible for the code. If something's unclear or lacks context, it's my fault, not the robot's. But I would like to see a better GitHub, so maybe they will end up there.
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- dipree 8mo agoThe CLI is open source, everyone can use it and it does work with git only. So, no separate platform needed. The platform only provides convenience to view checkpoints at the moment. However you can also view them in the CLI. It's here https://github.com/entireio/cli https://github.com/entireio/cli
- mixologic 8mo agoDoesnt the tooling already exist? i.e. you could use `git notes` to attach agent state as checkpoints to Trees, Commits, Tags etc.
- skybrian 8mo agoI'm pretty happy using Shelley, which stores agent conversations in a Sqlite database. I can refer to a previous conversation and the agent can easily do a Sqlite query to see what happened. Although this isn't stored in git, I don't see any particularly need to since it's too detailed. Instead I have the agent write design docs (as an alternative to plan mode) and check those in. That seems like enough.
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- pmdr 8mo agoI really hate this trend of naming companies using dictionary words just because they can afford to spend cash on the domain name instead of engineering. Render, fly, modal, entire and so on.
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- codegeek 8mo ago"$60M Seed round" I guess when you are Ex-Github CEO, it is that easy raising a $60M seed. I wonder what the record for a seed round is. This is crazy.
- jordemort 8mo agoWait, since when is Dohmke out? I thought this was gonna be Nat.
- ashtom 8mo agoI left August 11: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/goodbye-github/ https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/goodbye-githu...
- dcchambers 8mo agoReally struggling to figure out what this is at a glance. Buried in the text is this line which I think is the tl;dr: "As a result, every change can now be traced back not only to a diff, but to the reasoning that produced it." This is a good idea, but I just don't see how you build an entire platform around this. This feels like a feature that should be added to GitHub. Something to see in the existing PR workflow. Why do I want to go to a separate developer platform to look at this information?
- esafak 8mo agoGithub sucks now, for one; people are looking for an alternative.
- dcchambers 8mo agoThis is not an alternative to GitHub though. The code for this tool itself lives on GitHub! https://github.com/entireio https://github.com/entireio
- chasd00 8mo agoI'm sure i'm missing something but can you not ask the llm to add the reasoning behind the commit in the comments as part of the general llm instructions?
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- svarlamov 8mo agoLooking at the CLI implementation. Why not build on top of jj?
- verdverm 8mo agomost people use git, jj has compatibility gaps
- throwaw12 8mo agoCan someone please explain what is this? I am already overloaded with information (generated by AI and humans) on my day to day job, why do I need this additional context, unless company I work for just wants to spend more money to store more slop? How is it different than reversing it, given a PR -> generate prompt based on business context relevant to the repo or mentioned issues -> preserve it as part of PR description I barely look at git commit history, why should I look for even higher cardinality data, in this case: WTF, are you doing, idiot, I said don't change the logic to make tests pass, I said properly write tests!
- lloydatkinson 8mo agoSounds very cringe
- verdverm 8mo agoNot surprising for a $60M seed round Do we have new words for smaller amounts or is this inflation at work?
- sanufar 8mo agoHuh, the checkpoint primitive is something that I've been thinking about for a while, excited to see how it's implemented in the CLI. Git-compatible structures seem to be a pretty big pull whenever they're talking about context management.
- Fitik 8mo agoReally hope that unlike GitHub it'll be open source
- rognjen 8mo agoWith a 60M seed? I doubt it.
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- LeoNatan25 8mo agoGrifters to the grift god
- ontouchstart 8mo agoI miss the good old days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=338286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=338286
- dvfjsdhgfv 8mo agoI thought something got seriously wrong with Nat Friedman but fortunately it's another one.
- rognjen 8mo agoHighly dubious of this. I see zero reason for a person to care about the checkpoints. And for agents, full sessions just needlessly fill context. So not sure what is being solved by this.
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- 999900000999 8mo agoI had a similar, admitted poorly thought out idea a few months back. I wanted to more or less build Jira for agents and track the context there. If I had to guess 60 million is just enough to build the POC out. I don't see how this can compete though, Open AI or Anthro could easily spin up a competitor internally.
- jasondigitized 8mo agoShouldn't this tool be agnostic to the models? Seems like a 3rd party is the way to go.
- taude 8mo agoIsn't that basically what things like this are for, open source, free.... https://github.com/steveyegge/beads https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
- what 8mo agoIn what world do you need $60M to build a POC of whatever this is supposed to be?
- handfuloflight 8mo ago> If I had to guess 60 million is just enough to build the POC out. You're kidding.
- gbnwl 8mo agoYou don't need to build anything. Just tell the agent to write tickets into .md files in a folder and move them to a closed foler as you go along. I've been using Claude Code with the Max plan nonstop essentially every day since last July and since then I've come to realize that the newer people are the more things they think they need to add to CC to get it work well. Eventually you'll find a way that works for you that needs none of it, and if any piece of all the extras IS ever helpful, Anthropic adds it themselves within a month or two.
- 999900000999 8mo agoI'm thinking a customized LLM would write notes in its own hyper compressed language which would allow it to be much much more efficient. For debugging you could translate it out to English, but if these agents can do stuff without humans in the loop, why do they need to take notes in English? I can't imagine creating this without hundreds of millions if not billions. I think the future is specialized models
- lysace 8mo agoList of Github CEOs: 1. Tom Preston-Werner (Co-founder). 2008 – 2014 (Out for, eh... look it up) 2. Chris Wanstrath (Co-founder). 2014 – 2018 (2018: Acquisition by Microsoft: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17227286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17227286) 3. Nat Friedman (Gnome/Ximian/Microsoft). 2018 – 2021 4. Thomas Dohmke (Founder of HockeyApp, some A/B testing thing, acquired by Microsoft in 2014). 2021 - 2025 There is no Github CEO now, it's just a team/org in Microsoft. (https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/)
- ashtom 8mo agoChris was also CEO from 2008 to 2012. Tom had 2012 to 2014. Nat's company Xamarin was acquired by Microsoft in 2016. HockeyApp wasn't A/B testing, but a platform for iPhone, Mac, Android, and Windows Phone developers to distribute their beta version (like what TestFlight is today to the App Store), collect crash reports (like what Sentry is today), user feedback, and basic analytics for developers.
- lysace 8mo agoThanks for the fact check :). The Ximian thing I wrote from obviously faulty memory (I now wonder if it was influenced by early 2000s Miguel's bonobo obsession), the rest from various google searches. Should have gone deeper.
- lysace 8mo agoNo, I was actually correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ximian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ximian Ximian, Inc. (previously called Helix Code and originally named International Gnome Support) was an American company that developed, sold and supported application software for Linux and Unix based on the GNOME platform. It was founded by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman in 1999 and was bought by Novell in 2003 ... Novell was in turn acquired by The Attachmate Group on 27 April 2011. In May 2011 The Attachmate Group laid off all its US staff working on Mono, which included De Icaza. He and Friedman then founded Xamarin on 16 May 2011, a new company to continue the development of Mono. On 24 February 2016, Microsoft announced that they had signed an agreement to acquire Xamarin.
- thom 8mo agoEither the models are good and this sort of platform gets swept away, or they aren’t, and this sort of platform gets swept away.
- heliumtera 8mo agoThey know hence: forget what it does, it was created by the ex CEO of another commonly used thingy!
- XorNot 8mo agoThe most interesting thing about everyone trying to position themselves as AI experts is the futility of it: the technology explicitly promises tomorrows models will be better then todays, which means the skill investment is deflationary: the best time to learn anything is tomorrow when a better model will be better at doing the same work - because you don't need to be (conversely if you're not good at debugging and reverse engineering now...)
- frogperson 8mo agoYou nailed it. Thats exactly how I feel. Wake me up when the dust settles, and i'll deep dive and learn all the ins and outs. The churn is just too exhausting.
- delichon 8mo agoYou might wake up in a whole different biome, Rip Van Winkle.
- beepbooptheory 8mo agoI don't get the pressure. I don't know about you, but my job for a long time has been continually learning new systems. I don't get how so many of my peers fall into this head trip where they think they are gonna get left behind by what amounts to anticipated new features from some SaaS one day. How do you both hold that the technology is so revolutionary because of its productive gains, but at the same time so esoteric that you better be ontop of everything all the time? This stuff is all like a weird toy compared to other things I have taken the time to learn in my career, the sense of expertise people claim at all comes off to me like a guy who knows the Taco Bell secret menu, or the best set of coupons to use at Target. Its the opposite of intimidating!
- iamleppert 8mo agoI don't want agent context tied to git commits. I just want infinite scroll in Claude Code and ability to search and review all my past conversations!
- LowLevelKernel 8mo agoI’m manually checking in Agent.md for every commit to improve the context window usage. Is that now automated?
- gbasin 8mo agoyou're doing what now?
- LowLevelKernel 8mo agoAren’t you maintaining Agent.md file that documents the actual context?
- ibejoeb 8mo ago>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.
- causal 8mo agoSame thought. If anything I'm usually trying to find ways to reduce how much context is carried over.
- ttoinou 8mo agoIsnt this overloading git commits too much ? Like 50kb per commit message
- ibejoeb 8mo agoGit is totally fine keeping a few extra text files. These are ephemeral anyway. The working sessions just get squashed down and eliminated by the time I've got something worth saving anyway. At that point, I might keep a overview file around describing what the change does and how it was implemented. (I will give the agent boom a bit of credit: I write a lot more documentation now, because it's essentially instruction and initial instruction to anything else that works on it. That's a total inversion, and I think it's good.) The bigger problem is, like others have said, there's no one true flow. I use different agents for different things. I might summarize a lot of reasoning with a cheap model to create a design document, or use a higher reasoning model to sanity check a plan, whatever. It's a lot like programming in English. I don't want my tool to be prescriptive and imposing its technical restrictions on me. All of that aside: it's impossible that this tool raised $60 million. The problem with this post is that it's supposed to be a hype post about changing the game "entirely" but it doesn't give us a glimpse into whatever we're supposed to by hyped about.
- ttoinou 8mo agothe git commits message description never go away though, unless you're editing the git with BFG cleaner
- mohsen1 8mo agoI am not willing to share my sheepish prompts with my team. Sorry!
- ibejoeb 8mo agoHah. "If it's not too much trouble, would you mind if we disable the rimraf root feature?" Gotta bully that thing man. There's probably room in the market for a local tool that strips the superfluous niceties from instructions. Probably gonna save a material amount of tokens in aggregate.
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- schaefer 8mo agoI'm with you. I start every new prompt with: "Good morning", even at midnight. I'll be so embarrassed if that leaks.
- LightBug1 8mo agoLOL
- singularfutur 8mo ago$60M seed to wrap git hooks in YAML config. The AI tooling bubble is just VCs subsidizing solutions looking for problems while developers want less complexity, not more.
- aftergibson 8mo agoChrist, a $60m seed round. The AI fatigue is real, and the cooling-off period is going to hurt. We’re deep into concept overload now. Every week it’s another tool (don’t get me started on Gas Town) confidently claiming to solve… something. “Faster development”, apparently. Unless you’re already ideologically committed to this space, I don’t see how the average engineer has the energy or motivation to even understand these tools, never mind meaningfully compare them. That’s before you factor in that many of them actively remove the parts of engineering people enjoy, while piling on yet another layer of abstraction, configuration, and cognitive load. I’m so tired of being told we’re in yet another “paradigm shift”. Tools like Codex can be useful in small doses, but the moment it turns into a sprawling ecosystem of prompts, agents, workflows, and magical thinking, it stops feeling like leverage and starts feeling like self-inflicted complexity.
- ttoinou 8mo agoMaybe just learning 1 or 2 of such tools is enough ?
- aftergibson 8mo agoProbably, but which ones, do we get to a place where you have X years experience in Gastown development, but I only have Y years experience in Entire. I also keep getting job applications for AI-native 'developers' whatever that means.
- ttoinou 8mo agoYou will learn a lot about the underlying LLM / technology whichever tool you use though
- ReptileMan 8mo agoHistory has shown that by delaying learning the next greatest tech, you may avoid learning it altogether.
- aspenmartin 8mo agoYour point about the overwhelming proliferation of AI tools and not knowing which are worth any attention and which are trash is very true I feel that a lot today (my solution is basically to just lean into one or two and ask for recommendations on other tools with mixed success). The “I’m so tired of being told we’re in another paradigm shift” comments are widely heard and upvoted on HN and are just so hard to comprehend today. They are not seeing the writing on the wall and following where the ball is going to be even in 6-12 months. We have scaling laws, multiple METR benchmarks, internal and external evals of a variety of flavors. “Tools like codex can be useful in small doses” the best and most prestigious engineers I know inside and outside my company do not code virtually at all. I’m not one of them but I also do not code at all whatsoever. Agents are sufficiently powerful to justify and explain themselves and walk you through as much of the code as you want them to.
- _el1s7 8mo agoEntire.io, the name is on point considering it asks for access to my entire GitHub account. But seriously, $300M valuation for a CLI tool that adds some metadata to Git commits. I don't know what to say.
- daredoes 8mo agoWhat's the long-term or even short-term strategy to make money? It's not like $60m in funding was given as charity.
- fakedang 8mo agoGeneral purpose agentic AI for enterprises since apparently that's the hot shit for 2026 now.
- raggi 8mo agoWhich CEO?
- AIorNot 8mo agoso github ci/cd agents rebranded as a startup? same team different company.
- carshodev 8mo agoI don't understand how this is different from giving an agent access to github logs? The landing page is terrible at explaining what it does.I guess they are just storing context in git aswell? So is this just a few context.md files that you tell the agent to update as you work and then push it when you are done???
- XCSme 8mo agoAll AI landing pages are so confusing, maybe because they are AI-built as well...
- paodealho 8mo agoSorry for not contributing to the discussion (as per the guidelines), but is it just me or this blog post reads a lot like LLM-filled mumble jumble? Seems like I could trim half of the words there and nothing would be lost.
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- dakolli 8mo agoAre people doing this thing now where they can't even judge a product, website by themselves? Or read and analyze anything without asking an LLM to do it for them. 2026: The year everyone fried their brain with Think for Me SaaS.
- murukesh_s 8mo agoTry driving without google maps. Its a slippery slope we common folks we are in and there is no coming back - except for few purists..
- dakolli 8mo agoI think there's a distribution of agency in humans, hence why we have insults like "npcs". Its probably not fair to use that word to describe people, but the cliche has some truth in it and I think a lot of tech exploits this. I personally rarely need to use google maps, and if I do its a glance at it on the beginning of a trip, and I can find my way there through normal navigation. I might look again if I get lost, whereas, I have friends that use it to give directions to go five blocks. I don't think sense of direction is innate either, but its a muscle you build and some people choose to not work on that muscle and they suffer the consequences, albeit minor consequences. I think we are seeing something similar with LLMs with the development and maintenance of reading, planning, creative and critical thinking skills. While some people might have a higher baseline, I think everyone has the ability to strengthen those muscles and the world implores us to do that in many situations, however, now we can pay Altman $0.0010 cents to offload that workout onto a GPU much like people do with navigation and maps. Tech companies love to exploit the dopamine driven response from taking shortcuts, getting somewhere quickly, its no different here. I think (/know) the implications of this are much more hazardous than consequences of not exercising your navigational abilities, and at least with navigation there are fallback to assist people (signs, landmarks ect). There are no societal fallbacks for llm assisted thinking once someone becomes dependent on it for all aspects of analysis, planning and creativity. Once it is taken away (or they can't afford a quality of output the previously did), where do those natural abilities stand? The implications are very terrifying in my opinion. I'm personally trying to stay as far away as possible from these things, I see where this is heading and its not as inconsequential as needing Maps to navigate 5 blocks. I do not want my critical thinking skills correlated 1:1 to the quality and quantity of tokens I can afford or have access too anymore than I do not want my navigational abilities correlated 1:1 to the quality of Maps service available to me. People will say that this is cope, its the new calculator, whatever.. Have fun, I promise you that not knowing trigonometry but having access to an LLM does not give you the ability to write CAD software. I actually think not using these will give you a huge competitive advantage in the future. Someone who has great navigation skills will likely win a navigational competition in the mountains, or survive longer in certain situations. While the scope of those skills is narrow, it still proves a point[0]. The scope of your reading, critical thinking, creativity and planning skills is not limited. [0]: It should be noted that some of the worlds most high agency and successful people actually participate in navigation as a sport called Orienteering, and spend boatloads of money in it.. I wonder why that is?
- rippeltippel 8mo agoAgents can save their reasoning into markdown files, and commit those files to Git. Are "Checkpoints" just a marketing term for that, or there's more to it?
- reubenmorais 8mo agoClaude Code already does this, you can access it with /resume, /rewind and /fork. I'd imagine building a version that saves in the repo instead of in the home folder would take very minimal effort.
- SkyPuncher 8mo agoThis is about doing it seamlessly and flawlessly then sharing it across a team.
- ElFitz 8mo agoSo using something like the compound engineering plugin and committing its "brainstorms", plans, and "solutions"?
- SkyPuncher 8mo agoNo, it's not. I can't get leadership's buyin on a Claude Plugin.
- dworks 8mo agoI built a skill for this: https://github.com/doubleuuser/rlm-workflow https://github.com/doubleuuser/rlm-workflow The readme is a bit more to the point.
- suralind 8mo ago$300kk valuation for git commits :) the bubble will pop at some point, I don’t know when, but boy will it be spectacular.
- ajbajb 8mo agoI did test it and use it and trashed it because there is very little value, actually none for me. These problems are easily being solved in other ways whoever has any experience with these tools. Getting $60M round for this stuff is ridiculous.
- heliumtera 8mo agoThe lack of explanation of what it is and does is a tell of what gullible audience they are seeking. Tech marketing has become a lot like dating, no technical explanation and intellectual honesty, just word words words and unreasonable expectations. People usually cannot be honest in their romantic affairs, and here it is the same. Nobody can state: we just want to be between you and whatever you want to accomplish, rent seeking forever! Will they ever care to elaborate HOW things works and the rationale behind stating this provides any benefit whatsoever? Perhaps this is not intended for those type of humans that care about understanding and logic?
- rglover 8mo agoNo, because the goal isn't to make things work. The goal is to make money by appearing to make things work. People who actually know don't tend to take ridiculous sums of money just to go tinker for a few years—they just build the damn thing and move on. The game here is perception and money—not necessarily competent engineering or legible products.
- zwaps 8mo agoI shall give the benefit of a doubt given they are "building in the open". I feel my current setup already does all this though, so I struggle to see the point
- ElFitz 8mo agoIt’s funny. The whole “review intent", "learning" from past mistakes, etc, is exactly what my current set up does too. For free. Using .md files said agents generate as they go.
- mococa 8mo agoI bet it will down/unstable 3/4 of the month.
- jwpapi 8mo agoI’m team Geoffrey Huntley
- jpease 8mo agoClicks through to see what Tom or Chris started… Oh, nevermind, it’s some MS dude.
- rnewme 8mo agoIronically, I was shortly contracting on PoC similar to this for ex github cofunder around this time last year.
- beoberha 8mo agoIgnoring the VC economics and awful name, I won’t be as pessimistic as everyone. I see the vision. That said, nobody knows what the AI future looks like. Entire’s entire thesis is a solution for something we don’t even know we need. It’s a massive bet and uphill battle. Traditionally, dev tool success stories come from grassroots projects of developers solving their own problems and not massive VC funded efforts that tell you what you need to do.
- ttul 8mo agoAnd yet, this is precisely what seed bets are about. You have to try it in order to know whether there is a "there" there.
- ushakov 8mo ago$1.5M seed bets, maybe. not $60M though
- ryan_n 8mo agoI feel like it says a lot if this is the not pessimistic take.
- beoberha 8mo agoMy pessimism is mostly rooted in the VC economics of it all. The vision is great, but its a busy space and there's no actual product or business. They basically wrote the guy a check to build the spaceship in space.
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- alansaber 8mo agoI actually feel like the LLM-driven AI future is relatively forseeable. It's only if we get a new, cooler architecture that we'll see a fundamental change to what we've kind of known for a while now
- mahmoudimus 8mo agoI see the vision here. I think this is extremely needed.
- straydusk 8mo ago> 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.
- hoten 8mo agoI see the utility in this as an extension to git / source control. But how do VCs make money of it?
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- konaraddi 8mo ago100% agree because there’s a lot of value in understanding how and why past code was written. It can be used to make better decisions faster around code to write in the future. E.g., if you’ve ever wondered why code was written in a particular way X instead of Y then you’ll have the context to understand whether X is still relevant or if Y can be adopted. E.g., easier to prompt AI to write the next commit when it knows all the context behind the current/previous commit’s development process.
- majormajor 8mo agoI wonder. How often will that context actually be that valuable vs just more bloat to fill up future API calls with to burn tokens.
- buster 8mo agoBut that's not what is in the whole context. The whole context contains a lot of noise and false "thoughts". What the AI needs to do is to document the software project in an efficient manner without duplication. That's not what this tool is doing. I question the value in storing all the crap in git.
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- agnosticmantis 8mo ago> 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. Whether or not useful for agent collaboration, the data here will be more valuable than gold for doing RL training later on.
- CosmicShadow 8mo agoThis sounds like a company idea someone just came up with yesterday off the cuff, pitched it, and got money for because of their credentials so no one can really say no to investing in it, despite nothing new or different? What's the service or product and how is it different than every 3rd Show HN?
- imagetic 8mo agoShoulda launched a new chat protocol to replace discord.
- xrd 8mo agoThis feels interesting because the real problem with AI generated code isn't that it is of better or worse quality than code written by a human, it's that we humans need to audit both types of code. And this platform feels like it addresses this in a novel and traditional way. I like it.
- guydi77 8mo agoAlready at a $300 million valuation at seed. Who’s going to join this as a regular IC who gets a pittance in options? I can’t imagine the risk matches the modest potential upside.
- falloutx 8mo agoThey'll hire one guy to vibe code like ai.com thing
- popcorncowboy 8mo agoThey'll raise at double that or more before the end of the year. The dynamics of the VC market right now are staggering to watch, but the money velocity is real, and this has "ex-CEO of Github" plus "AI". It's legit mania in VC world even as they're looking at each going "is this mania? Is it mania if you're asking if it's mania". The only rule right now is the music is playing so no-one wants to grab a chair. There's a sense this might come crashing down, but what's a player gonna do, sit on the side while paper markups are producing IRR that is practically unprecedented? This kinda has to end badly at this point.
- cheema33 8mo ago> this has "ex-CEO of Github" plus "AI". If they could top it off by stealing a janitor from OpenAI or Anthropic, the VCs might wet their pants with excitement.
- williamstein 8mo ago> Checkpoints run as a Git-aware CLI. On every commit generated by an agent, it writes a structured checkpoint object and associates it with the commit SHA. The code stays exactly the same, we just add context as first-class metadata. When you push your commit, Checkpoints also pushes this metadata to a separate branch (entire/checkpoints/v1), giving you a complete, append-only audit log inside your repository. As a result, every change can now be traced back not only to a diff, but to the reasoning that produced it. The context for every single turn could in theory be nearly 1MB. Since this context is being stored in the repo and constantly changing, after a thousand turns, won't it make just doing a "git checkout" start to be really heavy? For example, codex-cli stores every single context for a given session in a jsonl file (in .codex). I've easily got that file to hit 4 GB in size, just working for a few days; amusingly, codex-cli would then take many GB of RAM at startup. I ended up writing a script that trims the jsonl history automatically periodically. The latest codex-cli has an optional sqlite store for context state. My guess is that by "context", Checkpoints doesn't actually mean the contents of the context window, but just distilled reasoning traces, which are more manageable... but still can be pretty large.
- otterley 8mo agoTo 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.
- nihonde 8mo agoFeature plans generated by agents are often transient documents that fall away once the plan is executed. Ideally, that artifact would be preserved alongside the implementation. My experience is that Cursor's reliance on VS Code's clunky panel-based UI and jack-of-all-trades harness is holding it back. Likewise, Claude Code shoe-horning a GUI into a TUI and perma-binding to a single model family is not the ideal end-state. The VC play here? The git context CLI thing is a foundational step that lays the groundwork for a full IDE/workflow tool, I guess.
- woah 8mo agoI have an agent write a file with this template each run: ```markdown # Run NNNN ## First Impressions [What state is the project in? What did the last agent leave?] ## Plan [What will you work on this iteration? Why?] ## Work Log [Fill this in as you work] ## Discoveries [What did you learn? What surprised you? What should the next agent know?] ## Summary [Fill this in before committing] ``` This is surprisingly effective and lets agents easily continue in progress work and understand past decisions.
- Aeolun 8mo agoI have CURRENT_TASK.md that does more or less the same thing. It also gets committed to git. So I guess that’s entire? Wish I’d realized I was sitting on a 60M idea…
- willmarquis 8mo agoThe 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 right that simple approaches work. But they work at small scale. Once you have multiple agents across multiple sessions generating code in production, you hit the same observability problems every other distributed system hits: tracing, attribution, debugging failures across runs. The $60M question is whether that problem is big enough to justify a platform vs. teams bolting on their own logging. I'm skeptical—but the underlying insight (agent observability > agent orchestration) seems directionally correct.
- baggy_trough 8mo agoIt's not this, it's that?
- jascha_eng 8mo agoverbatim llm output with little substance to it. HN mods don't want us to be negative but if this is what we have to take serious these days it is hard to say anything else. I guess I could not comment at all but that feels like just letting the platform sink into the slopacolypse?
- paodealho 8mo agoYes—it is!
- RiverCrochet 8mo agoA. B isn't C—it's D1. E. But F, G: H1, H2... I. J—but D2 seems K.
- Aeolun 8mo agoOk, I’ll grant you that if they can get agents to somehow connect to other’s reasoning in realtime that would be useful. Right now it’s me that has to play reasoning container.
- clvx 8mo agoThis sounds like Spark with extra steps. If I’m not mistaken, some version of Spark had a feature to jump on different iterations of your prompts.
- warmreed 8mo ago[dead]
- resters 8mo agoI think the moat depends on how long it takes for an agent to ingest the entire commit history and product documentation into context on the fly. At the rate models are improving, seeing the reasoning chain of an outdated model that led to a commit that warrants post-hoc review (likely becuase of a bug) would mainly be useful for root cause analysis more than for insight into what to do next... but chances are the newer model would have been able to infer it from local context anyway. It also creates a challenge with respect with the embedding model chosen and how future proof it turns out to be.
- cstever 8mo agoWith the how AI companies are advertising we can just tell the AI what we want and it will be done with no additional human interaction needed, why do we need a new type of development platform? We shouldn't need to collaborate at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJUuJtGgkQg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJUuJtGgkQg * This is snarky. Yes. But seriously.
- rglover 8mo agoThe why is simple: "because we need the money." The idea is just a vehicle to get that money. Whether or not it works or makes sense is secondary to but does it make the children dream, pa-pa?
- bfung 8mo ago`/init` is good enough. Model improvements will take care of the rest.
- ef2k 8mo agoI landed on a similar vision last year. The more I thought about it, the moat felt fragile. GitHub or GitLab could build the same capabilities and become a natural extension of what teams already use. That said, it addresses a real problem, and the SDLC needs to evolve.
- btucker 8mo agoI hacked together something similar to the concept they describe a few months ago (https://github.com/btucker/agentgit https://github.com/btucker/agentgit) and then ended up not actually finding it that useful and abandoning it.
- redhale 8mo agoI feel like the value would be in analyzing those rich traces with another agent to extract (failure) patterns and learnings, as part of a flywheel setup. As a human I would rarely if ever want to look at this -- I don't even have time to look at the final code itself!
- btucker 8mo agoCompletely agree. But I wonder how much of that is just accomplished with well placed code comments that explain the why for future agent interactions to prevent them from misunderstanding. I have something like this in my AGENTS.md.
- stitched2gethr 8mo agoTry running `/insights` with Claude Code.
- redhale 8mo agoThere is no such command, according to the docs [0]. /s I continue to find it painfully ironic that the Claude Code team is unable to leverage their deep expertise and unlimited token budget to keep the docs even close to up-to-date automatically. Either that or they have decided accurate docs aren't important. [0] https://code.claude.com/docs/en/interactive-mode#built-in-commands https://code.claude.com/docs/en/interactive-mode#built-in-co...
- cheema33 8mo ago> value would be in analyzing those rich traces with another agent to extract (failure) patterns and learnings Claude Code supports hooks. This allows me to run an agent skill at the end of every agent execution to automatically determine if there were any lessons worth learning from the last session. If there were. new agent skills are automatically created or existing ones automatically updated as apporpriate.
- theptip 8mo agoI like the concept, but it seems like an obvious extension of where Anthropic is building with Tasks and Memory. What’s the moat? Cross-agent compatibility?
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- jmspring 8mo agoAgent memory can sometimes be handled with prompts, state output on completion, etc. Managing that can get messy if you aren't on the same system. I think "provenance gap" or temporal history can be helped by understanding what you have asked agentic systems to write, understand things written, and verified them. We aren't yet at a point where something large or extended is easily pushed to agentic coding management - your point of provenance and memory is key here.
- tbrownaw 8mo ago> The problem is that agent-written code has a provenance gap. When a human writes code, the reasoning lives in their head, in Slack threads, in PR descriptions. When an agent writes code, the reasoning evaporates the moment the context window closes. The described situation for human-written code isn't much better. What actually works is putting a ticket (or project) number in the commit message, and making sure everything relevant gets written up and saved to that centralized repository. And once you have that, the level of detail you'd get from saving agent chats won't add much. Maybe unless you're doing deliberate study of how to prompt more effectively (but even then, the next iteration of models is just a couple months away)?
- Rapzid 8mo agoSoooo.. It's like Git but on the intern... Er, with agents? On agents?
- zhyder 8mo agoHmm the whole point of checkpoints seems to be to reduce token waste by saving repeat thinking work. But wouldn't trying to pull N checkpoints into context of the N+1 task be MUCH more expensive? It's at odds with the current practice of clearing context regularly to save on input tokens. Even subagents (which I think are the real superpower that Claude Code has over Gemini CLI for now) by their nature get spawned with fresh near-empty context. Token costs aside, arguably fresh context is also better at problem solving. When it was just me coding by hand, I didn't save all my intermediate thinking work anywhere: instead thinking afresh when a similar problem came up later helped in coming up with better solutions. I did occasionally save my thinking in design docs, but the equivalent to that is CLAUDE.md and similar human-reviewed markdown saved at explicit -umm- checkpoints.
- xmcqdpt2 8mo agoYes I also don't see how having persistent context would help. For one, I don't want to read the slop the AI produced while it wrote the code. It doesn't have intent or thinking, it's a completion machine. The code is the artifact that matters, not the thousands of lines of "Your absolutely right --- I was wrong to ..." Also, sometimes it gets something very wrong. I don't want to then poison every subsequent sessions with the wrong thing it learned. This has been a major issue for me at $WORK with AGENTS.md files that my colleagues write: they make my agent coding much worse so I need to manually delete them often.
- warmreed 8mo ago[dead]
- anoojb 8mo agoI would argue the largest developer tools/services acquisition in recent history was GitHub (assuming you don't count RedHat in that category). GitHub was primarily an acquisition focused on acquiring the network of developers, based on the trust and cachet GitHub had earned, with the intent to upsell (land and expand) the developers at large Enterprise companies on downstream workflows and tools. If I were an employee looking to join Entire, or a developer evaluating the durability of Entire for my needs over the long-term, I'd ask things like — - What's the terminal value of a DevTool in the AI era? Is it closer to a standard 10x ARR? or maybe 100x...perhaps 1000x? - Is there value in the asset attributable to the network? If so, is it defensible? What is the likelihood protocols emerge that simply disintermediate the network moat of a AI agent memory company like Entire? - What kind of AI data are developers willing to silo with a single vendor? What kind of controls do Enterprises expect of an AI agent memory system? Can Entire reasonably provide them to grow in the next 12-24 months? - As a potential employee...if you join a company with a $60M seed funding and 19 employees, what is the ARR they need to achieve based on the first product in market in roughly ~12 months? $6M...$12M...20M? Is there a DevTools company that's ever done that!? What is the thesis for "this time is different"? Getting developers to pay for things is tough 'doncha know? Only then can you ask basic technical diligence questions — - Is Git a system that can scale to be the memory system and handle the kind of tasks that AI agents are expected handle? - Are the infrastructure costs for these early platform decisions here reasonable over the long-term? Or do they just run out of money? I wish them the best, and I hope employees get liquidity, and people take money off the table in a responsible way.
- sillyconwalle 8mo agoSome Tom Dick and Harry to VCs: I have a proposal for you. VCs: what is it Tom Dick & Harry: AI VCs: get the ** out of here, we already burnt enough money and will never see it back Tom Dick & Harry: hear me out this is different VCs: ok you have 5 minutes to explain me your product Tom Dick & Harry: I dont have one VCs: get the ** out of here Tom Dick & Harry: hear me out VCs: ok, you have 30 seconds to impress us. Tom Dick & Harry: I just quit Microslop and still have high level contacts there VCs: Hot damn!!! you are our lottery ticket to recoup all the money we have lost in other ventures. This is going to be a race against time, before your contacts go stale. Here's 60M for you, wine and dine your friends with it. On your way out you will find some AI generated product names and some vague product descriptions. Pick one and slap it on some website and announce our deal. Now get the ** out of here.
- phendrenad2 8mo agoI love this. Prompt engineering is a real skill, and learning by example is the best way to do it. Juniors being able to see how seniors actually did something is really powerful.
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- gherkinnn 8mo agoThe hype is the product
- ashtom 8mo agoI'd bet that less people had their source code on git in 2008 than the number of developers using the various coding agents today. And the open-source project that we published today hooks into the existing workflow for those developers, in Claude Code and in Gemini CLI. Time will tell the rest. We will publish regular updates and you can judge us on those results.
- jameslk 8mo agoAt least for me, I have felt like the chat history in an agent is often times just as important and potentially even more important than the source code it generates. The code is merely the compiled result of my explanations of intent and goals. That is, the business logic and domain expertise is trapped in my brain, which isn't very scalable. Versioning and tracking the true source code, my thoughts, or even the thoughts of other agents and their findings, seems like a logical next step. A hosted central place for it and the infrastructure required to store the immense data created by constantly churning agents that arrive at a certain result seems like the challenge many seem to be missing here. I wish you the best of luck with your startup.
- grey-area 8mo agoNatural language is in fact a terrible way to express goals, it is imprecise, contradictory, subjective, full of redundancies and constantly changing. So possibly the worst format to record business rules and logic. This lesson has been learned over and over (see AppleScript) but it seems people need to keep learning it. We use simple programming languages composed of logic and maths not just to talk to the machine but to codify our thoughts within a strict internally consistent and deterministic system. So in no sense are the vague imprecise instructions fed to LLMs the true source code.
- ashot 8mo agocheck out codecast.sh !
- ashot 8mo agocheck out https://codecast.sh https://codecast.sh !
- mdavid626 8mo ago> The game has changed. The system is cracking. No, it hasn’t. No, it isn’t.
- pharrington 8mo agoI do not want it.
- precompute 8mo agoGithub but this time they're capitalizing on "agent traces". Alright. *Terrible* name btw.
- chapz 8mo ago[flagged]
- grey-area 8mo agoMaybe he prefers to burn someone else’s money.
- mlnj 8mo agoDiversify.
- CamouflagedKiwi 8mo agoWhy burn his own money when he can get VC money instead?
- flakeoil 8mo agoIf he believes in the product he could have kept 100% of his company.
- AmazingTurtle 8mo agoMost of the time it's not about the money VCs send into it but the credibility that this brings. It looks a lot more mature when your idea is backed by a distribution of wealthy people.
- soerxpso 8mo agoHe kept 80%. The other 20% is owned by 8 different VCs. Seems like he's still in control. There's value in using other people's money instead of your own because it might make him less emotionally risk-averse in how he manages it.
- DANmode 8mo ago100% of something without any measurable adoption or scale can suck.
- chapz 8mo agoThe point is more - it's primary goal is not to enable developers to do more and better, it's primary goal is to _maximize shareholder value_. Important thing to keep in mind.
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- ChicagoDave 8mo agoCheckpoints are not granular enough. You have to grab a work summary before the context window closes, not when you decide to commit. I have thousands of work summaries from one project alone. I use them to traverse sessions. This is the agent that does the work: https://github.com/ChicagoDave/devarch/blob/main/docs/.claude/agents/work-summary-writer.md https://github.com/ChicagoDave/devarch/blob/main/docs/.claud... My success with Claude Code is directly related to this agent and its output.
- c-fe 8mo agointeresting. Do you have an example of what exactly it outputs and how you store that? how do you use the outputs? As a pointer to a new agent with fresh context to get them up to speed?
- ChicagoDave 8mo agoThis is the current context docs in my text adventure authoring platform Sharpee: https://github.com/ChicagoDave/sharpee/tree/main/docs/context https://github.com/ChicagoDave/sharpee/tree/main/docs/contex... Note I archive these to a different non-repo folder regularly. It's fun to tell Claude to go through them like a RAG implementation and note the progress of my development over time, which I update semi-regularly at: https://david.cornelson.net/sharpee-status-20260109.html https://david.cornelson.net/sharpee-status-20260109.html Now updated to https://david.cornelson.net/sharpee-status-20260211.html https://david.cornelson.net/sharpee-status-20260211.html
- port11 8mo ago60 million dollar idea and you’re giving it away for free!
- ChicagoDave 8mo agoYes. None of this early stuff should be monetized and that Entire business model is all about monetizing something that doesn't need it. I have hooks in Claude to auto-generate the work summary and read the last work summary on start. Now if I could only get Claude to quit/restart on its own or have it thoroughly flush its resources (even Anthropic says restarting is better), we'd be getting somewhere. I do wish there were automatic hooks that fire all the time (like a heart monitor) where I could query "if context is below 15%" do this: stop all work, write work summary, commit and push all changes, release all resources, read last work summary, continue the work. That would be awesome.
- jannesblobel 8mo agoImagine shipping a product, and a few weeks later, you see Thomas Dohmke raise $60M for almost the exact same idea. Some weeks ago we launched this: https://github.com/Legit-Control/monorepo/tree/main/examples/legit-code https://github.com/Legit-Control/monorepo/tree/main/examples... The idea was simple: keep AI prompts, intents, and conversations alongside your code and commits — basically treating AI interaction as first-class development artifacts. everything just plain Git We struggled to get momentum. Things happen. Now, less than 24 hours ago, Thomas announced Entire.io: “Entire CLI hooks into your git workflow to capture AI agent sessions on every push. Sessions are indexed alongside commits, a searchable record of how code was written.” That’s… very, very close to what we tried to build. Honestly, I love the vision and think this will matter a lot in the AI age. It’s validating to see someone with that reach betting big on it. Best of luck to Thomas and the team behind Entire.
- zild3d 8mo agoto be fair this is a pretty hot topic, that the work is shifting to the prompt/agent thread but then thrown out / not captured greg brockman https://x.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946 https://x.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946 > 6. Work on basic infra [...] there's a lot of infrastructure that currently go around the tools, such as observability, tracking not just the committed code but the agent trajectories that led to them, and central management of the tools that agents are able to use. peter steinberger (clawdbot/openclaw) https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-creator-of-clawd-i-ship-code https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-creator-of-cl... > Peter now views PRs as “prompt requests” and is more interested in seeing the prompts that generated code than the code itself
- jannesblobel 8mo agoAbsolutely, it's also cool to see that so much is happening here right now. Sometimes you need a bit of a network to get something like this off the ground. Building infrastructure is never easy.
- elAhmo 8mo ago60 million seed round? Delusional, I have no idea what investors are thinking.
- timini 8mo agoclearly this is a play to own all the agentic traces for further training
- timini 8mo agoclearly this is a plat to own all the agent traces for further training
- romanovcode 8mo agoFor 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.
- vidarh 8mo ago> 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 obsolete before they can even release something. FWIW, I had an agent adding archiving of the JSONL for changesets linked to the work they're doing right as I started looking at this article, as when you start automating a non-interactive agent flow it's such an obviously necessary step to be able to retrospectively improve the workflows.
- benterix 8mo agoThat's why several VC-funded AI companies are deliberately vague about what they are doing.
- 6031769 8mo agoThat is charitable of you. The alternative viewpoint is that they are vague about it because they have no idea what they are doing.
- vidarh 8mo agoI'm sure they have a vision of something but I also think the moat is narrow here. A lot of what these companies thinks will be "special sauce" will be unnecessary because the frontier models are advancing 6 months from now, and survival at that point will come down to extremely proficient execution to manage to stay ahead. (And most of these companies will not be good enough at that)
- MarcelOlsz 8mo agoHow do you handle the retreival aspect? So you have this set up and now what? >FWIW, I had an agent adding archiving of the JSONL for changesets linked to the work they're doing Would love to know more! Sounds interesting.
- jdiez17 8mo ago> Git repositories were never extended to version everything developers build with in the AI era. [... more fatalistic verbiage ...] A system that cannot be retrofitted for what's ahead. Two paragraph later: > Entire will be based on three key components: a git-compatible database [...] So which one is it?
- vorticalbox 8mo agocan the agent not simply be instructed to save the "why" in the commit message?
- lcnmrn 8mo agoEntire company as a protocol. Can GitHub implement this?
- igorpcosta 8mo agoI think it's extremely value what Thomas is doing with Checkpoints, I have this built in on autohand code cli that allows you to share with others your session /share https://autohand.link/s/ah-23wbbq4v2r5vt86684hg-1768476838 https://autohand.link/s/ah-23wbbq4v2r5vt86684hg-1768476838 You can see the turns, tools called, outputs, changes. Similar to what he's trying to achieve.
- 96khz 8mo agoso I'm guessing now I can finally say "go fix the bug" and the future agents can run blame on old tracked prompts, find the thought process behind a line themselves, and fix the bug?
- hakube 8mo agoNew buzzwords in the big 2026
- pistoriusp 8mo agoThe product isn't the software, it's your data. The VC's didn't give Dohmke $60m to build a new frontend for Git/ GitHub... They're going to capture your conversations and code with AI (The outcomes) and use that to train better models which they'll rent back at you.
- port11 8mo ago100%, and many developers are gonna fall for it. I’m off GitHub because I don’t think every corporation under the sun should profit off my work.
- EngineerBetter 8mo agoI made something very similar, in my spare time, last week. I didn't need $60m for it. https://github.com/re-cinq/claudit https://github.com/re-cinq/claudit What's amusing is that I specifically made a comedy license for it, because I thought trying to protect the IP of such a thing is madness in the AI-native era. Then within days I find out it's a massively funded startup! https://github.com/re-cinq/ai-native-application-license/ https://github.com/re-cinq/ai-native-application-license/ I've got Claude Code adding Gemini and OpenCode support to my tool currently.
- romanovcode 8mo agoIt doesn't seem to work if you use Claude plugins like feature-dev and commit-push-pr. I tested it with multiple PRs and I see nothing in GH nor Entire dashboard.
- protomikron 8mo agoIf you think about it, it makes sense. Say what you want about LLM-assisted software development, the chances are high that it will stay, meaning a non-trivial part of code will be written by an LLM. So is it better to have - git commit (mostly only code) - magic or blackblock (meaning back and forth by developer with LLM, before commit) - git commit (mostly only code) ... (rinse and repeat) or - git commit (prompt and/or code) - git commit (prompt and/or code) ... (rinse and repeat) Obviously for that to work the LLM output has to be deterministic and a commit chain has to be pinpointed to a specific weight blob.
- ozten 8mo agoThe demo shows a bunch of manual stuff that humans shouldn't be doing.
- vonneumannstan 8mo agoHow can the VC market sustain yet another Cursor clone? Jfc it needs to die
- dudeinhawaii 8mo agoI'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 <insert existing OSS> framework".. and then. holds hand out "MONEY PLEASE!"
- smugglerFlynn 8mo agoBecause 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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- herbst 8mo agoIs it just me or does "ex GitHub CEO" sound like it's going to be a bad project getting continuously worse and therefore is not worth to even look into!?