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Posted by meetpateltech 13 hours ago

Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents(entire.io)
360 points | 319 commentspage 4
codegeek 11 hours 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.

clvx 3 hours ago||
This 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.
999900000999 8 hours ago||
I 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.

taude 8 hours ago||
Isn't that basically what things like this are for, open source, free.... https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
jasondigitized 8 hours ago||
Shouldn't this tool be agnostic to the models? Seems like a 3rd party is the way to go.
ImJasonH 12 hours ago||
Checkpoints 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 (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 12 hours ago|
Ah 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

zwaps 6 hours ago||
I 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 6 hours ago|
It’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.
ontouchstart 8 hours ago||
I miss the good old days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=338286

rgxsh 11 hours ago||
The 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.

dang 58 minutes ago||
Personal attacks aren't allowed here, so I've banned the account. If you want to use HN as intended, you'd be welcome to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and then email hn@ycombinator.com with a reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
ashtom 11 hours ago|||
Founder 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.
dang 57 minutes ago|||
Glad 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 to make that clear.

In this case I think the root problem is that the OP (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).

LightBug1 5 hours ago||||
But ... what have you done lately?

(I jest ... kudos).

biffit 11 hours ago|||
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keithba 5 hours ago||
This comment is both wrong and mean-spirited.

I’ve worked with ashtom for over a decade. He’s a coding machine - easily one of the most technical executives (who ships real production code.)

OliverGilan 12 hours ago||
disclosure: 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

ashtom 12 hours ago||
Entire CEO here. We are going to be building in the open and full stack open source, but great to see alternatives.
hbarka 10 hours ago|||
Did 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 5 hours ago|||
Another 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 5 hours ago||
Time will tell how small that corner is. ;)
conartist6 5 hours ago||
Certainly! 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 4 hours ago||
Oh I don't think I need this if all of my commits are AI!
bfung 3 hours ago||
`/init` is good enough.

Model improvements will take care of the rest.

krashidov 12 hours ago|
There is also Git AI: https://github.com/git-ai-project/git-ai https://usegitai.com/
addcn 11 hours ago|
love 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
krashidov 5 hours ago||
yep 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)

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