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Comment · 7 months ago
Yeah. Great callout. You basically need signal all the way to production. Did it get nuked during a code review? Is it still running 2 mo later? How many incidents were caused by this code?
This is tough though because enterprises go absolutely ballistic over “training on our data” - which is understandable, but will also hold us back.
Comment · 8 months ago
This reduces down to the problem of summarization - a quite difficult one. At commit time it’s difficult to know what questions readers will have. You can get close but never all the way there.
Pre AI when engineers couldn’t find the answer in commit messages or documentation they would ask the author “why” and that human would “compute” the summary on demand.
I think that’s what I expect to do with these agent sessions - I don’t want more markdown, I want to ask it questions on demand. Git AI (https://github.com/git-ai-project/git-ai) uses the prompts that way. I think that model will win out. Save sessions. Read/ask questions relevant to the current agent’s work.
On asking peers. This is regrettably on the way out today - I’ll ask engineers about complex code they generated and they can’t give good answers. I think it’s because it all happened so fast — they didn’t sit with the problem for 48 hours. So even if they steered the agent thoughtfully it’s hard to remember all the decisions they made a week later.
Comment · 8 months 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
Comment · 11 months ago
Interesting idea. We are exploring a Git AI MCP now. Hopefully a lot of this data can raise the agent’s IQ a few points.
Comment · 1 year ago
Feel like there’s a ton of interesting things ahead for SCM — want to see more of those proposals.
For example…had to build my own tool to extend git blame and track the AI generated code in our repository and save prompts:
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes this. First thing I thought — don’t even have the prod credential anywhere near my machine
Comment · 1 year ago
Congrats Eric!
Comment · 1 year ago
A huge % of animal synapses seem to contribute to motor control and signal processing.
It’s interesting how a relatively small # of synapses can do all abstract reasoning when free from those concerns.
Take the pre-frontal cortex, leave the rest.
Comment · 1 year ago
I met Marshall a few times. He was a good teacher and someone who had a positive impact on several successive classes of students who wanted to start companies and build meaningful products + technologies on that campus.
And I trust (quite a bit) that whatever he brought to light should be followed up on - if no other reason than to respect his memory. I hope it is taken seriously and those who retaliated find themselves w/o their positions of responsibility and power over other faculty.