rsanheim

If we lived in a world where people or agents could define those service boundaries up front, correctly, with some reasonable foresight for change on the horizon ...then sure...I'd agree.

However, our world is not that world. Your agents may be happy in their tiny walled kingdom of toil and ineffectiveness, but you and your users will not. Poorly drawn service boundaries will drag you down more than almost any other architectural mistake.

If there is one universal amongst organizations, its that they love walls and silos. Be wary of putting them up ahead of time, cuz tearing them down once established is nearly impossible.

filter is also just filter in ruby - aliased as select (and find_all) on Enumerable.

> has Gas Town shipping something in public that can be evaluated without all of this surrounding hype and blogposting?

No.

This post sets up a straw man from the outset, and only gets worse from there.

I understand how we got here, where many experienced programmers, managers, and bloggers only know capital-A Agile as the watered down version sold via certifications, crummy medium posts, and atlassian flavored kanban boards. But that isn't agile.

I can’t even with the pitch into spec driven development as some sort of high watermark of software methodology.

Bragging about loc was silly before ai. Now it’s not only silly, but also makes you look like a huge tool.

Wow. So much hate in the comments here. Of all the funding / equity events lately, I wonder how this one gets so much doubt and distrust from the start.

If this isn’t something to at least root for, in the sense of a small team, novel product, serving a real need, then I dunno what is. You can use jj or tangled and still appreciate improvements to git and vcs on the web in general. Competition amongst many players is a good thing, even if you don’t believe in this one particular vision.

Heaven forbid it isn’t 100M going to a YC alum for yet another AI funding raise.

Yeah /simplify is your friend. That and constrained prompts - “refactor x for simplicity - resulting diff must remove n lines of code. Dont change tests. “

Wait what. For real? I knew their security posture was bad, but this bad??

This has been the case for 15-20 years at least. It’s only now that the horrible experience for regular users is so obvious compared to Linux becoming quite good, and Mac OS ranging from fine to meh.

The continual recall/ai push from Microsoft has not helped at all and is pretty gross. There is a way to do a “recall” style thing that some folks will really want if they can trust it. The msft approach has been the opposite of that.

If you believe this has any long term staying power at MSFT, I have a bridge to sell you paid for with MSFT stock funded by quarterly earnings reports.

Yes. This. Too little too late MSFT.

And it really comes down to $MSFT. If the stock keeps dropping, how long do you think any real commitment to “quality” for a boring, low(no?) revenue product will last? Very little when the ad/partner revenue really starts flowing for “ai focused metrics” that can directly tie to windows surveillance (ie recall).