Unsure if this was AI generated, but doesn't pass close scrutiny:
"winner takes all of a massive market, first mover wins"
...this is the kind of AI spam that sounds convincing until you think about it.
It's not at all clear the foundation model or coding agent markets are winner takes all. Far more likely to be a handful of successful players based on the market so far.
First mover wins? OpenAI was first to market and looks in trouble.
There's something convincing about this kind of cliche that lets it slip past you until you start inspecting each claim.
The whole point of AI is that it can generalise to stuff outside its training set, and anyone who uses Claude on a daily basis completes tasks that have not already been completed elsewhere.
These models excel at tool use. They’re using CRMs, word processors and dozens of other systems that weren’t programmable before - lots of tools have opened MCP/API/CLI interfaces for the first time specifically to support AI, and it works.
I don’t know where this meme comes from, but we haven’t “invented the last language” and we’re not going to be frozen in 2023 for tooling, any more than the Industrial Revolution led to automation of artisan workshops rather than the invention of the modern factory system.
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that if you make "Django, but different" it isn't for agents.
Django, but different is not a "tool use" situation. It is a framework with a ton of conventions and libs, etc. Agents will be better able to write Django than "Django, but different". Will they work with your new libraries? Of course. They're very good at all sorts of coding tasks, and they can read docs, search the web, experiment, and correct themselves in an agentic context even absent any relevant training data. But, what may have been a one-shot with Django code, might require several tries with your new thing.
That is not an argument against making new things. I'm not make any argument against making new things, anywhere in this thread. My argument is that if you make "Django, but different", it isn't "for agents", because agents already know Django and they know your new thing considerably less. Your new thing is more work for the agent.
My comment is about being honest with yourself and others about what you're building and for whom.
This Show HN post doesn't seem to be by the author and it's not presenting the project in a good way in my opinion. I also don't like the agent framing of the project home page, but after reading the about, I'm willing to tone down my criticism.
The framework seems like an interesting project to keep an eye on.
Anyone who has watched Ubar constantly break across macOS updates will understand the point of a subscription fee. It’s non trivial to maintain and I doubt vibe coding is gonna help.
Unsure if you want the real answer, but the financials on gitv2 will be much more appealing to a VC. Hardware is hard, slow, expensive, risky. Finally, China is the place to build physical things not the US.
What would "the financials" be on a git replacement? No one makes money on git itself. Probably not much even on the services around git, given that Microsoft funds github for its own reasons, and gitlab is constantly running out of money.
I have no real interest in this chat, but a quick google makes me agree that Hal Finney was very likely Satoshi. Fits my
expectations perfectly and would also explain why it’s a “mystery”, ie some people know but agreed not to reveal it as per Hal or family wishes given their targeting by criminals in the past. Extremely plausible.
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