GitHub is going to go after this too (unsurprisingly). Working "Ace" prototype from Github "lab."
replyThe problem description is spot on, but the solution isn't. No-one is going to sit in that chat and "collaborate" on each other's stuff in real time all day. You may as well just all sit around a screen.
replyI welcome the experimentation, there will definitely be something new, but this ain't it. New primitives are needed, at a higher level of conceptualization, not merely a fancy new interface.
> writing code is now fast, it's getting cheaper, and quality is going up to the right
I swear I've heard that exact phrase repeated over and over by many people
replyMany people believe it’s true.
replyMy hobby projects have 100x more tests than they used to, because LLMs are great at writing tests. And my subjective experience is that the net quality has increased as a result.
YMMV, but it’s certainly a common belief, and for me at least a lived experience.
the presenter is pretty sane, but the product is hardly a product at the current scenario. pretty much codemirror 6 collaborative editing demo + vm running claude code, with a web GUI. will fall apart with large code bases just like vscode, github codespaces and co. do, and expensive for llms to run against. Would be nice to see the foundational problems being worked on instead of regurgiting what everybody is doing.
replyThat's immediately addressed in the talk. It's a GH Labs experiment.
replyAnd of course harness [1] (I kid, this is my tiny personal project in the same space)
replycorrect - our business is our agent and orchestrator, not our terminal.
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