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  adamgordonbell
  I talked to JP about this project. He's excited in a way that's hard not to catch. His core thesis is simple: coding agents are the future, and the winners will be the ones who can execute.It won’t be OpenAI or Claude. They have other priorities. The real opportunity is for small teams who move fast, stay close to users, and keep ahead of the pack.That makes sense. LLMs are already powerful, almost magical at times. But using them as coding agents still takes real work. They can do amazing things, and be frustrating and make a mess. There are rough edges and big gaps.Those will get fixed. The question is who gets there first.The counterpoint to that would be that all these tools are gonna end up sort of the same and there won't be a way to differentiate.Which way will it play out? I'm not really sure.
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  realharo
  >We want to build for the dream of billions of programmers; billions of artists; billions of scientists—using computing as moldable clay.At that point, why even keep humans in the loop. Just let it exist in the background and generate better ideas than any human would anyway.
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  xnx
  Gemini 2.5 seems to be the current king of AI coding. In addition to being "smart", it has a huge context window. The one-shot examples on Twitter are astounding.
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  janpaul123
  JP here! Would love to answer your questions!We listed a bunch of ideas for larger improvements in the blog: Instant app; Up-to-date docs; Prompt/product-first workflows; Browser IDE; Local/on-prem models; Live collaboration; Parallel-agents; Code variants; Shared context; Open source sharing; MCP marketplace; Integrated CI; Monitoring/production agents; Security agents; Sketching..What would you like us to build?
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  tristor
  To be honest, I have yet to use any GenAI tool that makes me feel like it can replace me just writing code (I write this as an Engineer turned PM, that would really like the promise of GenAI to be true). What I'd actually like to see more than anything is a GenAI "agent" that can act like the /user/ of my software to help me identify gaps in documentation as the software changes and the documentation drifts/becomes stale, and generally help me to explore code paths that are off the happy path but will get hit by real users. I think there's a lot more value in having GenAI help me test/document my work than in trying to do my work, because I will always write higher quality code than GenAI can produce.
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  bluelightning2k
  I usually support everything but isn't this literally just "we are trying to fork roo code and pay $15 of your tokens so we can show VCs that we have users" - as in people like free money. But that wouldn't be enough of a bribe to justify using the fork over the real project for me at least
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  quikoa
  >We don't take any cut, either per token or per top-up. In the future we'll add more LLM providers.So where does the money come from?
• yapyap
  > Since then I’ve been thinking a lot about AI agents. They’re the closest I’ve seen to the dream of “programming for all”Programming is programming for all, you just have to put some effort in. This is alike to saying you wish there was a ‘Spanish for all’ so you invented Google Translate
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  cpldcpu
  Their approach seems very compelling, but I don't understand if/how they are building a differentiated product? The space of code agents is already pretty crowded.
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• rounce
  Is this a real open source project or a pretend 'source (maybe-kinda) available' kinda thing where the really useful part is stuffed behind a paywall and the 'open source' part is just to lure you into the walled garden?
• jiri
  how is it different from roo code or github copilot?
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  suddenlybananas
  >This success taught me an important lesson: an extremely fast-moving community can achieve incredible thingswhat a trite observation
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  handfuloflight
  "Our goal is to rapidly make the software better, not to have a shiny website."Weird flex, but OK.
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  oulipo
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  ilrwbwrkhv
  What is so problematic now about Silicon Valley is that the true lesson of hackers have been completely lost.The primary purpose of the hacker mindset was protection against groupthink and cargo culting. And now it seems all people in tech only cargo cult and only groupthink.
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  heymax054
  $15 worth of Claude 3.7 tokens? Does this translate to 3 “hello world” files?