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the_duke 4 hours ago

I'm sure this seemed like a great idea a year ago (they first mentioned it with their Series B).

But a lot has changed in those 12 months.

Frontier models and coding agents have advanced so much that I don't really see much value in this anymore.

Not sure the DeltaDB based features really add anything significant compared to the alternatives.

I reckon the game here has to be adding a service that stores the data and runs agent sessions?

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markstos 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To be fair: a year ago the editor was in the center and the AI chat was in the sidebar-- Cursor.

Here they've moved the AI chat to the center and code editor has been pushed to the side.

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alerighi 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For me it's probably time to learn to use vim or something similar. I'm the only one that likes coding manually, without all this AI shit? I'm faster writing code myself than trying to explain to artificial stupidity what I intend to do and correct its output. And if I write it myself the code just works, if it's written by the AI it has a ton of bugs. I don't see any value in AI generated code that is not mere code for doing experiments that you don't care about.

	▲	pimeys 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hey me too. This is my morning Zen moment refactoring and cleaning some code before I go back to the agent to earn money. One of the only things that helps me to relax is to do some manual coding...

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bakugo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The obvious next step is to remove the code editor entirely.

	▲	apsurd 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It seems reasonable that a professional-tier of software developers will have tools distinct from everyone else. No matter what the percentage looks like, experts will still be a thing that needs different things.

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zcaceres 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The product is not an IDE, it is exactly the agent-native experience you're saying is required for current gen models.

	▲	the_duke 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I guess my main point is that the additional features on top of DeltaDB don't seem terribly important to me anymore, compared to the alternatives.