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"vector databases are dead"

I've been reflecting over the last few months about Cursor/Windsurf and how the twitter commentariat broadly dismissed startup challengers in AI coding in 2023. The common wisdom then was that Github was untouchable. They had amazing brand visibility. They were the first-mover

Various: - The "cursor for text editing" doesn't exist. The killer feature isn't text generation; it's an AI reviewer. Have I been factual, logically consistent? Are there other ideas I should have considered? "Writing is thinking". The tools should help us think better, not

This was a good post from over 10 years ago, with relatively low citation. medium.com/@ataussig/high…

What is the best steel-man for the neon acquisition? I find the AI angle pretty unconvincing. Postgres for vibe-coded apps probably doesn't need enterprise scale or tighter integration with the lakehouse... So recent AI traction for Neon seems like a red herring. What seems

Will be in SF this coming week. Would love to hang with mutuals or folks building something radical in dev tools or next-gen AI. A few recent areas of interest:

detailed prompts make AI agents much more effective but people have a hard time writing them. so our AI for code company Augment Code uses its real time codebase retrieval to add important details like files and symbols.

You have MPF (Model-Product Fit) when your product: • gets better when the models get better • uses (SOTA) models to the best of their abilities • isn't overfit to today's model capabilities and can evolve Like Product-Market Fit (PMF), you know it when you have it.

This is a good argument for higher-level languages in which you specify only what you actually care about—and the details fall out of constrained optimization. It’s not a good argument for today’s vibe coding practices, except insofar as they are a primitive form of the former.

Various: - Are we really at a post-IDE moment? Not yet. But I do think that as we get more comfortable offloading work to agents, a lot of strategic value accrues to whatever system we use to plan and document our work. The meta that the industry still hasn't fully calibrated

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The key primitives of an agent runtime continue to reveal themselves. Excited to see what developers can build now that Daytona enables dynamic docker image builds, persistent shared volumes and more.

I continue to be intensely interested in finding the team that figures out how to productize spec driven development.

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