[shykes]

> Sad to see Earthly halting development and Dagger jumping on the AI train :(. Hopefully we'll get a proper alternative.

Hi, Dagger CEO here. We're advertising a new use case for Dagger (running AI agents) while continuing to support the original use case (running complex builds and tests). Dagger has always been a general purpose engine, and our community has always used it for more than just CI. It's still the exact same engine, CLI, SDKs and observability stack. It's not like we're discontinuing a product, to the contrary: we're getting more workloads on the platform, which benefits all our users.

[jalaziz]

Great to know. I think the fear is that so many companies are prioritizing AI workloads for the valuation bump rather than delivering actual meaningful value.

[shykes]

I completely understand that fear. I see lots of other tech companies making that mistake, throwing away a perfectly good product and market out of pure "FOMO". I really, really don't want us to be one of those companies.

I think what we're doing is different: we built a product that was always meant to be general purpose; encouraged our community to experiment with alternative use cases; and are now doubling down on a new use case, for the same product. We are still worried about the perception of a FOMO-driven AI pivot (and the reactions on this thread confirm that we still have work to do there); but we're confident that the product really is capable of supporting both.

Thank you for the thoughtful comments, I appreciate it.