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by rileymichael
298 days ago
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to be direct, there's really nothing for you to do — it's a branding issue. if i were to link graphite to any of the devs i know that are actually interested in improving their development workflow, they would immediately close out after one look at the landing page. they have zero interest in AI and certainly won't pay for it to be shoved down their throats. graphite is now perceived as an AI company first, not a developer company. you state that users don't 'have to use ANY of our AI features' — does that mean you have an opt-out toggle that fully hides any mention of it (e.g. in your 'AI-powered PR page')? if so, how long will that stick around? how long will your core products remain unsullied once your investors start to pressure you to push AI more? these sort of concerns around long term direction keep myself and others from adopting graphite. |
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we have a number of large customers that feel the same way and are fully opted out of anything AI-related.
in my experience, our foremost goal is bring graphite to more people. i have seen many cases where folks get us in the door with diamond and then begin championing stacking which leads to a ton of organic spread that it otherwise may not get.
we have seen a ton more signal that ai is the easier way to get more committed folks in the door than signal that we are losing potential customers over having it as an option. if that were not true, we probably would not have gone in this direction.
i would love for graphite-lovers to make more noise about stacking as well and see no reason it can't happen in parallel - every month i see more and more conversations about stacking happening in the wild, and more and more of them reference us directly!