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by digitaltrees 2 days ago
I am building a coding harness, and I see evidence of them doing this with agentic harnesses and scaffolding. It feels clear to me that as they expand in to the app layer, the window of using their API to build agentic apps is closing, they will steal your ideas, implement the product and then close the gate. I am creating my own inference stack because their incentive to block competitors is becoming super clear.
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hackmack10 2 days ago
No offense, but the sad thing is, everyone and their mother is working on this same problem. I'm also building a harness. It's feeling like, there is no moat, there is no way to get ahead, they will steal your idea one way or another, if you ever make it public.
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digitaltrees 1 day ago
No offense taken. I am not building it for fame or profit.

I built it because I wanted cursor on my phone because I have two small kids and don’t want to be chained to my desk. And it’s awesome. It’s a full ide with agent chat, terminal and file system running in a remote Linux container. I can review diffs, fully manage git and preview/serve apps. And no one can ever take it away from me :)

I am watching the way things are progressing with the ai api vendors and it feels really clear that depending on them will soon be dangerous. So I an furiously building as much of my own infrastructure to capture some autonomy with these capabilities

So I think everyone should build a harness.

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hackmack10 1 day ago
Exactly, that is my goal and thoughts as well. I wish you the best in these crazy times. Let's ride this wave.
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digitaltrees 8 hours ago
I am happy to share thoughts and collaborate if you’re interested. What are you working on specifically? My project is www.propelcode.app
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blackqueeriroh 1 day ago
What, exactly, is new about any of this?
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digitaltrees 1 day ago
When they launched their business model was to be a pure API for intelligence. Then when everyone claimed they were just commodities with no moat and they shifted hard to being the app layer. That was the transition.

They went from selling shovels to all gold prospectors to stealing the information about the location of the gold so they could dig it out first.

We are all stupid enough to keep buying shovels from them because we think their shovels dig gold better and faster.

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