13 comments

  • lukebuehler8 minutes ago
    Very cool demonstration of managed agents built for the needs of their own business.<p>I think this is where a lot of companies are going to go: on-prem platforms that give various teams access to agents that are as powerful as coding agents, but much more managed and governed.<p>I&#x27;m betting on this with my open source project, Lightspeed: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;smartcomputer-ai&#x2F;lightspeed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;smartcomputer-ai&#x2F;lightspeed</a>
    • hmokiguess0 minutes ago
      Your project seems way better than the stuff they built, nice work.
  • ianpurton9 minutes ago
    They don&#x27;t really say why they built their own rather than using one of the open source solutions like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bionic-gpt&#x2F;bionic-gpt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bionic-gpt&#x2F;bionic-gpt</a>
    • NichoPaolucci5 minutes ago
      Size and scale, I would think. An out of the box solution probably doesn&#x27;t quite have the same capabilities as something they can (and now have to) manage in it&#x27;s entirety.<p>Stripe probably WANTS to be opinionated about how their company works with the tools.
  • hek2sch26 minutes ago
    I read a buzz word &quot;Knowledge AI Platform&quot; but I did not see any specific feature helpful for knowledge management like verification or transparency. It is more like any generic Agent builder. Maybe it meant to justify building something internally.
  • atonse30 minutes ago
    Ahhh I built an internal set of agents to run our company (finances, all info in the karpathy-style LLMWiki and a database of clients, contracts, billing, time tracking, all managed by MCPs, etc) and it&#x27;s also called Kai (company name is Kaizen)<p>Happy to be in such good company!
    • infecto29 minutes ago
      All hand written or did you have any underlying libraries that you used?
  • wenbin8 minutes ago
    so is it like CloudflareOS ? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloudflare&#x2F;cloudflare-os" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloudflare&#x2F;cloudflare-os</a><p>seems every company that has spare engineering resource all builds such thing internally
  • anonzzzies37 minutes ago
    TIL people still fall for eh I mean use Langchain. Sorry, low value comment; I don’t know how to do that differently; it is such bad garbage since day one and strangely it did not improve. Sorry anyway for the comment, at least it was not LLM generated?
    • simlevesque20 minutes ago
      There&#x27;s like 1000 langchain alternatives and none are good, they&#x27;re all vibe-coded unstable projects.<p>I use Apache Burr but it&#x27;s not as good as LangChain. I just don&#x27;t want to use software whose website has a pricing page if it&#x27;s not a SAAS.
    • bogdanoff_230 minutes ago
      To make your comment more high value, could you explain why you think langchain is bad?
      • ramraj0710 minutes ago
        It (and most other systems) abstract the wrong concepts when you want to create an agent. They promote what was likely never a great strategy but even parsimoniously what are strategies that were good ideas months or a year back.<p>For example how langchain or whatever else handles subagents and deep research is laughable even today.<p>So whats the recommendation? Just use pydantic and code everything up yourself. Maybe strands I dont know.
    • mawadev30 minutes ago
      I have a hard time keeping up with the space. Is langchain old news? Is there a page that kind of shows what the status quo for tooling is?
      • infecto28 minutes ago
        +1 would love to know as well. I have generally found the open source space to be lacking in this area and hoping it catches up!
    • realsarm31 minutes ago
      Yes, I also thought it&#x27;s crap the moment I saw they need langchain to develop a harness.
    • infecto30 minutes ago
      Instead of spending half the comment reflecting on your post why not point out what you don’t like about it or some better alternatives?
  • olliebrkr8 minutes ago
    Dang it, I just named my newborn son Kai. At least I didn’t go with Alexa..
  • Bluestein21 minutes ago
    Somebody probably mentioned this already <i>or</i> maybe its just me but: The &quot;endless scroll&quot; this page does is neat, to say the least.-
    • wiether16 minutes ago
      I just hear Steve Ballmer yelling
      • Bluestein15 minutes ago
        [Bad mental image ... can&#x27;t unsee ...] :)
  • olliebrkr8 minutes ago
    Dammit, I just named my newborn son Kai.
  • adithyassekhar23 minutes ago
    This site could use a bit more line height, more paragraphs, or less text overall.
  • quijoteuniv27 minutes ago
    But no darkmode support? … :D
  • dominotw17 minutes ago
    oh not these guys again. These are just so idiotic.<p>Spotify built some nonsense like this too and made ridiculous claims that it saves 90 percent of tokens. I guess anything goes these days.
  • pushpendraw8 minutes ago
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