6 comments

  • weego31 minutes ago
    The landing page looks lovely, but the examples shown have no foundation in my head for what they&#x27;re doing &#x2F; showing &#x2F; helping with.<p>It&#x27;s confusing enough that I don&#x27;t know if this is just way above my knowledge level or whether I just don&#x27;t understand what it even is.<p>It feels like you&#x27;ve developed something really useful but it&#x27;s so internally obvious in your own head that it&#x27;s missing some steps in the explanation for everyone else on how to come along with you and see the power of it.
    • 0x106222 minutes ago
      Yes ha this is very accurate unfortunately.<p>I&#x27;m actually using Radix right now to brainstorm and update the example on the landing page to be more descriptive.<p>If it helps: the basic idea is that instead of an agent returning text or markdown we get it to return HTML. We then provide an app which makes working with that HTML actually useful (i.e. a sidebar to list the tools you&#x27;ve built, a way of commenting on the pages it generates).<p>The most trivial example I can think of is creating a simple colour picker. With Radix you can get an agent to add a colour picker that updates the code directly when you change its value (as explained further in [1]).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radix-os.com&#x2F;notes&#x2F;hello" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radix-os.com&#x2F;notes&#x2F;hello</a>
    • kdkdkfndjfb10 minutes ago
      Yeah, I don’t really see the point of it just glancing at the website. In fact, that little stack of activity notifications at the bottom seem quite obstructive and unintuitive, not sure if it’s part of the product but as a UI element it looks… off.
      • 0x10623 minutes ago
        (It&#x27;s not part of the free version since that works with your existing agent and you interact with it however you normally would).<p>The message stack in the bottom are the agent replies as it works. The idea is to move away from an array of messages as the primary interface with an agent and instead make the tools the primary interface. Whether that&#x27;s actually helpful is an open question but it&#x27;s certainly how I prefer to work now that I&#x27;ve been building with it.
  • notuger7 minutes ago
    I thought it was a new product from the Radix UI team focused on agents. The name is actually pretty confusing.
    • 0x10622 minutes ago
      Yes sorry I may need to change that.
  • Topfi57 minutes ago
    Is this affiliated with WorkOS and the long going Radix UI component primitives?
    • 0x106250 minutes ago
      Nope, this is an entirely separate product and I have no affiliation with the people who worked on Radix UI, or with WorkOS.
      • chrisweekly10 minutes ago
        You&#x27;ll want to strongly consider rebranding with a different name. Way too easily confused.
  • kambli71 hour ago
    What does the term agentic programming means over here?
    • 0x10621 hour ago
      Using agents to write code
  • __MatrixMan__16 minutes ago
    Is there a <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radix_tree" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Radix_tree</a> somewhere in there?
    • 0x106214 minutes ago
      Haha no sadly not, the name was chosen purely because I like the sound of it.
  • grenoire37 minutes ago
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    • dang13 minutes ago
      Can you please make your points thoughtfully and not respond to people&#x27;s work by ranting at them?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;showhn.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;showhn.html</a>
    • 0x106235 minutes ago
      It&#x27;s an example of an algorithm that can be complex to read in code, but is more approachable when viewed as a diagram -- a perfect case for a tool like this.<p>Also thank you for your feedback and taking the time to view the landing page at least!