Yeah, makes perfect sense, but you really lose a lot.

I built a GitHub-native coding / review agent that outperforms CodeRabbit (by a lot), and it only took me like two hundred hours. There are a few of us using it at work, meanwhile CodeRabbit is valued at $550M.

Do you have paying customers? Putting money into customer acquisition and retention is where a lot of money can go versus R&D.

No, I don’t. I built it inside of my employer’s walls (hedge fund), so I’d have to rebuild it from scratch in order to acquire paying customers (not a bad idea).

True, from scratch, may need to be cautious regarding re-creating it having built it on your employer's time and machinery/property, check your employment contract. Still very cool that you built this!

Would anyone at Google be willing to tell me how many people are working on this project? I’ve been building something functionally similar for my employer, but it’s a nights and weekends project with only one contributor (me).

Why would you build something for your employer in your personal time?

You're literally putting your own money in the shareholders pockets.

Social currency, I guess. I work on the AI team, so it’s just part of the job.

A cheese knife.

How do you use two of these massive monitors? They are stacked vertically?

Sorry, I should have been more clear: the resolution is equal to two 4k monitors glued together.

I wonder how it’s different from using playwright MCP? The prompts and screenshots, I guess?

“will transfirm you from being a consumer to a producer”

You mean, “will teach you to make REST calls instead of letting a script do it for you”.

We are all consumers. Unless, of course, you work at one of three companies.

I think that’s a decent approach, but doesn’t the performance of a Neovim terminal bother you? It simply does not feel as good as a native terminal pane. It’s not as bad as VSCode’s terminal pane, but it still leaves something to be desired.

I use Neovim + kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/) and the performance is phenomenal. Everything is instant. kitty also has a built-in robust layout system so I ended up ditching tmux entirely for it.

Just use tmux and split windows

I have never noticed any problem...

The main annoyance is dealing with newlines

I've noticed no problems, and I'm usually pretty controlling about performance- what am I missing?

It’s more common that they lead technological advancements in IDEs, not follow. Neovim in particular.

This is not a shared sentiment across the buy side. I’m guessing you work at a bank?