The landing page looks lovely, but the examples shown have no foundation in my head for what they're doing / showing / helping with.
It's confusing enough that I don't know if this is just way above my knowledge level or whether I just don't understand what it even is.
It feels like you've developed something really useful but it's so internally obvious in your own head that it's missing some steps in the explanation for everyone else on how to come along with you and see the power of it.
I'm actually using Radix right now to brainstorm and update the example on the landing page to be more descriptive.
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've built, a way of commenting on the pages it generates).
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]).
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.
(It's not part of the free version since that works with your existing agent and you interact with it however you normally would).
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's actually helpful is an open question but it's certainly how I prefer to work now that I've been building with it.
The fact that Stripe are touting a production product that (at face value) benefits their business seems to suggest that maybe crap is subjective and as ever, being overly opinionated in an emerging space might actually be a blocking mindset rather than a positive one.
You are right and make an important insight. While well meaning and amusing, it did not reflect the entire spectrum of outcomes that could arise from the worktree.
Navigating the landscape of agentic levers certainly requires a more detailed approach than this and you were certainly correct to push back.
My companies current national marketing campaign strategy, structure and creative work has been created by an MBA from outside our industry who did a "deep dive" using AI. The project manager they brought in to run the tickets is also adding AI made decisions on brand and ad copy.
The short version of the result is that we're completely copying the leaders in our market that have 100x our marketing budget because they're the only ones with documented strategies for AI to cheatsheet from, with no sense or irony or concern that perhaps their scale is a core part of their strategy.
It's not just institutional knowledge. We're suffering the death of the specialist. Now every generalist is pulling triggers with no sense of limitations.
It's sad - I spent a good 12 years writing Scala every day and it was the ideal language for my brain. Until it wasn't - sbt got too complex for it's own good, everything became "very smart" developers over-using implicit conversions, you couldn't find a project that wasn't an opinion war on cats vs whatever. It collapsed on the weight of it's own smugness.
go and kotlin aren't it, gleam scratches the itch but I can't justify writing code that would impossible to hire for.
It's confusing enough that I don't know if this is just way above my knowledge level or whether I just don't understand what it even is.
It feels like you've developed something really useful but it's so internally obvious in your own head that it's missing some steps in the explanation for everyone else on how to come along with you and see the power of it.
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