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jacobegold commented on There is an AI code review bubble   greptile.com/blog/ai-code... · Posted by u/dakshgupta
cmrdporcupine · 17 days ago
You just completely contradicted yourself then.
jacobegold · 17 days ago
Not sure how? Meant this:

> The agentic coding tools and review tools I want my team (and myself) to have access to are ones that ones that force an explicit knowledge interview & acquisition process during authoring and involve the engineer more intricately in the whole flow.

jacobegold commented on There is an AI code review bubble   greptile.com/blog/ai-code... · Posted by u/dakshgupta
cmrdporcupine · 17 days ago
"While some other products have built out great UIs for humans to review code in an AI-assisted paradigm, we have chosen to build for what we consider to be an inevitable future - one where code validation requires vanishingly little human participation."

Ok good, now I know not to bother reading through any of their marketing literature, because while the product at first interested me, now I know it's exactly not what I want for my team.

The actual "bubble" we have right now is a situation where people can produce and publish code they don't understand, and where engineers working on a system no longer are forced to reckon with and learn the intricacies of their system, and even senior engineers don't gain literacy into the very thing they're working on, and so are somewhat powerless to assess quality and deal with crisis when it hits.

The agentic coding tools and review tools I want my team (and myself) to have access to are ones that ones that force an explicit knowledge interview & acquisition process during authoring and involve the engineer more intricately in the whole flow.

What we got instead with claude code & friends is a thing way too eager to take over the whole thing. And while it can produce some good results it doesn't produce understandable systems.

To be clear, it's been a long time since writing code has been the hard part of the job? in many many domains. The hard part is systems & architecture and while these tools can help with that, there's nothing more potentially terrifying pthan a team full of people who have agentically produced a codebase that they cannot holistically understand the nuances of.

So, yeah, I want review tools for that scenario. Since these people have marketed themselves off the table... what is out there?

jacobegold · 17 days ago
Yep. We see this future and are working on exactly what you're talking about (Graphite)
jacobegold commented on Graphite is joining Cursor   cursor.com/blog/graphite... · Posted by u/fosterfriends
knes · 2 months ago
Blacksmith.sh acquisition in 3, 2, 1 ...

Then Cursor takes on GitHub for the control of the repo.

jacobegold · 2 months ago
As a Graphite employee, would love this tbh - we love Blacksmith!
jacobegold commented on Graphite is joining Cursor   cursor.com/blog/graphite... · Posted by u/fosterfriends
bostonvaulter2 · 2 months ago
As someone who loves all the non-AI portions of Graphite (the CLI and the reviewer UI) should I be worried about this acquisition? Or will the CLI and Reviewer Ui continue to be be maintained and improved?
jacobegold · 2 months ago
Maintained, improved, and integrated.

With more resources than ever. We're building whole platform. That's a lot more than just AI.

jacobegold commented on Graphite is joining Cursor   cursor.com/blog/graphite... · Posted by u/fosterfriends
aabhay · 2 months ago
jj is actually perfectly fit for this and many other problems. In fact, this is actually the default behavior for jj -- if you squash a bunch of jj commits, the bookmarks on top automatically point to the updated rev tree. Then when syncing the dependent branches to git they all rebase automatically.

The problem however lies in who or what does this rebasing in a multi-tenant environment. You sort of need a system that can do it automatically, or one that gives you control over the process. For example, jj can often get tripped up with branch rules in git since you might accidentally move a bookmark that isn't yours to move, so to speak.

jacobegold · 2 months ago
Correct (Graphite eng here for context) - we've thought about extending our CLI to allow it to sync jj with GH pull requests to do exactly this. Essentially - similar workflow but use `jj` as the frontend instead of `gt`
jacobegold commented on Graphite is joining Cursor   cursor.com/blog/graphite... · Posted by u/fosterfriends
firloop · 2 months ago
Supermaven said the same thing when they were acquired by Cursor and then EOLed a year later. Honestly, it makes sense to me that Cursor would shut down products it acquires - I just dislike pretending that something else is happening.
jacobegold · 2 months ago
we are a 70 person team, bringing in significant revenue through our product, have widespread usage at massive companies like shopify robinhood etc, this is a MUCH MUCH MUCH different story than supermaven (which I used myself and was sad to see go) which was a tiny team with a super-early product when they got acquired.

everyone is staying on to keep making the graphite product great. we're all excited to have these resources behind us!

jacobegold commented on Graphite is joining Cursor   cursor.com/blog/graphite... · Posted by u/fosterfriends
mcintyre1994 · 2 months ago
This is annoying, Graphite's core feature of stacked PRs is really good despite all the AI things they've added around their review UI. I doubt we'll want to keep relying on that for very long now.
jacobegold · 2 months ago
stacked prs will only get better from here :) we have an incredible amount of resources to keep improving that part of our product.
jacobegold commented on Code review can be better   tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/sealeck
ndr · 6 months ago
Is there something that does this?

I've played with git town which is great for what it is.

But at $DAYJOB we are now all on graphite and that stacking is super neat. The web part is frustratingly slow, but they got stacking working really well.

jacobegold · 6 months ago
we have a big effort in the works to improve web perf! where specifically are you seeing slowness in the app — what flows, what pages, etc?
jacobegold commented on Jujutsu and Radicle   radicle.xyz/2025/08/14/ju... · Posted by u/vinnyhaps
koreth1 · 6 months ago
As a satisfied customer of yours, the prospect of having to give up Graphite is the main thing keeping me from giving jj a try at my day job.

Ironic, since if there are a bunch of people in my boat, the lack of us in jj's user base will make it that much harder for jj to cross the "popular enough to be worth supporting" threshold.

jacobegold · 6 months ago
My ideal is really just a version of `gt sync` and `gt submit` that handle updating the Graphite + Github server-side of things let you use `jj` for everything else, I think it could feel super nice. Probably not as simple as my dreams, but hopefully something we can get to with enough interest!
jacobegold commented on Code review can be better   tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025... · Posted by u/sealeck
jacobegold · 6 months ago
It's so cool that Git is considering first class change IDs!! That's huge! This sounds similar to what we had at Facebook to track revisions in Phabricator diffs. Curious if anyone knows the best place to read about this?

u/jacobegold

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