alt Hacker NewsHow is this already #1 on the front page with 12 upvotes and 9 comments…
The article doesn’t reveal much. It feels like a fluff piece, and I can’t comprehend what the goal of sharing “we use AI agents” means for the dev community, with little to no examples to share. For a “dev” micro blog, this feels very lackluster. Maybe the Minion could have helped with the technical docs?
EDIT: slightly adjusts tinfoil hat minutes later it’s at #6
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well, it's very important, now you know the financial code is handled by a bunch of barely supervised AI tools and can make decisions on whether to use product or not based on that
Stripe was launched through Y Combinator. It makes sense for their stuff to quickly bubble to the top of their news aggregator.
Likely they have whitelisted domaine names that go straight to the home page. Would make sense to put all Y combinator ex and new startup sites.
Marketting is a major goal of HN after all.
It has all the trappings of NIH syndrome.
Reinventing the wheel without explaining why existing tools didn't work
Creating buzzwords ("blueprints" "devboxes") for concepts that are not novel and already have common terms
Yet they embrace MCP of all things as a transport layer- the one part of the common "agentic" stack that genuinely sucks and needs to be reinvented