We noticed a lot of people, including us, are AI coding 10x+ faster, but then either ship unreliable slop or get stuck in human code review, which is now a bigger (and more annoying) bottleneck than it was pre-AI.
So we tried eliminating human code review by default with a new spec-test based process that has one critical rule: if code passes the tests, it ships.
Yes reliability is only as good as the specs, so that's where the human expertise is now: writing specs and overseeing the agent instead of typing code.
We developed a couple new open source tools Hot Sheet¹ (new IDE - agent command center + harness) and Glassbox² (agent feedback focused code review UX) to help with this.
Honestly, writing specs well for complicated things takes about as long as writing code. You still have to cover the edge cases, now in English instead of code. And it might even be more error-prone, since English is more ambiguous than code.
I'm curious if anyone else has tried this and found it doesn't save time. My bet is human review won't be a gate forever but human eng time shifts from code writing, to spec writing, and ultimately allows for faster development. And the AI will be better at finding bugs to prevent that eg Mythos.
Twilio's Authy shut down their desktop app, forcing millions of users to rely solely on their mobile app for two-factor authentication (2FA). This sudden change impacts everyone who chose Authy specifically for its desktop support - including developers, office workers, and anyone who needs quick access to 2FA codes while working on their computer. Now we're all forced to constantly reach for our phones, disrupting our workflow and productivity.
This sudden desktop shutdown proves Authy can and will remove features without warning. Yet they still refuse to provide any way to export our 2FA data. This means we're trapped - we can't switch to a different authenticator app that does offer desktop support without manually resetting 2FA on every single account we own. For many of us, that means hundreds of accounts. The situation is especially critical for teams and businesses who deployed Authy across their organization specifically for its desktop capability.
The desktop shutdown has to be our wake-up call. If Authy can remove critical features overnight, what else might they change? Without an export function, we have no backup plan and no way out. Every day we wait puts us at more risk.
Sign this petition to demand Authy add a basic export function so we can take control of our own security data.
You think there should be negative consequences to the founders for expertly managing the business...?
To many it looked like covid, wfh, etc resulted in a new world with a permanent step level increase in the internet economy that caused Stripe's business to dramatically increase and thus the founders grew the company to support the activity and continue being the best and most innovative internet payment service.
It turns out unfortunately the growth was temporary, inflation skyrocketed, and the world is probably heading into a recession that will further decrease or slow the growth of the internet economy and thus Stripe's business, so the founders are acting quickly and responsibly to cut costs in order to maintain a position of financial strength and continue growing the business and being the best and most innovative internet payment service.
In time, if Stripe continues to succeed and have exceptional business performance, the consequences to the founders should be financial reward for taking quick and effective beneficial action that grew the business.
You will be our first engineering hire and have significant responsibility and ability to shape our product. You will be doing key engineering work that moves the business and blockchain world forward by leading development of the Mobius "Stripe for Blockchain" API https://mobius.network/docs and DApp Store https://mobius.network/store. You will very closely with the co-founders in defining the development roadmap and making it a reality.
We are looking for an amazing full-stack engineer ideally with significant Ruby on Rails experience. Added plus is blockchain development experience - ideally low-level Bitcoin/Ethereum core type work but also Solidity knowledge and/or low-level understanding of Ethereum (or other blockchains) transactions and how to build them and send them to the network.
Hi I'm one of the founders. Many people think this upon hearing about the service but the logic is flawed because:
A) It does not consider that we are building more cost effective alternative fuel delivery infrastructure that can help accelerate the adoption of alternative fuel vehicles other than electric such as the Toyota Mirai and Honda FCX Clarity.
B) Does not consider that efficient gasoline delivery can reduce carbon emissions and the number of polluting underground gas station tanks.
1. Most email open tracking services do not alert the recipient (or require opt-in). Tracking email opens is basically standard practice these days. We don’t have numbers but I bet the majority of marketing emails track opens. Also, many new services such as Streak, Yesware, and ToutApp track opens without opt-out ability or downloads. The only similar service that we know of that has a time-limited opt-out option is Boomerang.
2/3. Pluto’s goal is to change the way people think about email. If an email is going to expire in a few minutes/hours does search matter? Pluto may not make sense for your business emails and that is ok. We are providing an option for people to use for emails that they don’t want to follow them for the rest of their life.
4. It is a big task and we’re working on ways to make Pluto as accessible and easy to use as possible.
Pluto allows you to select, copy, and paste from the text version accessible via the link, though it does have search limitations. For our active users, the inconvenience is an acceptable tradeoff for being able to limit their email footprint. Search is also much less important if the email will soon be expired.
However, we are working on email client plugins that will enable inline reply/copy/paste and search to improve the Pluto experience.
Indeed there is no free lunch and until email end-to-end encryption is widely supported, the unencrypted content is going to be stored somewhere. Pluto has an easily accessible eliminate option that deletes all copies of the email from our servers (and given the way Pluto works, also the recipient's access to the content). You can click “Eliminate all emails” on the top right signed-in home page to eliminate all emails or you can do it on a per-email basis by clicking “Eliminate Completely” in the top left of an email details page. We also support an auto-eliminate setting that eliminates an email from our servers upon unsend or auto-expire.
Thanks for the comment. We actually do support forwarding. If an email is forwarded it will still expire/unsend as expected. You can forward a Pluto email to any email address. Please try it and send us any feedback you have.
So we tried eliminating human code review by default with a new spec-test based process that has one critical rule: if code passes the tests, it ships.
Yes reliability is only as good as the specs, so that's where the human expertise is now: writing specs and overseeing the agent instead of typing code.
We developed a couple new open source tools Hot Sheet¹ (new IDE - agent command center + harness) and Glassbox² (agent feedback focused code review UX) to help with this.
Honestly, writing specs well for complicated things takes about as long as writing code. You still have to cover the edge cases, now in English instead of code. And it might even be more error-prone, since English is more ambiguous than code.
I'm curious if anyone else has tried this and found it doesn't save time. My bet is human review won't be a gate forever but human eng time shifts from code writing, to spec writing, and ultimately allows for faster development. And the AI will be better at finding bugs to prevent that eg Mythos.
[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/hotsheet [2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/glassbox