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knes··on A farewell to Arc browser
I've been on Helium for some time. it's great (for now)
knes··on Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B
Notion is next
knes··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
no one is mentioning DJI? they are also crushing go pro with DJI Osmo lineup, action or nano.
knes··on Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system
Agreed.this paper studied 33k+ agent-authored PRs on GitHub (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.15195)

#1 rejection reason: missing context. 80% needed human fixes. Agents can write code fine. They just don't know what "done" looks like in your codebase.

Count successful merges into repos with real history instead of LOC and the hard part is specification, not execution.

Wrote about this topic @ https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/the-end-of-linear-work

knes··on Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system
what if you move from reviewing the code to reviewing the spec?
knes··on Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
At Augment' we've been working on this. Multi agents orchestration, spec driven, different models for different tasks, etc.

https://www.augmentcode.com/product/intent

can use the code AUGGIE to skip the queue. Bring your own agent (powered by codex, CC, etc) coming to it next week.

knes··on There is an AI code review bubble
At augment code we specifically build our code review tool to find noise to signal ratio problem. In benchmark our comments are 2 to 3x more likely to get fixed compared to bugbot coderabbit etc

You should check it at Augmentcode.com

knes··on Graphite is joining Cursor
Blacksmith.sh acquisition in 3, 2, 1 ...

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

knes··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
is this a mishap/ leak? dont see the model yet
knes··on Claude Haiku 4.5
At augmentcode.com, we've been evaluating Haiku for some time, it's actually a very good model. We found out it's 90% as good as Sonnet and is ~34% faster than sonnet!

Where it doesn't shine much is on very large coding task. but it is a phenomenal model for small coding tasks and the speed improvement is much welcome

knes··on A16Z-backed data firms Fivetran, dbt Labs to merge in all-stock deal
Fivetran acquired Census (reverse-etl) & Tobiko (dbt alternative).

I wonder who's next to really consolidate their platform play and compete with the old legacy MDM provider like Informatica. Data Observability or Catalog like Monte Carlo and Atlan. The whole Modern Data Stack has either died, acquired or merged by now. Wonder what's missing for Fivetran to IPO too.

I also wonder what this merge means for Airbyte who raised 150m at 1.5b in 2023.

knes··on Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at
This is what we do at Augmentcode.com.

We started with building the best code retrieval and build an agent around it.

knes··on State of AI-assisted software development
the MTR study is a joke. it surveyed only 16 devs. in the era of Sonnet 3.5

Can we stop citing this study

I'm not saying the DORA study is more accurate, but at least it surveyed 5000 developers, globally and more recently (between June 13 and July 21, 2025) which means using the most recent SOTA models

knes··on Everything You Need to Know About Grok 4
Didn't the tldr of grok 4 was their over tuned for bencmhark results but in day to day tasks . It's actual not better than o3 / gpt5
knes··on Tracking Copilot vs. Codex vs. Cursor vs. Devin PR Performance
This is great work. Would love to see Augmentcode.com remote agent. If you are down OP, msg and I'll give you a free subscription to add to the test
knes··on Windsurf SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models
Check augmentcode.com
knes··on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
does that mean that Windsurf will only support OpenAI models going forward? I doubt OpenAI will pay to have users use Gemini/Claude? Especially as all of these Ai coding tools (Windsurf, Augment, Cursor) are heavily subsidizing the users.

I wonder what Anthropic makes of this. Windsurf was like a top 3 customers of them, might be a big revenue blow too?

knes··on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
Have you checked Augmentcode.com? On reddit/youtube people are praising it for how well it handle large codebase compared to Cursor and Windsurf
knes··on Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
This is great. Especially debugging frontend issue on localhost or staging.

Also works flawlessly with augment code.com too!

knes··on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
at Augment (https://augmentcode.com) we were one of the partner who tested 3.7 pre-launch. And it has been a pretty significant increase in quality and code understanding. Happy to answer some questions

FYI, We use Claude 3.7 has part of the new features we are shipping around Code Agent & more.

knes··on AI Code Assistant and Chat for Vim
Hey HN,

Here at Augment, we've worked with a lot of devs who are using Vim, who were consistently unhappy with the state of AI extensions in Vim.

So we decided to build a first-class experience in Vim, with completion and AI chat. It was so fun, we built a special mini-site for it too.

BTW, it's free to try. Would love your thoughts!

https://hjkl.ai/

knes··on Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
IMHO, I would agree with you.

I think chat is a nice intermediary evolution between the CLI (that we use every day) and whatever comes next.

I work at Augment (https://augmentcode.com), which, surprise surprise, is an AI coding assistant. We think about the new modality required to interact with code and AI on a daily basis.

Beside increase productivity (and happiness, as you don't have to do mundane tasks like tests, documentations, etc), I personally believe that what AI can open up is actually more of a way for non-coders (think PMs) to interact with a codebase. AI is really good at converting specs, user stories, and so on into tasks—which today still need to be implemented by software engineers (with the help of AI for the more tedious work). Think of what Figma did between designers and developers, but applied to coding.

What’s the actual "new UI/UX paradigm"? I don’t know yet. But like with Figma, I believe there’s a happy ending waiting for everyone.

knes··on Offline-First Database Comparison
Did you look into https://ditto.live/? Its and off-line first db too. I never used it but looks very interesting and would be interested how it compare to the technologies you picked
knes··on Launch HN: June (YC W21) – Two-click analytics reports on top of Segment data
Do you store the data you received from Segment. If so, how ? and how it is "secured"?
knes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
Census | Remote for now, eventually San Francisco | Full Time | https://www.getcensus.com/

Census is a platform for syncing your data warehouse with apps your team uses - Salesforce, Zendesk, Marketo, etc. We're used and loved by data engineers and ops folks at many of your favorite companies.

We're backed by some great investors and are a high-performing small team. Our stack is Rails, Typescript, and Vue, but we are happy to talk with engineers with other expertise.

Open roles include:

- Full stack software engineering

- Customer Data Architect

- Product Designer

- Technical Content Writer

- Growth Marketing Manager

See more at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Census or shoot me an email: sylvain@getcensus.com

knes··on Launch HN: Airbyte (YC W20) – Open-Source ELT (Fivetran/Stitch Alternative)
Couldn't agree more.

for me, work like ELT( https://fivetran.com or https://getcensus.com) are the type of work that no engineer in the world will get a promotion from.

data|software|back|platform|etc Engineer's time is better spend on something else than that.

knes··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)
Census | Full Stack Engineer, Technical Customer Success | San Francisco (SF), California | https://getcensus.com

* Full Stack Engineer - https://angel.co/company/getcensus/jobs/528885-full-stack-en... * Technical Customer Success - https://angel.co/company/getcensus/jobs/976285-technical-cus...

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Census what?

Our goal with Census (https://getcensus.com) has always been to help companies unify their disparate internal sources of data about users & organizations and put the information at the commercial team’s fingertips. We build a product that runs on top of Cloud Warehouse and helps teams sync customer & product data to the business tools like Marketo, Salesforce, Intercom, etc.

We already have amazing customers like Figma, Notion, Clearbit, LogDNA, Mode Analytics, Terminus, Rippling, etc. We are looking to expand our small team (7 so far) to continue iterating our product and grow our customer base!

We are a bunch of 2nd-time founders, and a16z backs us with a seed of $4.3m.

You can read more about us on https://blog.getcensus.com/meet-census/

knes··on Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams
Opening up the console, it looks like they are using pusher.com
knes··on Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B
Yes you are correct that he probably played a big part in all of this.
knes··on Twilio set to acquire Segment for $3.2B
That sounds like a sweet deal, especially as Twilio stock is current "overvalued" (like most tech stocks right now).

Jeff Lawson continues to follow the SFDC playbook of buying companies (and existing revenue growth) with stocks everytime their stock pops ;)

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