building @amikadev - infra for your software factory | YC S22 F25, CMU CS LTI

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Software production is industrializing. Build your software factory. Use any code agent you want. We're making infra to help you agentify your software development lifecycle
Your entire SDLC should be automatable with AI agents. But just like there's no one-stop dev workflow, there's no one-stop agent. That's why we're building amika.dev: infra for every company to build their own software factory, customized to them.
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My bet is git (or some future VCS) underpins all agent work, not just coding Git lets agent attach its reasoning, can version and roll back mistakes Review process and CI lets humans approve the agent's work
Jun 12
## The Future Codebase After the PR dies, after the Code Review dies, i am seriously wondering if Git needs to die next. roughly 20-40% of code spend is just managing and updating merge conflicts. necessary evil? or legacy "horseless carriage"? cargo culting the past? we don't do line by line merge conflicts when we collaborate with human colleagues - instead we chat, suggest edits, do side comments, and an owner ships it. btw we also don't do CI/CD even collaborating on documents with serious legal/financial implications. maybe the future codebase looks more like a Notion or Linear database than .git objects. It will be less efficient, but more scalable. exactly the Salty Lesson.
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Most AI reasoning and workflows can be simmered down into 1. Coding 2. Finance 3. Marketing Code is the way of manipulating information. Finance is the way of predicting the future. Marketing figures out how to engage human emotions.
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Talking about AI coding agents feels like talking about astrology
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We built a tool that captures past coding agent sessions and turns them into a filesystem for your future agents and other tools Sessions are linked to the git commits they worked on Turn past sessions into memory files, mine them for agent guardrails, etc. core is OSS
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I'm gonna teach my agent to think in loops by forcing it to play Factorio all weekend
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everything is event logs
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If you're setting up internal agents to watch your repo and auto-fix or implement stuff, give @amikdev a try We let users spin up computer environments for coding agents and then run human-in-the-loop or fully automated workflows for coding ie auto-build user feature requests in Slack, watch production and auto-fix bugs, etc
We've always told startups to launch early, but I realized there's a powerful new reason to. Before you launch, the speed you can build is now mainly limited by your imagination in what you tell AI. After you launch, the AI can watch your users and make improvements on its own.
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I run my GTM with markdown files and claude/codex, but I missed some of the structure you get from using a SQL database So I made a open source CLI tool called "akfs" to work with the YAML frontmatter in markdown files In UNIX tradition, it's composable
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Part of our OSS amika repo: github.com/gofixpoint/amika/… Give it a list of files and it pulls the frontmatter out from each and turns it into JSON. You can use it to sync frontmatter to/from a DB, or in your githooks to make sure the frontmatter is correct, etc.
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Super cool Let the whole team vibe code together on shared VMs
Everyone's talking about AI-generated HTML. But have you tried giving your sites a zero-config API for saving data, file storage, AI, websockets, etc? We did this at Shopify. Runs on a single VM that costs $200/month, and it's changed the way we work. We call it Quick 👇🧵
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If you are not doing my ${VAGUE_POST} prompt looping on Fable, you are ngmi Enjoy the permanent underclass
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Cloud agents and their cloud VMs should be model/harness agnostic Every month, Codex and Claude swap leaderboards, and new OSS coding models keep coming out I don't want to be bound to one intelligence provider for my cloud agents This is why we're building @amikadev
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Good stuff. Need more OSS coding models No gatekeeping!
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Introducing Cohere's first open-source coding model: North Mini Code Small & efficient, designed for agentic performance and built for community input.
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Why do people design sites with scrolljacking? Is there a single example out there where people prefer a scrolljacked experience over OS-native scrolling?
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We'll live in a world of many distilled and specialized models, because you can always specialize models to improve on one of: 1. quality 2. cost 3. speed
Good take My guess is - demand for intelligence is near infinite - but 80% of workloads will be running on 99% cheaper models within 12-18 months - 20% of workloads will still run on latest gen models where IQ maxing is important (scientific breakthroughs, higher level ochestrator agents?) - rough analogy might be what % of macbooks or gaming PCs sold have the maxed out specs for CPU/GPU, prices are falling much faster than Moore's law here though - this leads me to think the limiting factor will be energy and compute, not better models At Coinbase we're working hard on routing prompts to cheaper models where appropriate, and in some cases have been able to keep costs roughly flat, while token usage continues to grow exponentially.
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I'm loopin here!
Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.
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Figuring this out at @amikadev The new "app" is a VM agent your context and files. Agents get context in, and output new context, which you can review (just like how you manage code changes in git!) Big question: what would UNIX look like if it was redesigned after LLM agents launched?
I want some kind of LLM workflow tool. • Ability to manage a set of input files (Markdown or similar), plus other general-purpose context. • With real-time collaboration. (And maybe some concept of snapshots or VCS integration.) • And the ability to create/manage a inference workflows and a stored set of prompts. • Access to general-purpose coding agents (and not just chat models). • Some concept of compiled outputs/inference results (which ideally can be shared externally). Many projects have this feeling: "there is all this stuff, which I want to process/compute over in this iterated way, with some build artifacts being important/worth saving." GNU Autotools x Notion or something. Is anyone building this?
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The new computer program is a package of: 1. virtual machine 2. agent controlling the computer 3. source code and software the agent can run and modify
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You package all this up into one "app" Then it can run and modify itself
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