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Fair warning I'm on the team building this, but Sourcebot was made to solve this problem. It's basically multi-repo code search for agents, which we've seen many teams get a lot of value from in large multi-repo environments.

The agents are typically smart enough to invoke the Sourcebot MCP themselves, but some teams also write custom skills to guide their agents to do so in specific scenarios too (migrations, using internal libraries, etc)

> Several times a day I'll prompt regular Claude chat to "Clone x/y from GitHub and tell me how Z works"

We built a free tool to help with this workflow! Just prepend "ask" to any public github repo and get a chat box to ask questions on it :)

For example: https://askgithub.com/openai/codex

interestingly they support multiple graphics APIs (Dx11, Dx12, and Metal) through an abstraction layer: https://app.sourcebot.dev/chat/cmrcbnd6u00cvwa5bup88jf0j

there's no rats but there has been an uptick in voles and other rodents

also Alberta, Canada mentioned

We have a lot of folks using Sourcebot in their home lab as a nice free code search across their projects. Hope it could be helpful!

https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot

> MCP is dead

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> So is MCP really dead? Not entirely

sigh...

As one of the cofounders of an open source tool (Sourcebot) we have seen the "AI slop PR" issue explained here first hand. The amount of of PRs we get now from people who clearly have never even deployed or used our tool is staggering. We're working on a solution for this that leverages our tool, and plan to make it available for free for OSS projects. If you have any ideas, please reach out to me: michael at sourcebot(dot)dev

Built a tool to ask questions on the Claude Code source code: https://askgithub.com/alex000kim/claude-code

I think most people would be okay with an exit tax if it's reasonable. Requiring the owner of a business generating €20k in profit to then pay €70k in taxes is not reasonable.

Canada also has an unreasonable exit tax. Canadian founders are taxed on 50% of the FMV of their shares on departure. So if you own half of a company that is worth $50m, your taxable income for the year of departure is increased by $12.5m.

> When you write code, how much of your time do you truly spend pushing buttons on the keyboard? It's probably less than you think. Much of your prime coding time is actually reading and thinking

Totally agree, IMO there's a lot of potential for these tools to help with code understanding and not just generation. Shameless plug for a code understanding tool we've been working on that helps with this: https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot

This looks awesome. I've used GPT to do something similar but having a platform like this would be very powerful. Congrats on the launch! Very excited to try it out soon

I've never lived in NYC - are median studio apts in West Village really $6k? Website looks awesome but I'm hoping that the data isn't true

hey I'm Michael (the other cofounder). If the products are purely internal[1] then you're able to use, modify, and distribute the code as you please (even if you're a commercial org). If you have any additional questions about the license feel free to reach out at license@sourcebot.dev

The Fair Source website is a great resource to learn more: https://fair.io/

[1] The only restriction on the code is that it cannot be used for a commercial product that substitutes for our software. We have a few teams that have connected Sourcebot into internal dev dashboards! This is 100% allowed by the license

I once set the "dont sleep on disable mode" and totally forgot about it. Took me a month to realize after my laptop would be drained over night. That tool definitely would've been helpful in this case!

Shameless plug of our MCP server that does the same thing and is free and self-hosted https://docs.sourcebot.dev/docs/features/mcp-server

One interesting side effect of this for instagram is that the website is much worse than the app, which makes it much harder to doom scroll. I have the app deleted on my phone and occasionally visit the website to check for messages and updates from friends

Great point. At the end of the day if these tools were truly that harmful then it would cause the user to never use them again

Facebook is a great example of doing this and it succeeding very well. Zuck recognized that Facebook was going to zero and bought WhatsApp, Instagram, and Oculus. My guess is that sama sees the writing on the wall and knows that he must expand OpenAI in a similar way.

What happens to OpenAI competitors that can't make similar moves is another question.

We've been using zod for our open source tool and are loving it! Will definitely try to migrate over to v4 soon, thanks for the project!

The only time I've actually stood up during a standup was when I interned at Ubisoft. We would have ~25 people in a room all standing on the perimeter and we'd say what we were working on one by one. As an intern I really liked it because I got to hear what problems everyone was working on.

The Apple store chapter was my favorite part of Isaacson's book. It really solidified the "control the whole stack" approach that Steve Jobs had. That being said, I'm glad to see app developers getting their fair share back from the app store.