Oak: Git for Agents

12 points | by handfuloflight an hour ago

7 comments

  • varun_ch 7 minutes ago

    genuine question: is latency that big of a deal wrt tools for agents? I see this a lot with these AI-native tooling replacement projects, but surely the inference will be orders of magnitudes slower?

  • gb2d_hn 32 minutes ago

    I don't think we're going to convince anyone to replace git on speed alone. I don't spend that much time waiting for git operations, even on really big repositories.

      satvikpendem 19 minutes ago

      I don't know, I'm playing around with Jujutsu, Pijul, Sapling etc. They each have their pros and cons.

  • satvikpendem 19 minutes ago

    Cursor announced something similar, Origin [0], how does it compare.

    [0] https://cursor.com/origin

  • sroerick 31 minutes ago

    This looks like an interesting design, but I kind of just want to wait 3 years and see if some new VC system emerges victorious rather than try out all these new things

      varun_ch 3 minutes ago

      we’re on hacker news! this is the right place for the adventurous people to ‘try out all these new things’ so that the new stuff can emerge victorious :P

  • a3w 28 minutes ago

    QnA-section start with "Is Oak a git alternative for AI coding agents?" How is that a question left unanswered in the text before.

    Is this AI slop or a genuine project?