Oh god I bought one of these. It was so terrible. Valve is definitely the right company (private) to pull this off. Gabe just needs to own a foundry and they’ll be set.
Why do you need to lock anything? To prevent someone else from working on it? To prevent duplicative work? That sounds like a management/coordination issue. Not a VCS issue. So you have version A and version B. Why are 2 artists working on the same asset without coordination? Do they not use task tracking or project management? Even if that’s ignored, then one person’s work gets wasted. That happens all the time in text based dev too if it’s lacking coordination.
Should coordination live in the VCS layer? That sounds like it creates more issues than prevents.
I really want this with RFID tags so the kids aren’t overloaded by streaming. Same for music. We’re missing out with anything on demand at any time that the value of collecting and favorites has diminished.
I’ve found that it’s a lot like discovering a feature instead of designing it all up front. Like chiseling marble.
I’ve found it useful to write out a list of feedback / issues and have a bunch of sub agents work on them in worktrees with a loop bringing them all back together. That way it can work for a few hours while I just can review a bulk at a time.
1. There’s nothing human about hacker news. Since the telegraph, we lost human to human communication.
We’ve gained a lot. But it’s naive to claim that HN is any semblance of human-to-human communication.
2. YC helped unleash the war that you’re now losing. This pleading screams too little too late.
3. Just because something “should” happen doesn’t mean it will. HMW Go build that future. HMW Replace HN with human verification and trust signals over AI slop algorithms that AI can’t produce. Pleading for change about it is not building. It’s the lawyers defense, not the engineers.
I have only the utmost respect in YC and HN—but have heard this same argument for LI or any social media change. The networks’ defenses are crumbling and AI accelerated it.
Might be time to increase the value of trust signals over content.