Someone shared a fascinating visual of an AI agent moving through a real codebase - reviewing structures, making decisions, and committing changes. It’s a reminder that software development is quietly entering a new phase. Not automation in the traditional sense, but systems that can understand context, navigate complexity, and... contribute meaningfully. We’re still early, but the trajectory is unmistakable: coding is becoming more collaborative between humans and intelligent agents than ever before.show more

This is NOT an "AI agent" at all. The dead giveaway was seeing the dates on the top, and the usernames. I remember seeing this ages ago. It's viz of humans making changes over several months. It's using this tool:

This is how those animations look with real people committing changes, nothing AI-specific here especially over 4 months

I am currently making my own version of this in three.js. Much fun. The original software is

"Intelligent" and "understand" words doing a lot of lift here

Where's the button that says: 'this guy is fundamentally misunderstanding everything'... It's literally the humans committing changes as per the usernames, it is their direction and usage that makes this graph grow. The AI is making code, but you don't blindly let it enter.

who is "someone"?

Anyone who's used it knows this is Gource instantaneously and without hesitation. Why would this fool lie about that. It's just so stupid and low IQ.

Here’s a video of actual neurons firing and forming new connections in the brain. The similarity is unreal.

Reminds me of how the Forerunner "ruins" are portrayed in the Halo franchise. Naur's "living program" takes on a new meaning (he meant an actively-maintained app): Still means that; but gains another level of self-sustaining ability.

Also very similar to how Hades is portrayed "multiplying" in Zero Dawn

XD, this is not AI, this tool is much older than AI, is visualize of the history of a git repository, is not an AI agent exploring a codebase.

dude isnt that gource lmao

you would get the exact same animation if you ran a crawler

fake, it's not how "ai" works

Great post

Anyone else think this looks similar to a brain? Pretty cool stuff

I want to see this in real time with watches on file reads and edits.

History of git repository?

This is a famous git visualizer and doesn't have anything to do with AI. I first used this tool more than a decade ago.

The trajectory is unmistakable: *immediately mistakes the trajectory*

@InfraNodus

check @rovela_ai . we're building the future of e-commerce and our agents are doing a great job like the ones here! very impressive to see how a well orchestrated AI can perform.

Exciting vision. The challenge will be when these AI agents encounter edge cases they weren't trained for. How are you thinking about the human feedback loop to continuously improve agent performance in production?

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Epic

This is a visualization of the history of a git repository not an AI agent exploring a codebase.

Exactly 👏 Human + agent workflows are becoming the new normal.

Wow, this really gives us a chance to see from another perspective

Big Boom Theory in AI. So cool!

Exciting times ahead for software development! Collaboration between humans and intelligent agents is the future.

Post and community notes just prove again how ignorant AI moonboys are. Again

You say "quietly", but I hear it screaming that it's entering a new phase.

AI is no longer just fetching coffee for coders; it’s editing the entire script. Picture a digital intern that never sleeps, reviews your pull requests, and probably judges your variable names. The future dev team might include one human and one very opinionated algorithm.

I think we're still far from agents understanding business context and tradeoffs. They can navigate syntax and patterns, but making decisions about what to build and why is still very human.

Interesting concept, but real-world codebases are complex.