gait Launches: The Open-Source Collaboration Layer for AI Coding Assistants

gait recently launched!

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<sup>"Code Faster with AI, Without All the Guesswork"

TL;DR - Gait is the open-source collaboration layer for AI codegen. With gait, developers can view the prompts that generated a piece of code, continue off of coworker's conversations, and view analytics on AI codegen use. Watch our demo here (1:35)</sup>

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Founded by Kyle Li & Alex Hsia

They are CMU and Columbia dropouts who met this summer while working at Jane Street. They have also worked at Stripe (Kyle) and Mercury (Alex).

Kyle’s looking for a squash partner, and you can find Alex at the 3rd Street Boxing Gym.

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The Problems

AI codegen tools are built for individuals, not teams, and code is read more than it is written. Increasingly, understanding and editing become the limiting factors in a team’s velocity, not generation.

🧐 AI-generated code is hard to understand

• They use Cursor to ship quickly, but AI diffs are often destructive, large, and opaque. Prompts serve as automatic documentation.

📈 It’s hard to understand AI’s impact on your codebase

• gait is the first layer of observability, giving oversight into your and your team’s use of AI and its impact on productivity.

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The Solution

Code annotations - Have you ever been confused by a block of AI-generated code? Hover over any piece of AI-generated code to see the prompts that created it. It’s like a better git blame. Coming soon: Github integration.

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Analytics on your AI Codegen - Use gait to analyse and understand your AI codegen usage. Find out your stats here: https://getgait.com/getting-started

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Manage chats like diffs - choose which chats you’d like to include with git-like semantics. Stage and unstage chats, and view the chats associated with a commit or a PR.

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The vision

AI coding assistants are single-player right now and focus only on generating new code. AI coding tools produce flashy demos and v0s but are not as helpful for coding in production. They want to improve collaboration and the entire software lifecycle: not just generating code but also reviewing and editing it.

They also want to redefine the code repository - what would your repo look like if it were designed for AI? They think this means incorporating all the context AI needs to make edits. This includes your prompts right now, but imagine your SWE agent making edits with automatic access to design docs, Jira tickets, and API specs.

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The ask

Try gait out!

Search “gait” in the extension marketplace. Click install.

Start coding, and gait will capture your chats automatically!

Keep in touch!

If you’re building a coding assistant or AI agent, they’d love to integrate with you. Reach out here!

If you manage a team of engineers and think this could be helpful or if you have any questions or feedback or want to just talk shop, they’d love to hear from you, email the founders here.

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Learn More

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^{‍🌐 Visit getgait.com to learn more.}

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^{🤝 Interested in using gait? Get started here.}

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^{💡 Contribute to gait: https://github.com/gait-ai/gait}

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