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AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

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  1. alembic_fumes · · focus · HN ↗
    So on one hand the page says

    > We want to make dealing with agentic infrastructure easier so you can focus on your work. AX is designed with an uncompromising focus on ergonomics, rapid iteration, and joyful workflows for both application developers and AI researchers.

    On the the other hand, the readme quickstart section says

    > You need a Kubernetes cluster, ko (brew install ko), a container registry your cluster can pull from, and a reachable Agent Substrate Control API (in-cluster default: api.ate-system.svc.cluster.local:443).

    Call me old-fashioned but I don't find this "easier". Maybe it's easier in the same way that Kubernetes itself is easier than managing VMs and container deployments at massive scale without such a tool. But there's a vast chasm between what this tool is being sold as and what it actually is.

    1. carlm42 · · focus · HN ↗
      It is easier in that if you have infrastructure already, it's trivial to add this on top. The primitives look also very familiar.
      1. WestCoader · · focus · HN ↗
        >It's easy, just add this thing.

        lmao found the dev who's only ever worked on the dev side of things.

        1. carlm42 · · focus · HN ↗
          I started as a sysadmin dealing with a Puppet 3 to 5 migration but thanks for assuming and being insulting.
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