cto.new is the world's first completely free AI code agent. Use the latest frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI and more. No credit card or API keys required.
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Joined May 2023
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great article by @sudbalaji on managing long contexts
having worked on background coding agents at @ctodotnew since before Claude Code was GA, it feels like I've tried out all the major strategies and techniques to manage long contexts
I'm still pleasantly surprised to find new ones appearing, like in Kimi's CLI tool, which lets the agent send a message "back in time"
my medium-spicy take is that background agents are better than interactive coding agents for a large class of coding tasks - one small but important reason is that they let you think about long context management as a system design problem rather than a strictly algorithmic one
we've been using @northflank microVMs to scale our secure production sandboxes to great effect during an incredibly busy launch period with overwhelming usage.
@NorthflankWill wrote a fantastic piece on how, and it'll be linked in reply, but tl;dr check out Northflank if you have similar needs and don't want to sacrifice speed or deal with spiky costs.
believe it or not cto . new has a human CTO named Paul Groves, and he just wrote a short piece about why it's free, where we're heading and some of the challenges that make it feel like juggling knives
article linked in reply 👇
using @linear as their main interface for cto . new is a best practice Wequity shares in our latest user case study
full article in reply 👇
added glm 4.6 in beta to help ramp capacity
how are you liking it?
invites going out fast as possible for those still waiting 🫡
Grateful to @KindredVentures for leading our 5.7M Seed round. A great partner, they share our vision for bringing the best AI code agents to market completely for free, enabling everyone to build great products with the top tier frontier models.
Funding announcement in reply 👇
We just shipped some git-related improvements:
- Fix Start GitHub issue from @ cto tag.
- Branch selector no longer crashes if branch deleted.
Link to full changelog in reply 👇