A behind-the-scenes working session with Tarun Sachdeva (@tarunsachdeva) for an upcoming film collaboration.
Tarun is the founder of Traces (@tracesdotcom), a platform for sharing the work you do with coding agents.
In this conversation with @internetvin, he walks through what a trace actually is, opening with a single session and pulling on it until the whole product unfolds: profiles, teams, the CLI, integrations, and the discover feed.
Timestamps
00:00:00 What is a Trace?
00:06:55 Categorization, Status & How the Summary is Built
00:08:30 The Trace as Atomic Unit
00:10:30 What Happens Between Linear and a Code Base
00:12:55 The Middle Made Visible
00:14:00 Andrew Nesbitt & Everyone is a Beginner
00:18:00 Project Baton: The CLI
00:22:40 Publish, Resume & Git for Agents
00:25:00 Single-Player vs Multiplayer
00:30:00 Integrations: GitHub, Hugging Face & Linear
00:33:50 Why Tarun Stopped Using an Issue Tracker
00:35:00 The Discover Tab
00:37:00 JC, Jake & Reading Other People's Traces
in traces v0.6.0 you can
- search your local sessions across agents
- launch any of the sessions you see directly in the agent cli (currently mac only)
- view sessions from other people in the orgs you're in, directly from the terminal
I will be demo'ing this and a few other things tonight at @devtoolsTO
@zendadddy noticed you say you don’t commit. this is a big one! i’d commit a lot. basically like save points in a video game. if something breaks, you can get your agent to find when it was working last, look at what changed, and use that to pinpoint the problem
@zendadddy this usually doesn’t happen for me. i can see that happening if it involves lots of motion or moving pieces.
if i have a general idea of how id implement it myself, its usually fine. things go off the rails when i dont know whats happening, the n you cant really debug
beyond tokenmaxxing
the new traces contribution graph is a new view of your team's sessions over time, and a small step in giving you better tools to understand and analyze your sessions
now live for all teams on @tracesdotcom
Announcing Traces for Teams
A new way to share coding agent sessions in your team, with a free plan for startups and open source projects and custom plans for larger teams.
We've been using this for a few weeks now and it's really improved how we work together.