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Hello! Dagger CEO here

Hello! Dagger CEO here. Yes, we discovered that, in addition to running CI pipelines, Dagger can run AI agents. We learned this because our own users have told us. So now we are trying to capitalize on it, hence the ongoing changes to our website. We are trying to avoid the "something something agents" effect, but clearly, we still have work to do there :) It's hard to explain in marketing terms why a ephemeral execution engine, cross-language component system, deep observability and interactive CLI can be great at running both types of workloads... But we're going to keep trying! Internally we never thought of ourselves as a CI company, but as an operating system company operating in the CI market. Now we are expanding opportunistically to a new market: AI agents. We will continue to support both, because our platform can run both. If you are interested, I shared more details here: https://x.com/solomonstre/status/1895671390176747682

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In addition to the other comments suggesting dagger is not the saviour due to being VC-funded, it seems like they have decided there's no money in CI, but AI... yes there's money there! And "something something agents". From dagger.io... "The open platform for agentic software. Build powerful, controllable agents on an open ecosystem. Deploy agentic applications with complete visibility and cross-language capabilities in a modular, extensible platform. Use Dagger to modernize your CI, customize AI workflows, build MCP servers, or create incredible agents."

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Please be careful. I'd love to adopt Dagger, but the UI in comparison to GHA, is just not a value add. I'd hate for y'all to go the AI route that Arc did... and lose all your users. There is A LOT to CICD, which can be profitable. I think there's still a lot more features needed before it's compelling and I would worry Agentic AI will lead you to a hyper-configurable, muddled message.

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OU

I did ask you on your Discord, but perhaps you could summarize here / ELI5 why Dagger would be a great fit for a kind of "MCP-like" operating system?

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