Introducing All Hands AI is the short post in which All Hands AI announced itself as a new company, founded by Robert Brennan, Xingyao Wang and Graham Neubig. It states the company’s mission — to build the world’s best AI software development agents, for everyone, in the open — and spends the rest of the post explaining why each part of that mission matters to the founders and what the company will build.
The product it names is OpenDevin, described as a platform for open-source AI software agents, which the company says it will keep improving in accuracy and user experience while building its community.
Key Points
- The post argues that software powers almost everything, and that AI agents that can write software will make software engineers faster and may even let non-engineers build useful and complex apps.
- It argues for openness on two grounds: a technology this powerful should be something everyone can use and help improve, and developers like open source because they can fix what is not working and contribute to it.
- It names OpenDevin as what the company is building and commits to improving its accuracy and user experience and to building its community.
- It explains the decision to form a company: the open-source community is described as amazing, but world-class user experience, extensive experimentation to improve agents, and a product that makes a dent in real-world development need full-time staff and compute.
- It closes by announcing that the company is hiring for full-time positions and inviting new community members.
Context
The post is a founding announcement written by one of the founders and makes no measured claims; its arguments for AI software development agents and for openness are the founders’ own stated reasons.