Swyx claims Airtable founder Howie Liu had already sold the company
“I was also mentioned, I was also thinking about Howie Lu. From Airtable. Effectively just did the same thing with Hyperagent, except that he didn't run it in parallel that much. He basically had already sold the company and was just kind of doubleheading for a…”
Sacks: Airtable spun out Hyper Agent prior to Bending Spoons acquisition
“Airtable spun out its AI agent business, which is known as Hyper Agent. Into a separate independent company prior to this acquisition.”
Howie Liu runs 30 autonomous cloud code instances in parallel for HyperAgent
“The way I develop on hyper agent is I have like 30 different cloud code instances running in parallel, and each one is coupled up to like a browser, Fully autonomous. It can go and like get other agents to comment on any PRs it creates.”
Liu: Hyperagent drafted an Airtable board memo investors called his best
“Like it's funny, like one of our recent board memos that I wrote and sent out to our entire board and kind of major investor list. Like, you know, a lot of it was researched and crafted by hyper agent, right? Obviously with like my, you know, kind of instincts…”
Liu: AI app generation is already a commoditized feature
“App building is just a feature now. It's a commoditized feature, and what it can actually do is, like, go and research the end-to-end of, like, here's actually the business context of what I'm trying to do, and then build the app informed by it, right?”
Liu: Hyperagent is the Macintosh experience to OpenClaw's Linux
“Hyperagent, It's just much more of, like, the Macintosh experience, right, versus the Linux.”
Liu: Agent market will split into unscalable prototypes and clunky builders
“Where I see the landscape fragmenting into like, there's going to be really easy, fun kind of prototyping tools and products that are kind of like easy to get started with, but then ultimately don't scale with you as you want to become like a real serious ente…”