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Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical

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Why This Matters

Mitchellh's new company, Superlogical, aims to address the fragmentation in software development tools by creating a unified, durable session layer that spans various environments and modes of operation. This innovation is significant as it promises to streamline workflows, reduce costs, and improve visibility across development, testing, and production systems, benefiting both the tech industry and consumers. By bridging the gaps between disparate tools and processes, Superlogical could enhance efficiency and collaboration in software engineering.

Key Takeaways

Building and operating software today spans local machines, remote hosts, sandboxes, services, and production systems. It has many modes of operation: interactively with a human developer, automatically through CI and background processes, and increasingly through agents working in parallel.

This work is all related, yet today's tools divide it into separate systems. Interactive tools assume a person at an interface. Automatic work disappears into jobs and logs. And as the work moves to production it lives behind separate systems and controls.

AI makes this fragmentation more visible and costly, but it did not create it. System administration, continuous integration, remote development and collaboration have strained the same boundaries for decades.

We believe the missing layer is a durable session around the work itself: one that can span applications and environments, provide relevant context by default, expose structured data and actions, preserve history, and be driven by software while remaining visible and controllable by people.