alt Hacker NewsWait, why is this needed at all? Why is this backend AI specific?
Your Claude Code or Codex is already an expert in all existing backends and databases, we don't need a new backend for AI.
You can literally ask Claude to pick whatever backend it thinks it best, and it will build, deploy, and work fine and be significantly cheaper than Instant 1.0.
I think Stopa has a great answer here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711803
You can certainly use Instant without AI! We indexed on making the API easy to understand so projects built with Instant are easy to maintain. We also invested in our AX experience since we saw more folks coming to us when trying to build apps with AI