Electric Agents launches on sync

The core bet is right: once agents become ongoing workstreams rather than one-shot prompts, the database/sync layer matters as much as the model. Electric is packaging that thesis into a full platform, which makes it more interesting as infrastructure than as another chat wrapper.

• –Durable Streams and forking solve a real pain point: agent sessions that disappear when a laptop closes or a process dies
• –Shared state across users and agents is a better default than stitching together websockets, queues, and ad hoc memory layers
• –Open source plus self-hosting lowers lock-in, which matters if the product is meant to sit under core workflows
• –The pitch is strongest for builders of collaborative AI apps, dev tools, and internal agent systems, not casual chatbot use
• –Electric is effectively competing on substrate, not prompts: if this works, the “agent OS” layer could become a real category