But… why? (pun intended)

They raised $17M to build what appears to be solvable by some git wrapper scripts that could have been written by AI in 5 minutes?

To me the extra "wat" about this is that if I spend the sub-$1 to get the git wrapper scripts, I can get them exactly the way I want them, instead of being mandated to use the commands they made up. A huge gain for AI is the ability to have exactly the software you personally want, even if nobody else wants it just so.

So they are building the exact opposite of the need that AI brings forward. What they are building is not even median software that is in danger of being replaced (e.g. see Cloudflare spending a week to build "a wordpress"), but something that's the most extreme example of AI-will-replace-this that could possibly exist.

Who will buy this?

The only way this makes sense is as a plea for being acqui-hired (and the project dropped).