Man I was just coming here to say the same thing. I have a Ph.D. in CS and should be the target audience for this as a guy doing startup stuff that could easily try out a new architecture or tool.

I read "Rivet (https://rivet.dev) – a fast, high-density, and scalable orchestrator for agentic workloads using the actor model" and I think "I have no idea what this means, except it's a new way to make a backend service of some kind??"

I've reached an age where, if I don't understand what it is from your description, I'm not the problem.