> my friend is a novice and needs extra help with things like: copy pasting the code into a text file

I don't think this is using an agent harness.

"rawdogging" - as the youth says - weights on local comodore cluster?

They are either using some generic web frontend, ala chatgpt, some local app like claude desktop, or programming app like cursor.

Each of those will detect that you are "building an app" and will spit out code in one form or another. You have to try really hard and be very explicit that you want the output in some other format than code.

Almost all about open weight, but the title says Open Source.

rip off.

Google wave rides again!

I'd say the thing with email that most improvements would need improved standards?

That said, as with the emacs user example, the ability to automatically process all your email in madly custom ways can now be opened to the masses.

Except it's often faster to make the change yourself than explain it to an AI.

I don't like that word, which was previously a common part of my vocabulary, being forever ruined?

My father's name was Claude, but, you know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We need to get these companies to predeclare what names they're going to use for the next 50 or 60 years so we can avoid them.

Pouring one out for all the "Alexa"s in the world.

It is weird to me that Amazon chose a fairly common name. There are plenty of short, more unique names out there.

I have ours set to “Computer” anyways, partly due to Star Trek and partly because it annoys my wife when we use the term in conversation and it picks it up. It has the side effect of being harder to pronounce for our kids, which was probably a good thing.

I think the fact you need tool calling to stop it doing that, shows the underlying issue with trusting it to do anything without a human

It’s still faster to use AI to generate code while reading and guiding the code. Hell even long before LLms I would write python scripts to generate boilerplate code etc. LLM can be used similarly as a productivity boost in serious systems.

This is a good parallel. In the 90s when I learned to drive I was quite good at navigating. Now google maps is on a screen in my car telling me where to go whenever I drive beyond my most common routes.

Really all the research telling us about AI skills atrophy.. We should have guessed from previous experience.

Old people my entire life have made fun of younger people for “not being able to read maps” or something.

But I’ve never seen anyone follow a GPS so religiously into so many obvious dead ends than elderly Uber drivers.

Good to have more than a hammer in your toolbox!