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We've re-invented GNU screen in the most inefficient way imaginable

Well it DOES have less storage than a Nomad (hence lame), but this way you don't need to pay for a public IP address, or for a VPS to run Wireguard on, or for a commercial VPN solution, and then install a terminal emulator on your phone and set up SSH keys.

People tried reinventing terminals, SSH, and tmux for phones. It's a pretty terrible experience using your thumbs. And it takes significant know-how to set up.

And in modern stacks, it almost necessitates a man in the middle - tailscale is common but it's still a central provider. So is it really the most inefficient way possible?

I’m running the agent in tmux in a colo. When I’m at a computer I use that, when I’m on the go the RC app is more convenient

That’s not at all how this works. Commands are relayed through Anthropic’s servers with a client polling mechanism.

Right, that's the "most inefficient way possible" (though personally I disagree, there are more inefficient ways to be found).

You could put the transport protocol on the blockchain, I suppose

You are making me more creative.

we can upload snapshot of zip files to blockchain, then notify customer via servers

I'm probably 10 years out of date. Are ethereum smart contracts still a thing? I'm sure you could deploy one of those for every agent session to handle the notifications

Even better, train an entirely new LLM with your prompt added to its data set. It will be imbued with its own latent sense of purpose. All you need to do after that is type "let there be light!"

Yes, that's a significantly less efficient way to manage persistent sessions

I'm pretty sure "how do we disallow running our agents in screen sessions" is on a jira board at some places

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