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search is not their core product though, it's ads. they ain't challenging anything.

this article is great. we need to protect our ways of thinking, and it's going to be -- already is -- extremely difficult

don't forget the Jornadas. i guess those were PocketPC-powered but i def bought one circa 2005 for like $90 and i would do it again right now

extremely helpful! thank you. my real mind killer here is "everybody knows how a harness works" vs. "this is for people who don't know what 'harness' even means" and i need to figure out how to close that gap.

i am somebody else but my Show HN got zero engagement so please feel free to look at mine: http://github.com/0gsd/enough n.b. not a coding harness. it's for writing. but extensibility is a big (perhaps too big) part of it. http://enough.support has some of the principles outlined.

hello Hacker News! i made enough, an easily-configurable agent harness for writers.

i'm trying to figure out what else i need to do to properly launch this besides some YouTube video demonstrations and additional promotion ... perhaps HN can tell me.

i realized if there's something to it, i'd probably find out organically with some selective promotion to more experienced agent wranglers.

i honestly figured i would see at least one project like this per week across here and Reddit when i started working on it last month, but i haven't seen anything with this approach. do let me know if i have missed some.

it's obviously not an "original" idea; my headline probably should have included "Pi for writers" since that seems to be the closest analogue, though i admit i have not tried Pi myself yet. but it definitely has some unique aspects.

particularly the "non-technical writer" orientation, which is likely the most interesting bit to me and definitely the most nerve-wracking ... to say nothing of my foolhardy belief that it might be useful to "writers who hate ai."

ultimately there's only one way to answer these anxieties: ship it. no use waiting around if part of my pitch is that it can still be a going concern in 100 years!

the help content surfaced in the UI is frankly most of the documentation this initial version needs, but i added some FAQ type stuff at http://enough.support too.

so: what do you think?

i think people are probably already doing it. i made a skill scanner but it's also just easy to download a zip and inspect the contents... but people are loading these things remotely. i agree that it is easy to not install a pentester's magic skill, but the attack capabilities a skill can have are pretty insane. people should just make their own is my pov.

really like this implementation, i've tried similar things in a web app and ended up with mostly clown music. also had no idea how good it would feel to read a human written github readme again. felt great

that feels like the opposite of "empathy" to me. why would i, a reader of better offline, care about a corporation "winning" something, whatever it is? he really is becoming more like idk bill o'reilly or rush limbaugh with every successive "successful" post to me. maybe they should hire him at the new infowars. if nothing else, he knows how to do pr

what's weirdest to me (and i agree with you) is that it could ALSO be true that a highly competently managed, highly capitalized closed source and weights model training on tons of real-world data non-stop COULD stay ahead of open weights models, and that lead COULD grow. now, how competent (much less merciless) the frontier-blazing U.S. corporations will be able to be long-term ... i suspect they are right to be nervous and highly focused on optics, regardless of the truth :)

the flow of the words IS the content?

i still can't believe "labor capture" has not caught on as a resistance slogan yet.

hmm stableaudio.com seems to be dead tho? at least it is for me

Gemini Code Assist goes away i believe

everyone, i think. doesn't mean auteurs have to make movies glorifying their flaws without a trace of introspection for 20+ years.

lol Stuart Semple has been trying to build one he kickstartered for like 2 years. i think the last status update said he got the lasso working

"zero user compliance" you say? now that's my kinda surveillance!

I passed the first wave even though I did not kill most of the invaders. On the other hand, I couldn't dream of a single question to ask.

because the customer doesn't get to pretend that if they got angry enough, a real live person could be made to suffer by being fired. if anything, making the humans follow the canned responses only encourages this thirst for revenge in the customer. now THAT'S efficiency!

you have to admit: he is not as difficult to project paratechnical admiration onto as sama is. maybe the board wants him to be the next ceo

"Juan is responsible for the tech" first of all, one of these cute names is not like the others. but more importantly... what on earth does "the tech" refer to here?

the idea of buying colostrum from a vibe-coded website is somehow uncomfortable. must be a me problem

what if either user uses these skills with offline weights? should help with 2), at least right?

also, remember that MOST of those "billion users" generally don't have problems that require product support expertise every day. if each of them were still paying a retainer for access to high-touch support, all kinds of crazy fun stuff would be possible.

oh i think i agree, with the economics tech companies (all companies, really) and their users currently accept/demand.

but if caring about and solving customer problems was an actual income driver for a company, it could be very different.

i don't think that's going to happen, because i think most users (like Anthropic's) will continue to refuse to pay >$0 for support -- or to claim that their subscription payment should somehow also cover support, which is ridiculous, since they can see with their own "eyes" how little support their "compute subscription" gets them -- and thus companies will continue to invest ~$0, if not less, in meaningful support models.

it still blows my mind that nobody is willing to try charging people an extra $20 a month for unlimited support calls. most customers are DESPERATE for people to talk to about their problems.

instead, they all just try to winnow the cost down as low as possible, and then point to the expense to explain the degradation of service.

it's hard, but not THAT hard, to find a few dozen people who can deal with large volumes of support tickets every day. so for a company like anthropic, you'd use a customized claude to triage and then those few dozen people spend all day actually caring about solving users' problems. a contract with fin fka intercom (lol) to offload this is a step in the wrong direction imo, but then nobody pays for support so it's hard to turn it into a revenue stream.

but the only "how" you can add is by connecting your linkedin? is that the only meaning my life is allowed to have? i can't talk about all the cool stuff i do on linkedin, i'd never get a job again.

so raagas are like scales? i thought it was just a type of music where the same songs are played by every artist, like blues, so maybe i don't get this idea at all. but is it about the order of scenes in movies? or like which scenes are "allowed" in a movie of a particular genre? in any case, are you familiar with the Aarne Thompson Uther index?

i am working on an offline weights harness for non-technical people, writers mainly. it's designed to work forever but also be adaptable as more weights get released etc.

it enforces very few paradigms, runs in the browser, and allows users to view and edit agent config files within the UI.

it's kind of a nightmare to try to figure out how to do this appropriately, but it's an interesting challenge and i have seen very few (~0?) projects with an approach like this ...

all the offline harnesses are optimized towards coding, vs. general text manipulation aka "writing."

hoping to publish v0.1.0 by the end of may.

True, though I have found that forcing (I use an agent skill to do this) an LLM's agent to document the reasoning behind each "decision" it makes seems to lead to better decision-making. Or at least, more justifiable decisions (even if the justification is bad).