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Here's hoping I can wait out the current shortage before any upgrades (I typically only upgrade every 5-7 years or so anyway) or replacements, because I do not plan to pay the new price.
The discussion around coding agents nowadays is steering towards harnesses (which is probably a better description of what this is). "Agent" here is doing a lot of heavy lifting and has become a bit of a catch-all term to describe a model + harness + tooling + prompt + some other things that I've probably not thought about. The harness is a part that's being explored more as many believe it's where we can get some better performance out of the models.
This one in particular is from Vercel who provide a service to use models, so they have a vested interest in providing a harness.
I'm disappointed that we've fragmented across Node/Deno/Bun, although I was briefly hopeful for Deno since they tried to standardise around ESM and provide a strong standard library. Of course this still had to be bundled for the browser, which has its own issues.
The things you layer on top of Node via npm could count as "not-boring" in this instance, especially with the number of supply-chain attacks each month.
Note: this is for Cowork, not sure if that makes a difference, I don't use the desktop app for coding.
Claude asked me a question at 12:05pm my time, came back at 12:40 and the question prompt disappeared and it spat back a message. Previously when I was writing a Google Doc, it would prompt me for questions, I'd come back and it would have timed out like this and just made a new version of the doc.
Tmux is highly keyboard driven and I hardly use any graphical applications outside of my browser. My workflow is basically the same regardless of whether I'm using Linux, macOS or Windows because my workflow lives in the terminal. If I close the terminal, I can continue the session and I can SSH into the machine from another machine.
It's also got a rich plugin ecosystem and is available on pretty much any package distribution. You can also preprogram your layouts if you always do your layouts the same way.
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Developer with 10+ years in the industry across development and software testing. Experienced in delivering high-performance applications for direct email and SMS digital marketing, loyalty programs and healthcare.Regulation around the world needs to catch up to address the harmful nature of the technology, as it is currently moving faster than the politicians can / want to move.
To give a good use case (audio generation specifically), the 2002 game Morrowind has had a resurgence lately and it's a really great game, but it lacks fully voiced lines for dialogue. A community project called Voices of Vvardenfell uses ElevenAI to generate voice lines from the voiced lines that do exist in the game. They don't take away jobs from artists because it was a monumental (unpaid) undertaking from community volunteers to do this before (there was such a big project but it was abandoned last I saw).
So as with any emerging technologies, I think it just needs to be properly regulated.
AntennaPod is good but it really lacks in UX polish / defaults. I say go for gold and make your own personal apps. My personal podcast app won't do what your idea of a personal podcast app should do so you can make the app that you want with an LLM subscription.
Of course I know the importance of preventing problems, but how do you properly measure it? A data leak is immediately visible, but preventing them is less so.