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My first thought is that, before LLMs, getting out of your comfort zone to work with folks in Kyoto in their language would have been an important step in getting yourself ready to live there successfully. It would have been difficult and awkward, but that's part of the process. Or it was. I wish you luck once you get there.

Since you seem to be a high profile user, I wonder, do you not have a fear of basically giving away the keys to your kingdom to a corporate entity? That first, second, third parties or malicious actors in or outside the supplier chain might use this information against you, or the likes of you? Or simply, what kind of society you support by using and advocating for this service?

Both tasks seem to be like a job that in the older times could have been handled by a personal assistant / a human agent, probably way more expensive, but the threat vector seems to be so much simpler.

Your use case sounds so not ordinary to me that it is wild to think about it.

> all sorts of insane tasks that would have taken infinitely longer and been unbelievably painful on my own

Your use case here is beyond mine, but I have used custom tooling to handle contractor bid process workflows for projects at our home.

AI applied to products will allow people to not only consider but actively move on changes that did not seem reasonably possible before.

I've absolutely loved Muse so far. It's one that my wife has no problem using and the VM they give you is kind of insane. I had it install duckdb and it's running automated exports into duckdb for my budgeting for me now.

I've also installed claude code on there, but haven't really had much of a reason to need it yet.

I think I'll be giving duet a shot despite how much I've enjoyed Muse just because Opus 5.5 is so insanely good.

Wow what is the story there? Like why Japan? I’m sure you’re learning a ton through the process.

That's like if you were in the 90s/00s and you're complaining about having to hear about this "internet" thing all the time.

The funny thing is the front page is 100% AI and all the comments on the posts are 100% anti-AI.

Well, it is the biggest trend in tech right now.

Someday there will be other trends, but it's currently AI's turn.

It's like being a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

There are far more new opportunities after AI than before AI. Try to find the positive perspective.

Well, a couple of years before that it was all NFTs all the time. Then before that it was web3. Then before that it was the blockchain in general. And then before that it was Haskell and monads.

That's just how it goes.

> every day the front page is filled with mostly LLM-related announcements.

I agree, that HN has mostly lost its spirit and soul and feels more like a AI-announcement bot.

> Whilst I appreciate the impact of AI and its long-term implications for humanity as we know it

I disagree, that the impact of AI and its long-term implications for humanity are for our common good. I think its the other way around.

The LLM filling is actually more interesting to me as the frontpage of HN had already gone far too mainstream for me.

This may explain why these days I actually rely on Slashdot more for tech news.

I think that as these tools coalesce and we start to see the real super-in intelligence leaders come out on top, there'll probably be less volume and fewer but deeper things to discuss.

I happen to believe AI will be the biggest change in my career in tech. I therefore think it's pretty natural that there is lots of news about it.

But I would welcome other tech news on the site. A quick count says that less than half the submission are AI related and that is split between four types of ai news (how to handle security, a new model, a non-model release from a major lab and politics). Would you complain about there being too many news about programming languages if the frontpage had C++, Ruby, Lisp and a great guide to ARM assembly?

there needs to be a hnews AI edition

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Yeah, it caught an AWS bill on a random account I had made earlier in the month that was pushing $50+. That's been about the most useful thing so far.

Makes sense though. The use case for these always-on assistants (Muse, Dot, Instinct) isn’t coding and complex technical projects but more benign stuff like email and appointments.

I don't favor X models much but Grok Bot has been worth every penny for me so far.

Oh I absolutely LOVE letting claude code manage passwords via 1password! I have the CLI installed, I have whatever 1password calls a subdirectory/permission group, and I have some ssh keys and other passwords that I would have otherwise stored in an `.env` file of some kind. The biggest difference is I'm able to update the permission group and have all of my agents get the new permissions without manually updating them all.

It also feels safer? But I'm not sure if that's truly the case.

If done correctly, the agent will only be able to request that passwords be filled, but the secrets will only be handled by the password manager and browser extension, which will be able to set some security boundaries and make checks on which domains are allowed.

If your issue is allowing agents to use your credentials and take actions on your behalf, then that is a separate question.

1Password has had vaults for a very long time now. You can also key API credentials specifically to a vault. I've been letting agents access _their own_ vault for awhile.

I have a custom wrapper for 1PW that lets an agent browse and request credentials, then I can provide it a lease to access those for a certain amount of time. Super nice and I hope they build that in to 1PW itself.

Yeah I certainly wouldn't give it access to that tbh

better than .envs and plaintext, which was largely the case so far

I think this is a direct competitor to Dot and Muse, I've been using Muse more recently and it's surprising how little context/memory managment you ahve to do when it's just one long thread.

Much like Claude Design, expect it to converge eventually. For all the bragging about tens of thousands of commits per day, they seem to lack a lot of the basics when it come to software design.

I agree, this is what was under their X post -- I don't think I can change it anymore though sadly.

FYI, I've had no problem letting Claude code read iMessage and send iMessage from my Mac logged into iCloud. The first time you ask it to do that, macOS will throw up a security prompt asking for permission for Terminal.app to access the data, but its something I've been using a lot recently.

It. Don’t anthropomorphize AI.

They don’t let things connect to iMessage because they don’t want spam bots.

same, the only reason why I haven't switched from instinct to dots is the surface being whatsapp

Any reason you're not using ChatGPT Dots which is also using Astra (and also unlimited free usage this month) and precisely designed to solve the proactive/autonomous issue? https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/

Same as any other AI startup. Make a big enough splash and get acquired (or acquihired).

... from this, and not Muse, Grokbot, and Dot? This is Claude catching up in functionality, not something new.

> I'm still not sure why I'd pick one where I'm locked into a specific model family

I'm guessing mostly because they subsidize a lot of the costs

I like Muse, and OpenAI's Dot. But what will differentiate this for me is the model. I grew frustrated with Muse's lackluster model, and increasingly with OpenAI's Dot as even if it implements my asks with Astra I just have not been to happy with the output. If Claude/Opus can do better, that's all the differentiation I need.

the trick imo is Opus 5.5 is the only differentiator you need. remember that ClawdBot dba OpenClaw began as a way to harness some ancient Claude model (4.5? lolll) in an always on Telegrammable agent.

> dot, bot, and duet

And Meta Muse

Organizing photos. Compiling hockey schedules. Giving out my home address to strangers.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/meta-agent-muse-conc...

it's quite useful for some of my personal usecases honestly, especially with having a sandbox and computer use -- from being on my tailnet to handle tasks on my machines with CLI and doing routine repo work on my github to ordering periodic groceries from comparing apps, managing my calendar, scheduling calls, etc, largely if there's any task that's loopable and isn't, it's a waste, I just describe what I need and how often and they just do it with me saying yes each time.

I got my dad instinct and he's maintaining websites with voice notes through whatsapp which is and insane UX comfort for him.

While I'm still wary, I hope to one day make use of them to offset my ADHD-like tendencies. Normally you'd have friends or family for that, but in my case a proactive bot would be a more readily available and reliable solution...

Tbh, I still see labs demoing "reservations" or "email triaging" as the best use-cases. Definitely sure there are many niche ones too, but I'm still not sold on these.

I’m not best friends with this stuff yet either; but sometimes to me it’s a nice layer of abstraction for everything and anything regarding your digital life.

The simplest use case is tuning out all the digital noise in your life and having them only surface the important stuff.

And they never even launched a cash-burning video generation service either. Stupid Anthropic, what are they even doing?!

Google did release something similar and OpenAI and meta are also doing their own, I guess Openclaw in the cloud and easy is the next step in the market

Hasn't Google Spark been doing this for a long while?

I found Argon subpar with any long context work sadly, not sure how that'd turn out

Shame I had to vouch you, I agree with you. Arguably those insights are just used to train models and profit off you as well. To a lesser extent this information can be captured by paying API prices to any provider. So ultimately if your threat model has no tolerance for this you need to go fully local. Models that run on 24gb VRAM are...useable now, but will not have the capabilities of these hosted products. So depends where your values lie.