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miguelacevedo

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    Comment #49139006

    The AI will auto-select tools if your request has enough context for it to pick up on the relevant tools. That said, sometimes you want to think in terms of "tool first" rather tha…

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    Comment #49136544

    Thanks for the video rec! Engelbart was heavily influenced by the 1945 essay "As We May Think". We agree with the general principles from the essay i.e. cognitive augmentation over…

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    Comment #49129209

    We had a couple of other weird ideas that we discarded as they were not as intuitive. ie you could drag in files and tools along with the idea of what you want, and Marble would co…

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    Comment #49128488

    Yes, I think the good comparison here is games with keyboard shortcuts + graphical interface. The interface helps with discovery, but it's complemented by the need for speed throug…

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    Comment #49126360

    To clarify, we meant "strange" from the perspective of a new user, not that terminals are bad. GUIs made common actions visible and discoverable: you could point, click, and drag i…

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    Comment #49120653

    The key design tension is whether the main space should be the asset you are working on or the work being delegated. For a lot of tasks, I don’t think you will need to stay inside …

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    Comment #49120242

    I think a better example is how Marble makes tools visible and easy to select for each task instead of requiring you to remember what exists or describing everything through the pr…

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    Comment #45438282

    Agree, Peter Naur famously said programming is theory building. Code you do not understand can be considered dead code.

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    Comment #45415834

    Great distinction! Ideally, friction occurs at the edge of your ability instead of on tedious tasks where you learn nothing, and it's more like work .

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    Comment #44617069

    Basically this. Not sure why people here love to doubt AI progress as it clearly makes strides

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    Comment #43487427

    I’m sorry but you will be the first to go in this new age. LLMs today are absolutely mind blowing, along with this image stuff. Either learn to adapt or remain a boomer.