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Just did - asked Claude Opus 4.8 in Claude Desktop to generate an image of a horse. It drew an SVG by hand in code and said (verbatim): "I drew it by hand in code, not with an AI i…

Thanks for trying it out and reporting this. We looked into the specific issue you mentioned. Collapsing replies does exist in the product, but we found it doesn't work for emails …

Makes a ton of sense, and the framing is correct - it's easy to build for the ecosystem you live in. We plan to add M365 (Outlook) soon. And noted on "Continue with Microsoft" at s…

I think we agree on the diagnosis: generating code was never the whole bottleneck. Where we differ is the conclusion. Work is implementation plus verification (specing, testing, ch…

You can use both private LLM instances or hosted ones. On private we support Ollama, LM Studio and any OpenAI compatible API. In hosted, we support: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Open…

That's fair - "your data lives on your machine as plain files" is the concrete claim, and something we should lead with. Will take a look at how Apple frames it, thanks.

vLLM works today - it exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and you can point Rowboat at a custom base URL in model settings.

Thank you! And would love to share notes. The tiny-models-only discipline is interesting; we do special handling just to keep local models from being overwhelmed, so I'd like to he…

Thanks for the concrete list! I understand where you are coming from. Will go through these and see what we could support. If you drop your stack into a GitHub issue, that's the be…

Yes - the files on disk are the source of truth. If you edit a note directly in the vault, Rowboat picks it up.

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Yes! You can use local models through Ollama and LM Studio. We do some special handling when you use local models, such as suppressing background agents when you chat, so the model…

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Local-first for us means: your data such as emails, notes, meetings, the knowledge graph - lives on your machine as plain Markdown, readable and deletable, and the app doesn't requ…

Yes! Under settings you can connect your WhatsApp or Telegram and chat with the assistant. It can query your knowledge and trigger coding tasks. In addition, we have a caffeinate m…

Fair list: 1. True - no OS-level container today. The constraint is approval gating: consequential actions surface as a permission ask before they run (a separate supervisor LLM fl…

On productivity: I feel the baseline for productivity has moved up. As a personal anecdote, I had a startup before with 25+ engineers. Now we are a startup of 2 co-founders and a c…

Thanks - would love to have this work for you. This is a great idea. Almost like an interview mode where the assistant asks pointed questions (using your capsule spec as a guidelin…

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Thanks, that's exactly the bet. Chat-heavy AI usage seems like a temporary phase.

That is a neat idea. We could tap into the locally-synced Thunderbird files for the knowledge graph, which would make ingestion straightforward. We could explore this. The write si…

This is brilliant, thanks for sharing! We're exploring a company brain - team-level context rather than just individual, and the context capsule seems like a great way to distill t…

That hunch is probably right - the labs are likely building towards this. However, our bet is that in knowledge work the labs don't have a structural advantage: the model isn't the…

That's great to hear! Would love your contributions. Please feel free to find us or DM me on Discord if you want to have a quick chat on anything.