Isn't GPT 4 very costly? Plus you're running a scraper. How do you plan to keep this free, or is this just a teaser?
This may be useful but would love some clarity on how long you're gonna keep it like this.
Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
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Re: Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
#22heh, I was half-working on something like this.
The ideal is to have one stack that can pipe
whisper voice input ("hey, could you tell me what alarms I have tomorrow?") ->
LLM command interpretation ("match input query to pre-defined commands and arguments", "LISTALARMS, , , 8, 2, 2023") ->
underlying script ("{'23:00', 'Doctor's Appointment'}") ->
natural re-statement ("re-word this data as an answer to the question xxx", "you have a doctor's appointment tomorrow at 11 o'clock PM") ->
so-vits/tortoise-tts/some TTS plugin
nodes could be fabbed out of single-use .py scripts, and the whole thing could be compiled into a headless script. endless possibilities.
Re: Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
#23Wow this is so cool, feels like it could be a better Zapier
Re: Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
#24Isn't GPT 4 very costly? Plus you're running a scraper. How do you plan to keep this free, or is this just a teaser? This may be useful but would love some clarity on how long you're gonna keep it like this.
Great question. Running GPT-4, the scraper, SMS, and email isn't free, so to keep the experiment going forever we would need to charge at some point.
For those finding the service useful already: we're also thinking about open sourcing it so you can just run the loops yourself to keep costs down.
Re: Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
#25This looks really cool! I really think an idea of a proper UI tool to chain different tools together is nice. https://flowiseai.com/ seems to be the most similar, but it's quite a bit more technical, and doesn't seem to be focused on doing the whole thing by itself - rather, you can create chains that can then be used through APIs.
I really hope you open-source this :)
Re: Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
#26Wow this is so cool, feels like it could be a better Zapier
I know Zapier has new LLM features but I haven't done in a detailed comparison. I would be curious if the Magic Loops creators could speak to what their product does that is different. On first glance, it seems to do less than Zapier, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, just that it might excel for different use-cases.
Re: Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
#27This looks really cool! I really think an idea of a proper UI tool to chain different tools together is nice. https://flowiseai.com/ seems to be the most similar, but it's quite a bit more technical, and doesn't seem to be focused on doing the whole thing by itself - rather, you can create chains that can then be used through APIs. I really hope you open-source this :)
Found one problem - when I get a really big json (e.g. https://a.4cdn.org/g/catalog.json, sorry for a 4chan example), I can't pass it into the code block because I get "{ "error": "limits.read.size", "message": "Failed while reading stream: Max output size exceeded (100000 bytes)" }"
Is there no way to bypass this currently?
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#28First of all, this is amazing/fantastic/cool as hell!
Second, this is what I remember Retool looking like long before it became a huge tool. I feel that this is a step towards building bespoke tools using LLM tech. (Of course, I'm sure others started in similar ways, but this is one I remember.)
Re: Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
#29This looks really cool! I really think an idea of a proper UI tool to chain different tools together is nice. https://flowiseai.com/ seems to be the most similar, but it's quite a bit more technical, and doesn't seem to be focused on doing the whole thing by itself - rather, you can create chains that can then be used through APIs. I really hope you open-source this :)
Found one problem - when I get a really big json (e.g. https://a.4cdn.org/g/catalog.json , sorry for a 4chan example), I can't pass it into the code block because I get "{ "error": "limits.read.size", "message": "Failed while reading stream: Max output size exceeded (100000 bytes)" }" Is there no way to bypass this currently?
I've just increased the limit to 1MB on our test box, which should be sufficient for your file (424KB), but it will take awhile to get the code runners switched over to the new image.
Update: You should be good to go now, all the instances have been replaced.
Re: Show HN: Magic Loops – Combine LLMs and code to create simple automations
#30Wow this is so cool, feels like it could be a better Zapier
I know Zapier has new LLM features but I haven't done in a detailed comparison. I would be curious if the Magic Loops creators could speak to what their product does that is different. On first glance, it seems to do less than Zapier, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, just that it might excel for different use-cases.
Our goal with Magic Loops was to leverage a LLM-first approach to programming, allowing more people to write code that does useful things.
It turns out that when you write simple programs, they often resemble what you'd find on Zapier or IFTTT :)