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Re: Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents

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Post by blooalien »

quotemstr wrote: post #14
rossant wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty sure this website is satire.

Not sure what would make you think that. https://hic-ai.com/papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf seems like an awfully lot of trouble to go through for a joke that isn't even funny. HIC AI is a Delaware corporation, registration number 10476082, incorporated 1/16/2026.

Yeah, and they have a Discord channel, and a GitHub repo, and all that junk too. Awful lotta trouble to go to for attempted joke/satire. More likely a vibe-slop scam-corp tryin'a cash in on the AI hype-train; feels like it from what I've read on their site and GitHub thus far anywho.

Re: Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents

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Post by blooalien »

quotemstr wrote: post #3

Patent pending? On what? > insert a line, delete a range, replace a character, edit a column The ed(1) command set 50 years old. I doubt it's patentable. These guys are far from the first to apply fine-grained text editing to LLM toolsets. I've been teaching models to do it for years. Hell, models want to use sed and awk so much that you have to hold them back. I'm so repulsed by the idea that these guys think they c…

> "I've been teaching models to do it for years. Hell, models want to use sed and awk so much that you have to hold them back."

Yeah, I been givin' Qwen a "toolchain" containing `sed`,`awk`,`rg`, and `git` in a "sandbox" directory for playin' around with text editing lately. Havin' a ton of fun dinkin' around with Ollama, Python, and Qwen. Don't need much more'n that to get yerself into all kinda trouble. ;)

Qwen and Gemma make a real fine pair with a bit of Python "glue" too. Gemma's real good with image data (classifying and describing, tagging, title-ing, extracting and translating text, etc) and Qwen's better at code related stuff, so... Teamwork, yay! \o/ :)

Re: Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents

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Post by embedding-shape »

sfvisser wrote: post #2

Why does “patent pending” almost automatically sounds like it’s going to be an underwhelming technology.

Because most of the people rushing to get patents are money-horny people, not people who believe they truly are about to change the world, so it's a great signal that this is yet another idea from money-horny people.

Re: Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents

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Post by SturgeonsLaw »

blooalien wrote: post #20
piterrro wrote: post #17

So I’ll have to buy a license for using my mouse now?

> "So I’ll have to buy a license for using my mouse now?" You'll have to rent a license to use their mouse.

The most baffling thing is that this is not (as I had assumed) about giving agents control of a mouse cursor, instead it's finer-grained text editing skills.

The word mouse has had an established meaning in computing for over half a century, so it seems like an odd term to lay claim to for something so unrelated.

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