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Re: Kimi Work

#191
Agents are quite capable for any work involving CLI (not TUI) applications.

Seems to work for me to manage my emails. I have Proton Mail bridge and `mbsync` dumping all mail to a local folder, with an inotify watch script to react to new emails and classify them as either needing my attention (ignore) or something that does need my attention (send me a notification).

I've been looking for a good CLI spreadsheet editor

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#193
The most astonishing thing to me about the AI boom is that nobody really has managed to establish vendor lock-in. Switching is so easy.

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#194

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I highly recommend to anyone that uses them a lot - try to clone your own. I’ve got mine fully formed into how I want it, with features I haven’t seen anywhere else yet and with integration into everything I work with. We’ve lived in a world where every app had to fit enough people well enough - but now we live in a world where an app can be molded to be absolutely perfect for just you!

How did you build your own coding agent? What language/framework did you use?

Why would the language matter? Just use your favorite.

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#195

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How did you build your own coding agent? What language/framework did you use?

This comment is a great example of how large and strange the skills gap in AI is right now. Curious why your first impulse is not simply to point your favorite agent at a few examples and start brainstorming/planning from there? Multiple times I’ve built a purpose specific bespoke tool starting this way. In fact, it’s a great way to learn how specialized tools are built.

The problem of the sota models clamping down on third party harnesses should be stated upfront. Getting a SOTA model in a custom harness requires API pricing or risking an account ban, correct?

This preliminary change in cost may not make it worth it for people depending on which is their "favorite agent". Especially as the default harnesses for said agents continue to improve...

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#196

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This is the way. Guess what am I working right now? My own “Work” app that will be better than anything else available today!

Same here! https://github.com/rush86999/atom

Looks like the thing I am building but of course mine will be slightly different. It would be great if we could all meet to show off and discuss our AI stuff.

Re: Kimi Work

#197
If history is anything to go by, in the next week we'll see a distill of GPT 5.6 or Mythos that is not as powerful as either, but pokes its head just in front of Kimi K3.

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#198

kimi has been particularly shameless in copying codex 1:1, wow. Like, I get it, before condex there was conductor and a ton of other guis but this looks like they just copied the code. Also, their privacy disclosure is incredibly misleading: > How does Kimi Work protect my privacy when accessing local files? You have absolute control over your files. The built-in Ask before acting safeguard means Kimi will prompt you…

Do we still fall for the China = must be spying, US = wouldn't spy unless it's disclosed?

It's fair to say whatever software you run from any country of origin is hoovering up as much data about you that it can get away with.

If you haven't compiled open source, audited code and are running on that, all bets are already off.

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#199

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I am confused why they don't just offer a subscription with bring-your-own-harness, that would be a differentiator from claude/codex I think.

Negative margins to have you hooked on someone else’s software?

I am gently presuming that they are not selling tokens at a loss in their all-you-can-eat plans like the frontier models are, but maybe I'm wrong.

Re: Kimi Work

#200

kimi has been particularly shameless in copying codex 1:1, wow. Like, I get it, before condex there was conductor and a ton of other guis but this looks like they just copied the code. Also, their privacy disclosure is incredibly misleading: > How does Kimi Work protect my privacy when accessing local files? You have absolute control over your files. The built-in Ask before acting safeguard means Kimi will prompt you…

The Dutch have a saying: it's better to have stolen something well than to have invented something bad.

Words to live by.
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