not a very helpful title? maybe: "qm - a multiplayer agent harness for work"
It's an HN-ism that it's OK for titles to make readers do a little work.
qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
They specifically ask not to create/submit a formal proposal. I do not see any restriction on the use of AI otherwise.
i read the emphasized " human-written " part, in combination with that last line, as a blanket restriction (for contributing). but perhaps i read it wrong.
The point is that they just want your prompts, not your code.
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#74It's fascinating to see new UI primitives and concepts get invented in the LLM era. The sea of creativity makes it hard to even understand most of what each new app does, and nobody describes them well. When I went to the Hermes agent web page, I was left with zero clue about what it did or what it could do. It took a bit of digging to find the right part of the qm page that helped me grok what was going on. I've bec…
It is fascinating and I love to see it. Ultimately though, why not build your own? I think that in part is what we're beginning to see-- highly customized and personalized software. I take most of these as inspiration these days and just build my own. Nothing you can't hammer out with a few good Claude sessions.
These new experiences are built atop layers and layers of bedrock libraries that we, generally, don't reinvent. Or we reinvent one or two.
What's notable to me is that ux doesn't so far generally have this behavior. That as per this post people just build a new app, a new experience.
I want to believe over time we'll have better composable & malleable ux experiences atop broader platforms for us. That over time the "go it alone" path has other worth ways to innovate that use a more substantial shared base. It's dangerous to go it alone, and doing so equipped with just our wooden sword and some courage and perhaps an LLM wisp is an amazing adventure, but I think the survival rate & impact would be much better if we had more general ux systems that supported better innovation atop them, and if less people did the pure "why not build your own" path.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
i read the emphasized " human-written " part, in combination with that last line, as a blanket restriction (for contributing). but perhaps i read it wrong.
The point is that they just want your prompts, not your code.
yes, specifically they want purely human-written ones.
i understand why they want their own agent to do the code, and i can see the reasoning behind it. but not allowing ai to format/tidy up/flesh out the proposal is the part that i thought was a little funny.
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#77Aren't there a ton of products already doing this? Why not just use claude Cowork? Surely they're simpler/better/more featureful/developed than the alternatives here? What advantage does this have? Would love to see a 'QM vs Cowork' comparison!
> Why not just use claude Cowork?
Many people don't want to support a company pushing for regulatory capture.
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#78Is Hermes the best openclaw like agent as they mention running it before? Also, what are power uses really using openclaw like systems for?
Still figuring it out, but it's been really convenient to have an always-on agent that has access to internal systems and can be triggered by webhooks. Some examples of what we use it for: - automatically fixing simple CI failures - getting production alerts and automatically creating RCAs and a fix PR - periodically checking slow DB queries and finding ways to speed them up. - creating charts to answer one-off quest…
> periodically checking slow DB queries and finding ways to speed them up.
How does this work in practice?
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#79It's fascinating to see new UI primitives and concepts get invented in the LLM era. The sea of creativity makes it hard to even understand most of what each new app does, and nobody describes them well. When I went to the Hermes agent web page, I was left with zero clue about what it did or what it could do. It took a bit of digging to find the right part of the qm page that helped me grok what was going on. I've bec…
It is fascinating and I love to see it. Ultimately though, why not build your own? I think that in part is what we're beginning to see-- highly customized and personalized software. I take most of these as inspiration these days and just build my own. Nothing you can't hammer out with a few good Claude sessions.
But why build your own from scratch when you can do it on top one extensible UI platform that already has all of your organizational context, not to mention coding agents already built-in that you can just tell it to build & deploy your personalized workflow softwaree from scratch? ;-)
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#80What is yc software?
A team of brilliant people who work at YC shipping products internally and externally.