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an office of your clones. next they'll add a clone HR department to handle the clone performance reviews, and a clone IT guy who's also a clone and keeps filing tickets against himself.
I do like the embrace of The Office as a theme because it so accurately represents the dysfunction of all of the agent swarms I’ve seen: Different personalities pursuing their own little goals that are all competing with each other in subtle ways that eventually leads a funny collapse of the outcome you wanted. There’s no denying that LLMs are getting better by the month, but the current wave of LLM office and person…
In areas of applicability where GenAI to now considered to be good/great, the pattern I've observed is a frighteningly rapid progression from "abjectly terrible", to "middling and mostly more trouble than it's worth" and then "good/great". Agentic coding and image generation are probably the best examples of this. There's no guarantee that this trend will be seen with virtual assistants, but if it does, we're on the…
I want to be an active player in my own life. I want to do things even if there's some friction.
All I can imagine is that future from WallE where everything is so easy no one tries or does anything at all
Hey guys, thanks for putting it here, I am Chaitanya I built Munder Difflin, I am here to answer all your questions(except nylonstrung). For people who haven't tried it: Munder Difflin is a local multi-agent harness that wraps around your existing claude code and codex subscriptions(we literally support almost all harnesses/coding agents). Simulations are deterministic, they do not consume tokens, infact most of the…
When you say no code leaves your machine, how does code get evaluated by your LLM of choice? Doesn't Claude see your code when you send a prompt just like it usually does?
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In areas of applicability where GenAI to now considered to be good/great, the pattern I've observed is a frighteningly rapid progression from "abjectly terrible", to "middling and mostly more trouble than it's worth" and then "good/great". Agentic coding and image generation are probably the best examples of this. There's no guarantee that this trend will be seen with virtual assistants, but if it does, we're on the…
Nothing can go wrong if we reduce direct human interaction even further and pay some megacorporations to MITM all of it.
I dream of a world where I never know if anything is real, or if the person I'm talking to is even human.
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In areas of applicability where GenAI to now considered to be good/great, the pattern I've observed is a frighteningly rapid progression from "abjectly terrible", to "middling and mostly more trouble than it's worth" and then "good/great". Agentic coding and image generation are probably the best examples of this. There's no guarantee that this trend will be seen with virtual assistants, but if it does, we're on the…
Am I the only one who doesn't want a virtual assistant? I just struggle to understand this goal we apparently are all aiming for I want to be an active player in my own life. I want to do things even if there's some friction. All I can imagine is that future from WallE where everything is so easy no one tries or does anything at all
I don't want to ask Siri to book me a restaurant, when the alternative is a quick google search.
Is there something like that but simply a GUI web wrapper around subscriptions and memory layer? I want a web ui. I don't think in terms of these personality types though, my tasks are dynamic. For example, claude can run N agents in one window right now and be accurate about it, so I scope agent by project level.
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did i say he was being unreasonable? i asked him why he's pigeon-holing it. and you, too? don't hackers enjoy a little bit of playful ambiguity in their lives? must it be all serious all the time? sheesh.
If you want to over-analyze people's reactions, sure I'll help: They're pigeon-holing because it can't be both. This isn't a situation where there's real overlap. Ambiguity is a lot more fun when there is substantial overlap, and on top of that ambiguity for the question of "is this useful" is bad ambiguity much more often than it's fun ambiguity.
Really? Do you have a proof of that?
Looking outside the realm of computer software, are you familiar with the concept of satire? "A Modest Proposal" is both funny and deadly serious at the same time. And it's been studied for hundreds of years.
So I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
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Legally, I agree. Morally, I think it's totally wild to care if some totally unrelated real world thing gets named after a twenty+ year old cultural icon of a TV show as an homage. They're attempting to profit off their business. The office thing is a theme.
I can’t imagine having so little empathy that you can’t put yourself in the shoes of the creator of the IP. They didn’t even bother to tweak the characters. It’s not “inspired by” or riffing on a theme, it’s a straight ripoff being used to market some AI product. Do you think anyone who created The Office would want to be associated with AI, something that’s threatening to drive them out of a job? What pisses me off…
Not an programming application.