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Post by ElliotPadfield »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #235
sroerick wrote: post #12

Facebook is the first to market with a polished openclaw? Good for them. I'm sure many others will criticize other aspects of Meta, and rightly so. But imagine using a Claw agent with zero tech support available

"This account needs permission to view this page The account you're signed into doesn't have access to this page. Please log out and follow the steps in your email." there is no logout or instruction whatsoever on email, so zero tech support definitely not true

Also running into this same issue. At first I logged in fine but nothing in the UI would hydrate properly and now just hit with this error.

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Post by kvetching »

scosman wrote: post #313
Grombobulous wrote: post #294

I think the product as shown in this marketing material with these examples falls squarely in the “nobody asked for this” territory of AI. At least with B2B AI there is a problem to be solved: reduce my labor costs and increase my business output. What’s happened here is that consumer technology is already solved, but companies like Meta are trying to jam AI technology into something that solves the non-problems that…

> “nobody asked for this” I absolutely want a general purpose assistant. I absolutely don't trust Facebook with the necessary data.

Yes, they have a bad rep, but according to Zuck, Meta put more work into data security than any other agent like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx8lrn-cytc

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Post by yalok »

Grombobulous wrote: post #294

I think the product as shown in this marketing material with these examples falls squarely in the “nobody asked for this” territory of AI. At least with B2B AI there is a problem to be solved: reduce my labor costs and increase my business output. What’s happened here is that consumer technology is already solved, but companies like Meta are trying to jam AI technology into something that solves the non-problems that…

I'm not sure - it may as well be that regular consumers just don't realize they need this and will greatly benefit from it.

My personal anecdote - we had a complex family travel in the summer, with 6 ppl and 6 separate flights booked (some multi-leg). SAS messed up on one booking - they decided to cancel the flight we had from Oslo, and rebooked us to an earlier date (2 days shift). That wouldn't work for the rest of our schedule, so I had to rebook, overpay extra money for now longer & more expensive flights - but to add the insult to the injury, when I did this through their website, they didn't transfer the food that I paid for the earlier reservation. Calling them in roaming and trying to get it fixed with a human support agent didn't help - the agent said he just can't fix it on his end, and suggested that we just file for reimbursement on their site.

I never had time to file it since July.

But today I had a reason - to test Muse - and asked it to handle it for me. To my surprise, it dug through all of the SAS emails and actually found the emails confirming that the food fees were reimbursed exactly the same date when SAS moved our original flight. Apparently I didn't notice those notifications since they were spamming with all kinds of notifications that day. But, if not some tool like Muse, I wouldn't even find time to handle this and either file a claim or figure out my miss on their earlier reimbursement.

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Post by sho_hn »

mgaunard wrote: post #318
Grombobulous wrote: post #294

I think the product as shown in this marketing material with these examples falls squarely in the “nobody asked for this” territory of AI. At least with B2B AI there is a problem to be solved: reduce my labor costs and increase my business output. What’s happened here is that consumer technology is already solved, but companies like Meta are trying to jam AI technology into something that solves the non-problems that…

I disagree. It matches exactly what I need. Whenever I try to do something with ChatGPT or Gemini, it just refuses to do things citing limitations in its web browsing capabilities. An everyday LLM that can actually fill forms and do stuff for you on the Internet without having to run on your computer, write programs or interact through special harnesses is what normal people actually need. It's a different need from…

I haven't used it (I just do Codex CLI), but isn't "ChatGPT Work" supposed to solve this?

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Post by technion »

redox99 wrote: post #282
tikotus wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a coder and a daily driver of ChatGPT and I don't really know what Sol is or how I can access it. I follow discussions here and know of its excistence, but I can't remember its relation to other models or tiers by heart. What ever the default thing the website is giving me has been good enough for my needs for years.

Do you... code by copy pasting chatgpt web???

This might depend what you mean by code. In the sysadmin space I ask a web interface for poweshell to generate specific information multiple times a day, and pasting it into a terminal is really the cleanest workflow on a corporate machine where you have to justify running an executable.

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Post by cebert »

tikotus wrote: post #287
redox99 wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you... code by copy pasting chatgpt web???

Yes! Though I mainly use it for one-shotting full files, so I'm not copying over small diffs. I did try copilot at some point in vscode, but after a week or so I felt like it was slowing me down. Something I knew would be a simple and quick change was now slow since I didn't have enough ownership of the code to do it quickly myself, and prompting for the change took longer than changing it manually if I had had full…

Using ChatGPT.com for coding tasks has to be a joke in 2026, right? I assumed everyone is using Codex/Claude Code/OpenCode/Pi by now if you’re using these tools.

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Post by birdsink »

kvetching wrote: post #322
scosman wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> “nobody asked for this” I absolutely want a general purpose assistant. I absolutely don't trust Facebook with the necessary data.

Yes, they have a bad rep, but according to Zuck, Meta put more work into data security than any other agent like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx8lrn-cytc

Wow, well if the incorrigible Mark Zuckerberg himself says they say they put more work into data security! /s

After everything meta has pulled over the last few decades, do you actually trust in CEO speeches like that?

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Post by toddmorey »

asdfman123 wrote: post #319
Grombobulous wrote: post #294

I think the product as shown in this marketing material with these examples falls squarely in the “nobody asked for this” territory of AI. At least with B2B AI there is a problem to be solved: reduce my labor costs and increase my business output. What’s happened here is that consumer technology is already solved, but companies like Meta are trying to jam AI technology into something that solves the non-problems that…

No, after seeing how powerful AI is at my job, I definitely want AI to help plan dates, book flights, generate spreadsheets, do all the things. The only problem is, like someone else pointed out, that I don't trust Meta.

How long until "conversations are not shared with Meta's ad systems" quietly disappears from the site?

I almost think they would have done better to launch this as more disconnected sub-brand. I think Meta / Facebook are actual brand baggage for this sort of thing, even outside of tech circles.

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Post by dd8601fn »

nikcub wrote: post #276
abixb wrote: post #234

I think Meta's strategy is to capture the 'normie-tier' of AI users. I know most of us here on HN track model releases quite frequently and discuss every parameter weight out of them, but most of the world is just... oblivious? I was discussing latest in tech with an accounting friend out of curiosity, and I kept talking about tiers of GPT-5.6 (Sol vs Terra vs Luna) and asked which one she used on the desktop 'Work'…

> "just ChatGPT, what is Sol?." i'd really like to see some analytics on what proportion of users have ever switched the model in chatgpt because I anecdotally believe it is < 5%

Honestly I rarely change it in either of them unless I’m using the cli or cowork to do something. That’s where smarter work means less iterative un-fucking, later.

Any quick questions or rubber ducking in a regular “chat”… the model just doesn’t really matter anymore.

They’re all smarter than I need for that stuff (and whatever unfortunate thing that says about me).

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Post by Daz912 »

birdsink wrote: post #327
kvetching wrote: post #322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, they have a bad rep, but according to Zuck, Meta put more work into data security than any other agent like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx8lrn-cytc

Wow, well if the incorrigible Mark Zuckerberg himself says they say they put more work into data security! /s After everything meta has pulled over the last few decades, do you actually trust in CEO speeches like that?

CEO says something bad: "Look at what the CEO said!" CEO says something good: "you cant trust what he said, he's a CEO"

Pick a lane please

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