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Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents

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Re: Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents

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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 can fence off a slice of the ancient commons, claim they discovered it, and charge $15/month to access it that I want nothing to do with them and will go to the mattresses to make sure they can't. Nobody owns text editing, not even when it's an AI doing it.

Mouse: sincerely, fuck you

Re: Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents

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I doubt they're the first solution to use coordinate based editing, or even the best one right now.

Eg: Check out hash-anchored editing. The first place where I recall seeing this was the oh-my-pi coding agent, but I wouldn't be surprised if the idea originated earlier/elsewhere.

I wonder whether CRDTs could be a good solution for multiple agents editing the same codebase in parallel.

Re: Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents

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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…

Pretty sure this website is satire.
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