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Re: Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness

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Post by vintagedave »

gignico wrote: post #9

Off topic, but I sincerely ask: am I the only one that is disturbed by the use of the term "Mac OS X" to refer to modern versions of the OS that is currently called "macOS"? (and not MacOS either) I mean, the name was changed ten years ago...

Looks like the submitter used the wrong term - the actual link uses "macOS".

But to answer the question: Yes! I opened thinking it was going to be some awesome Leopard or Lion app.

I miss the name, mostly because the OS was interesting and fun in those days and boring and dreary and buggy and low contrast and poor UX and squircles and flat colours if it even has colours now.

Re: Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness

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Post by calmingsolitude »

throwaway290 wrote: post #6
danpalmer wrote: post #3

> Our Founder! of this project is battling cancer. Your Stars and Forks are appreciated. I'm sorry to hear this, but I'm also surprised that this is the first thing I learnt about this project, and that it is written in the third person. It detracts from the project.

I don't have a problem with mentioning cancer, but they should've mentioned which cancer to raise awareness and help others. The ribbon icon is gold which means pediatric/childhood cancer? Asking for stars and forks is where it gets weird. I understand a crowdfunding program but how is this going to help? Makes it even weirder that this is a completely anonymous, we don't know who works on it, and actually the projec…

Although not disclosed on this page, the author's name is mentioned on their other projects[0].

> Our founder, Todd Bruss, is currently battling Cancer. Through it all, he continues to pour his heart into InkPen. Your support and encouragement mean the world.

The author has posted about their project on LinkedIn as well[1].

[0] https://inkpen.io/ [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/principal-software-engineer-swif...

Re: Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness

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Post by swiftcoder »

danpalmer wrote: post #3

> Our Founder! of this project is battling cancer. Your Stars and Forks are appreciated. I'm sorry to hear this, but I'm also surprised that this is the first thing I learnt about this project, and that it is written in the third person. It detracts from the project.

Open-source maintainers don't owe anyone perfectly-manicured marketing copy on their landing pages. Honestly, the fact that is the first thing you learn humanises the username behind the keyboard

Re: Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness

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Post by miningape »

mettamage wrote: post #13

So… What is a harness? People have been talking about it and couldn’t glean what it is

A while loop, some prompts basically amounting to "this is how you format a system call" and "make no mistakes", there's also a regex + executor for detecting and executing system calls.

Re: Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness

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Post by throwaway290 »

calmingsolitude wrote: post #12
throwaway290 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't have a problem with mentioning cancer, but they should've mentioned which cancer to raise awareness and help others. The ribbon icon is gold which means pediatric/childhood cancer? Asking for stars and forks is where it gets weird. I understand a crowdfunding program but how is this going to help? Makes it even weirder that this is a completely anonymous, we don't know who works on it, and actually the projec…

Although not disclosed on this page, the author's name is mentioned on their other projects[0]. > Our founder, Todd Bruss, is currently battling Cancer. Through it all, he continues to pour his heart into InkPen. Your support and encouragement mean the world. The author has posted about their project on LinkedIn as well[1]. [0] https://inkpen.io/ [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/principal-software-engineer-swif...

OK, I take it back. What can I say, even knowing he is working on this LLM stuff that's becoming the curse of humanity I still wish him beat cancer.

Re: Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness

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Post by bsaul »

miningape wrote: post #18
mettamage wrote: post #13

So… What is a harness? People have been talking about it and couldn’t glean what it is

A while loop, some prompts basically amounting to "this is how you format a system call" and "make no mistakes", there's also a regex + executor for detecting and executing system calls.

you forgot the memory model. Which is an absolutely essential and hard to design part of the agent.
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