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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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“the most powerful AI agent file-editing tool in the world […] patent-pending”… tl;dr: turn tool calls into more structured loops, give it some fancy name and slop about it https://hic-ai.com/blog/tool-response-engineering Good luck with that

Slop me up Scotty!

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.

HN? I agree!

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.

Not sure what would make you think that.

https://hic-ai.com/papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf seems like an awfully lot of trouble to go through for a joke that isn't even funny.

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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 c…

Pretty sure this website is satire.

> "Pretty sure this website is satire."

Pretty sure they think it's "real", but yeah, nope. Wouldn't touch this with a fifty foot pole.

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