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Ah damn it, we invented Jira
Jira from first principles Almost sounds like an Orielly book
Matthew B. Doar (2011). Practical JIRA Plugins. O’Reilly.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/practical-jira-plugins/...
In case anyone was wondering. Which they probably weren’t :p
Vision has a long way to go. I remember trying an early version of AWS's Nova Act and laughed at how slow it was. And a few months later it hadn't really seemed to improve that much. Recently, I asked Claude to log into my local grocery store chain's website and add all of the items from my shopping list to a cart. It was hilariously slow, but it did get the job done. Unless I missed it, the article doesn't explictly…
Thinking of Frigate NVR that does motion > object detection > scene description
Where you build up to progressively slower and more expensive algorithms i.e. there's motion > it's a person > here's what the person is doing
I'm always skeptical of the whole "computer use" concept. It's like hiring someone and inviting him to your house and telling him to go ahead, feel free to sleep on the bed, use the toilet, eat whatever is in the fridge, watch the TV, and oh here are the combinations for the safe... and that someone you hire is a monkey.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Are we really having an AI fart around with a mouse and clicking on things to accomplish stuff because we're not capable of making one kind of software query and command another piece of software? It kind of boggles my mind.
And structured APIs are about 1e9x more expensive than not invoking an LLM in the first place compared to using deterministic code to do something ... it's not like any of this is rational based on compute.
Great guidance hidden in here for making it expensive for agents to navigate your website. Move elements on screen as the mouse moves, force natural mouse movement to make the UI work, change the button labels in the JS to be randomly named every visit, force scrolling to the bottom of the screen to check for hidden extra tasks... Hang on, that sounds like common corporate SaaS apps.
It's really weird, I'm seeing across the board that people who never believed in them before are suddenly all into good software eng practices (starting with writing a spec) because of AI. It's kind of fascinating that we never were willing to do these things for humans but now that AI needs it ... we are all in. A bit depressing in the sense that I think mostly the reason we happy to do it for AI is that we perceive…
I'm always skeptical of the whole "computer use" concept. It's like hiring someone and inviting him to your house and telling him to go ahead, feel free to sleep on the bed, use the toilet, eat whatever is in the fridge, watch the TV, and oh here are the combinations for the safe... and that someone you hire is a monkey.
But think of how comfortable and productive the monkey will feel. It might not be that hard to just build temp housing for it while you have monkey business to do.
> build temp housing for it
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Jira from first principles Almost sounds like an Orielly book
The O’Reilly animal for Jira is apparently some kind of duck or goose. Matthew B. Doar (2011). Practical JIRA Plugins . O’Reilly. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/practical-jira-plugins/... In case anyone was wondering. Which they probably weren’t :p
It doesn't matter. Electron uses 10x more RAM than regular apps. But it's so convenient. Python is 100x slower than C. It's in the top 3 of languages now. Worse but more convenient always wins.
In an agentic world, the OS needs to be completely rethought. For example, every single app functionality should be exposable via an API while remaining human friendly. I think OpenAI designing their own phone is the next logical step. I hope they succeed which should bring major competition to Apple and Android.
We used to have this. It was called OLE Automation.
i'm really not sure companies will allow their apps to be automated so easily, and the reason is api abuse (think of a saas where you can upload file attachments for example); you'd either end up banned or throttled pretty fast, and in the end the company will be like "cost > opportunity" and just close it off (and its like this already, llms just make this worse)