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

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> 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

> the fact that is the first thing you learn humanises the username behind the keyboard

The username is macOS26. The name is "Agent!". As in "Agentic AI for your entire Mac Desktop". All commits are made by this entity.

Until someone here told me there is a real guy behind it I sincerely gotta say, it looks like there's no human behind the keyboard and actually there's no keyboard at all.

Combined with cancer message on top it made me think some LLM "agent" is trying different tricks because it was prompted to achieve maximum stars and forks. I feel shitty for saying this but how not to be cynical because literally that's what we degraded to thanks to "ai".

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

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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

> the fact that is the first thing you learn humanises the username behind the keyboard The username is macOS26. The name is "Agent!". As in "Agentic AI for your entire Mac Desktop". All commits are made by this entity. Until someone here told me there is a real guy behind it I sincerely gotta say, it looks like there's no human behind the keyboard and actually there's no keyboard at all. Combined with cancer message…

> Combined with cancer message on top it made me think some LLM "agent" is trying different tricks because it was prompted to achieve maximum stars and forks. I feel shitty for saying this but how not to be cynical because literally that's what we degraded to thanks to "ai".

AI might increase the volume of shitty things on the internet, but it's not like GitHub accounts weren't anonymous before AI, and it's not like people weren't using scammy tactics to boost their star count before AI.

If the fear of AI turn us into worse people in our interactions, that's kind of on us, not AI

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

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post #20

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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.

and occasionally, UI prompts with QA.

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

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Would love to be able to use this with my Claude Max Plan subscription ($100/month)... not going to pay with an API Key which burns through tokens way faster. Might try it for the local Apple Intelligence and accessibility to drive local apps tho.

talk to claude.

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

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Would love to be able to use this with my Claude Max Plan subscription ($100/month)... not going to pay with an API Key which burns through tokens way faster. Might try it for the local Apple Intelligence and accessibility to drive local apps tho.

Anthropic don't allow that unfortunately

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

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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...

It wasn’t even “Mac OS X” ten years ago, but “OS X”. “Mac OS X” was 15 years ago.

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

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Memory model? I would not want agent to remember previous conversations.

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

#29

Would love to be able to use this with my Claude Max Plan subscription ($100/month)... not going to pay with an API Key which burns through tokens way faster. Might try it for the local Apple Intelligence and accessibility to drive local apps tho.

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

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post #28
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Memory model? I would not want agent to remember previous conversations.

Ever? You would not want to accumulate any useful context at all?
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