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Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by thomaspaulmann »

lorenzoguerra wrote: post #3

I cannot bring myself to trust unreviewed software enough to install it on my own machine with arbitrary permissions. I understand the push for AI-generated websites, because the code running in my browser's sandbox is gonna have very limited permissions to do anything evil, but desktop apps are a completely different story

I feel you! We thought about this and all apps will have a permission model. So you can limit it to specific file disk locations, domains for network requests, and so on.

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by giraffe_lady »

sporksmith wrote: post #27

I thought this must be a joke at first. "Glaze" is in pretty heavy use as recent slang for "when someone excessively praises another person in a way that feels over-the-top." https://creativesimiles.com/glaze-meaning-slang/ ie the annoying way that LLMs interact with users

Maybe a quietly dissenting PM snuck it by. If so, nice.

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by jFriedensreich »

Just what absolutely no one needed: another locked down and non web platform with horrific security that tries to digitally enslave people just the tiniest level above what they can accept now. I don’t see any future where raycast can survive and i would say its a good thing.

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by hombre_fatal »

_pdp_ wrote: post #40

How many apps do you really need that are not already done - perhaps even better?

I've vibe coded all sorts of apps for my macbook.

A better replacement to iStat Menus.

A local-only voice to text whisper.cpp transcriber I can globally use while holding ctrl-semicolon.

A menubar app that manages blocky and can easily turn it off or change dns.

A tool like hammerspoon but I configure it via nix-darwin and it has no cruft.

All of these are apps that use 30MB memory and are better than the apps they replace, and I can make changes any time I want. That's far better than using someone else's software and giving it privileged access to my machine.

Also, perhaps the best point is that so much software is junk that is obsoleted by someone with better UX intuitions even if they are vibe-coding it. Being written by hand by an engineer means basically nothing when it comes to "is this a good app?" Which is why product-minded people are the biggest winners in the new AI era.

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by titanomachy »

sporksmith wrote: post #27

I thought this must be a joke at first. "Glaze" is in pretty heavy use as recent slang for "when someone excessively praises another person in a way that feels over-the-top." https://creativesimiles.com/glaze-meaning-slang/ ie the annoying way that LLMs interact with users

"Heavy use" to the point where it might even be more common than the older senses of "cover with icing" or "install windows".

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by ultropolis »

sporksmith wrote: post #27

I thought this must be a joke at first. "Glaze" is in pretty heavy use as recent slang for "when someone excessively praises another person in a way that feels over-the-top." https://creativesimiles.com/glaze-meaning-slang/ ie the annoying way that LLMs interact with users

It's so much worse. Your link fails to mention that the "Glaze" in question is a cough bodily fluid. Yes that one. Have I seen politicians use "glaze" recently? Yes. Gross.

On the other hand it is kind of the perfect name for Yet Another AI Website Maker (YAAWM?).

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by kneel25 »

So it looks like they’re creating their own App Store within the app? At least it’s kept separate from official apps. But also how is that not a security nightmare Apple won’t allow?
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