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>You can define a communication protocol between agents that fails when the communicating agent has been prompt injected Good luck with that.
Yeah, how exactly would that work?
One safety pattern I’m baking into CLI tools meant for agents: anytime an agent could do something very bad, like email blast too many people, CLI tools now require a one-time password The tool tells the agent to ask the user for it, and the agent cannot proceed without it. The instructions from the tool show an all caps message explaining the risk and telling the agent that they must prompt the user for the OTP I ha…
Now we do computing like we play Sim City: sketching fuzzy plans and hoping those little creatures behave the way we thought they might. All the beauty and guarantees offered by a system obeying strict and predictable rules goes down the drain, because life's so boring, apparently.
I still have a native install of Sim City 2000 — which I've played since purchasing decades ago. My most recent cityscape only used low-density zoning, which is a handicap that leads to bucolic scenery and constant cashflow issues.
It's fuzzier sketching, more aimless fun as I've gotten older.
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That's right. And don't forget that the chips it runs on are manufactured by companies I might not agree with. Nor the mining companies that got the metal. Nor the energy company that powers it. The wonderful thing about markets that work is that you can swap things out without being under their boot. I worry about a LLM duopology. But as long as open weight models are nipping at their heels, it is the consumer that…
> And don't forget that the chips it runs on are manufactured by companies I might not agree with. Nor the mining companies that got the metal. Nor the energy company that powers it. You see that this is a non sequitur right? No matter who makes the chips or mines the metal or supplies the power, the behavior of the thing won't be affected. That isn't the case when we're talking about who's training the LLM that's ru…
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This is the future we need to make happen. I would love to subscribe to / pay for service that are just APIs. Then have my agent organize them how I want. Imagine youtube, gmail, hacker news, chase bank, whatsapp, the electric company all being just apis. You can interact how you want. The agent can display the content the way you choose. Incumbent companies will fight tooth and nail to avoid this future. Because it'…
Biggest question I have is maybe... just maybe... LLM's would have had sufficient intelligence to handle micropayments. Maybe we might not have gone down the mass advertising "you are the product" path? Like, somehow I could tell my agent that I have a $20 a month budget for entertainment and a $50 a month budget for news, and it would just figure out how to negotiate with the nytimes and netflix and spotify (or what…
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Yet the Claw is powered by an LLM provider whose underlying model may not align with your priorities? Do I understand that correctly?
That's right. And don't forget that the chips it runs on are manufactured by companies I might not agree with. Nor the mining companies that got the metal. Nor the energy company that powers it. The wonderful thing about markets that work is that you can swap things out without being under their boot. I worry about a LLM duopology. But as long as open weight models are nipping at their heels, it is the consumer that…
I want personal nuclear weapons, so the market hasn't been working for me. Time to roll back those pesky laws, regulations, and ethical boundaries. Prosecute executives who won't give me what I want.
So what is a "claw" exactly? An ai that you let loose on your email etc? And we run it in a container and use a local llm for "safety" but it has access to all our data and the web?
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I think this is absolute madness. I disabled most of Windows' scheduled tasks because I don't want automation messing up my system, and now I'm supposed to let LLM agents go wild on my data? That's just insane. Insanity. Edit: I mean, it's hard to believe that people who consider themselves as being tech savvy (as I assume most HN users do, I mean it's "Hacker" news) are fine with that sort of thing. What is a person…
Bath salts. Ever seen an alpha-PVP user with eyes out of their orbits, sitting through the night in front of basically a random string generator, sending you snippets of its output and firehosing with monologues about how they're right at the verge of discovering an epically groundbreaking correlation in it? That is what's happening to nerds right now. Some next-level mind-boggling psychosis-inducing shit has to do w…
So what is a "claw" exactly? An ai that you let loose on your email etc? And we run it in a container and use a local llm for "safety" but it has access to all our data and the web?
It's a new, dangerous and wildly popular shape of what I've in the past called a "personal digital assistant" - usually while writing about how hard it is to secure them from prompt injection attacks. The term is in the process of being defined right now, but I think the key characteristics may be: - Used by an individual. People have their own Claw (or Claws). - Has access to a terminal that lets it write code and r…
- no graphics subsystem makes things harder
- VPS IP subnets are often blocked by default by numerous websites and WAFs
- can't easily see what it's doing
Running it on its own PC is definitely the golden path for the way it's architected.
Does one really need to _buy_ a completely new desktop hardware (ie. mac mini) to _run_ a simple request/response program? Excluding the fact that you can run LLMs via ollama or similar directly on the device, but that will not have a very good token/s speed as far as I can guess...
What other device would you suggest as a home server that a non tech person can set up themselves and has enough power to run several Chrome tabs? Access to iMessage is a plus. Small beeline Windows devices could also work but it’s Windows 11, slow as molasses.
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It's a new, dangerous and wildly popular shape of what I've in the past called a "personal digital assistant" - usually while writing about how hard it is to secure them from prompt injection attacks. The term is in the process of being defined right now, but I think the key characteristics may be: - Used by an individual. People have their own Claw (or Claws). - Has access to a terminal that lets it write code and r…
Any suggestions for a specific claw to run? I tried OpenClaw in Docker (with the help of your blog post, thanks) but found it way too wasteful on tokens/expensive. Apparently there's a ton of tweaks to reduce spent by doing things like offloading heartbeat to a local Ollama model, but was looking for something more... put together/already thought through.
I fear this is intrinsic to its architecture. Even if you use smaller models for regular operational tasks (checking heartbeat), you'll inevitably need to promote back to bigger models to do anything useful, and the whole idea of openclaw is that it can do many useful things for you, autonomously. I think that means it's going to burn a lot of tokens if you're using it as intended.
This is presumably also why the default model mode is to try and oauth its way into coding agent harnesses instead of using lab API's?