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Posted by kcorbitt 10/23/2024

Show HN: Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine(github.com)
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pavlov 10/23/2024|
Name produces flashbacks to browsing Usenet on Windows 95.
trinix912 10/23/2024|
Or Microsoft Agent, the technology behind MS Office Clippy.
andrewmcwatters 10/23/2024||
I've been wondering for a while now if Selenium could be replaced by a standard browser distribution with LLM multimodal control.

This seems conceptually close.

jdthedisciple 10/23/2024|
LLM doesn't come with headless mode so I'd wager no.
coreyh14444 10/23/2024||
That was fast.
amusingimpala75 10/23/2024|
And by fast we mean 2+ minutes to go to a link and fill in four fields
andrethegiant 10/23/2024||
I think OP was referring to how fast someone built something with Anthropic's new Computer Use product, as it was announced yesterday
anigbrowl 10/23/2024||
This is a botnet waiting to happen.
Rygian 10/23/2024|
Isn't it already?
digitcatphd 10/23/2024||
I did this and it just used my card to book round trip tickets to Yosemite almost immediately
karmajunkie 10/23/2024|
seriously, or is this missing a /s tag?
GaggiX 10/23/2024|||
He's joking, in the report of Claude Computer Use it was reported that Claude stopped doing a task and started searching images of the Yellowstone National Park.
Uehreka 10/23/2024|||
Don’t encourage the /s, I only see people use /s when they’re writing something that isn’t funny enough to read as a joke or are doing sarcasm badly.

Sometimes people make a joke that not everyone is going to get. That’s fine. But if you add the /s, it ruins the joke for the people who did get it.

scubbo 10/23/2024|||
Your judgement of entertainment is not more important than clarity of communication.
Uehreka 10/23/2024||
If you want to be sure you’re clearly understood, don’t use sarcasm (it’s a massively overrated and really cheap form of humor anyway). If you want to be funny, take the risk that you’ll be misunderstood. My problem is with people who want it both ways.
scubbo 10/23/2024||
> My problem is with people who want it both ways.

Why? Why would you dislike a solution which neatly solves a false dilemma?

You may subjectively believe that sarcasm is over-used (and in fact I personally agree with you), but why are you put-out that people who like it have found a way to encode the non-verbal cues of speech into text to increase fidelity in communication?

EDIT: the problem _specifically_ with sarcasm and clarity is that it appears to say the opposite of what it actually says. You say in an earlier comment that "Sometimes people make a joke that not everyone is going to get. That’s fine." - but that is in fact _not_ fine when the possible outcome is someone believing that you hold a view entirely opposed to what you actually do. I hope I don't need to paint you a picture.

Uehreka 10/24/2024||
> Why would you dislike a solution which neatly solves a false dilemma?

What dilemma? I’ve been diagnosed with autism/asperger syndrome since the age of six, and even I can see when people are being sarcastic without needing an explicit signal.

I dislike the “solution” because it ruins the joke. The whole point of sarcasm is to communicate a common gripe with other people without saying it out loud. If you’re not sure if the audience of your comment shares your common gripe (or if they don’t know you well enough to know what kinds of things you’d never say seriously) then that’s a bad time to use sarcasm.

tgv 10/23/2024|||
It's also a lazy convention for lazy replies, the sort HN discourages. As you say, it's doing sarcasm, but badly: the writer can blurt out the first quip that comes to mind, regardless of it being related, and hides behind the prestige that sarcasm has, while often only virtue signalling.
edub 10/25/2024||
Using LLM to control your machine has amazing potential for accessibility.
computeruseYES 10/23/2024||
Make it run out of the box with double click

Make it allow any model selection with openrouter api keys

Charge money?

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 10/23/2024||
No disclaimer hmm? Anthropic made it sound very scary.

https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-quickstarts/tree/mai...

dmezzetti 10/23/2024||
Why???
davedx 10/23/2024|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box
alicelebi 10/23/2024|
"Skynet" arises.
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