It's all hype and twitter-driven development. BEWARE.

why is it asking me to select a model during setup if it supposedly runs on my machine?

Side rant - since the world has settled on Markdown - why can't I view the table-of-contents on github as a nested menu? This long readme makes it hard to see what all is here.

the thing chews through claude usage like a rabid dog. i've not figured out what model to run it with to keep it cheap but still useful

I really like Clawdbots safety gloves off approach - no handholding or just saying yes to every permission.

I set it up on a old macbook pro I had that had a broken screen and it works great. Now I just message my server using telegram and it does research for me, organizes my notes, and builds small apps on the fly to help with learning.

However security is a real concern. I need to understand how to create a comprehensive set of allowlists before expanding into anything more serious like bill payments or messaging people / etc

Believe it or not clippy the Microsoft helper for word was a huge interest and feature for all of about 2-3 weeks before everyone realized its interactions were just “on top” of actually doing something. Once the cost of clippy, and its failure to actually be helpful sunk in it was relegated to jokes and eventually down the line memes.

It’s hard to actually create something that is a personal assistant. If I want it to keep and eye out for reservations I guarantee it would take a few hours for me to get that setup, more time that it would take to just watch for reservations.

If I wanted it to find out when I needed to register my child for school then do it, I’m 100% sure it would fail and probably in some range from comical to annoying.

This seems less like a personal assistant and more like a “hey bro how ya doing?”. It lacks the ability to inquire and ask questions and deduce.

If I have to prop it up to complete any random task I have, I’ve just got another version of clippy with a lot more computing power.

lol pass. Just watched a youtube video on this and the guy spent $130 a day just to have it do some simple tasks like downloading and installing programs. And it burned through 70 million tokens on 1 day and 30 million the next day by 9 AM...lol. this thing is goofy. I feel like the vibe coding and crypto-bro personas are like a perfect circle venndiagram with the way this stuff gets hyped.

I get that this is cool, but I also feel grateful that my life just isn't busy enough to justify this as a thing beyond "oh wow, that's cool tech".

I'm able to juggle the competing priorities in my life without the need of an AI assistant, and I guess I'm just gonna enjoy that for as long as I can because I assume at some point it will become assumed of me.