Just post it to social media to generate the text description for free (multiple humans in parallel work better)

If that sounds fun, you gonna love the story of Joy Milne who can smell the Parkinson's disease.

I can open iphone on my macbook? Wish I had it working on my macbook pro, because I was supposed to be able to do that a long time ago (I'm in EU).

Dont bother. Even when works iPhone mirroring is unreliable and buggy experience, often asks to unlock iPhone again and sync gets broken at random and you have to go over enabling it again even though phone was next to the Mac mini all the time.

One of the worst supported features Apple has shipped. Idea was good though.

Seriously. I mainly want to use iPhone mirroring for when my iPhone isn't sitting right next to me. It then nearly always asks me to unlock my iPhone first before I can use it....

Get list of your inputs mixed with generated ones and ask some model to tell you which ones are yours.

Other than that the approach in general is weak, most people likely generate lots of noise themselves. It's just about that one time you asked about X.

What kind of tools do you have on your mind specifically? My experience is that LLM can create me a decent dev tool that I wouldn't ever bother making so nice myself.

IDEs, graphical debuggers, etc.

It's extremely weird that 40 years after TurboPascal, 30 years after Delphi and VBA, we've only regressed in terms of truly integrated development environments.

Heck, even programming languages have regressed. Python and Javascript are less type safe than Java circa 2005. Even though we have technology needed to make type safe languages much more ergonomic, since then.

On the other hand, LLM will force most languages to either become as masochistic as Rust with restricted clippy, or disappear.

Python is not going to survive once people start figuring out it's much easier to keep LLM agent in check if language actively fights back.

thats an interesting take on python. I think I might agree with you

The Internet has became a big mafia game.

Now do a set of queries and try to deduce by statistics which model are you seeing through Rapidata ;)

I don't know any GUI that beats tmux work portability.

Of course everything depends on exact nature of the work, but personally I would gladly leave text based interfaces behind, it's just that there's nothing better.

I know UNIX since being introduced to it via Xenix in 1992 thereabouts, and never found a use for tmux.

More so, I use the terminal as strictly necessary and nothing more.

I don't want "a terminal", I want a command based interface combined with being able to use the same set of tools/commands on all the files I interact with.

Like, it gets taken for granted, but being able to literally grep my html file, my program source and my readme file, instead of having to open a separate gui program and using its bespoke seach menu feature, is really, really nice.

There are downsides of course, like the way we keep jamming everything into the square hole that is 1980s terminal emulators and character based displays, but frequently this is worth it.

9front does that without emulating a terminal. Grep, cc, awk, walk (no find and magical incantations with -print0 there), functions instead of aliases on rc, better lists () in rc, and so on. And you can launch these command inside your graphical editor such as sam or better, Acme. And even as a pipe to selections.

Ok, I'll bite: how? What's the secret sauce? And can I use it with some random perl program I downloaded that prints horoscopes?

No Perl but there's rc, awk and aux/* helper tools which can do tons of stuff Perl does but without calling tons of CPAN modules. 9front ships an IRC client made with rc, awk and aux/trampoline to connect (and tlsclient for TLS connections).

On horoscopes, there's 9ching and tarico at https://shithub.us =)

I mean, the point here is the standardized input/output system that leta everyone build programs without knowing each other that more or less interoperate.

That's Unix philosophy and 9front perfected it to the extreme. The bundled IRC client it's a shell script with two network helpers, one for plain conns and other one for TLS.

Thankfully Xerox PARC has an answer for that across Smalltalk, Interlisp-D, XDE, and Cedar, and copied to certain extent in modern programming languages, REPL environments and notebooks.

Augmented nowadays with agent environments and tools in IDEs, which can even be voice controlled.

9front/plan9 leaves tmux and the like as toys. The moment you can use system tools, 9p and files on everything (even the text of the editor itself) you wont be back to these unusable teletype emulators, be XTerm clones or terminal multiplexors.

Yeah, I think the company that opens up a bit of the black box and open sources it, making it easy for people to customize it, will win many customers. People will already live within micro-ecosystems before other companies can follow.

Currently everybody is trying to use the same swiss army knife, but some use it for carving wood and some are trying to make some sushi. It seems obvious that it's gonna lead to disappointment for some.

Models are become a commodity and what they build around them seem to be the main part of the product. It needs some API.

I agree that if there was more transparency it might have prevented the token spend concerns, which feels caused by a lack of knowledge about how the models work.

I'd call that cheating but the size and capability is impressive nonetheless.