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I’d say the part of the unit test that is helpful is the example of using the code.

It has a pro over documented examples in that they are _guaranteed_ to be correct.


I really like how easy it is to run using bunx, pnpx, npx, etc.

But does anyone have thoughts on the security aspect. Getting people used to just running code like this that has full access to the system is slightly concerning.

On the other hand it’s no different than installing npm packages


> anyone have thoughts on the security aspect

Yes, you need to run these agents in a sandboxed environment when running full AFK [1] yolo. That could be a Docker container or it could be remote developer environment.

[1] https://ghuntley.com/ralph


They are talking about the fact that you can run this npm tool without installing it - not running code agents


Ah, that's the least of their issues!


Maybe this kind of thing would be better written in Deno?

Deno has mechanisms for allow-listing the exact files the process can access - in this case you would want to give it read-only access to the log files in the ~/.claude directory and nothing else.


Who is going to spend time watching those episodes if content is so easy to make? Everyone will be busy watching their own generated content.


AI is going to watching those. AI watches much faster than humans.


Because few are great storytellers, people like celebrities, and having a shared cultural reference point.

Even TikTok's main fuel are likes and shares. Isolated material will just cease to be interesting, because it's from your own imagination.


There is a (dystopian) world where AI is so good at making movies or series so well tailored to a person so cheaply that there will be no more shared culture.

It’s reaching, of course, but imo the best shows are those that have small, dedicated, fanbase. If it’s small it means that the show has enough personality to drive other people away.

And that’s fine. Popular stuff is popular mainly because of lack of controverse.


On the one hand you say it's dystopian, but you also seem to be celebrating it? ;P Maybe a show with a fanbase of 1 is in fact the best show in the entire world ;P. Regardless: I don't think you end up with no shared culture at all, because if something happens to me that normally would only happen to just me I still tell my friends about it, and maybe they want to experience the same unique thing I saw, and the same will be (and already is, fwiw) true of AI generated slop.


The future is something like the TikTok algorithm, but generated on the fly.

As you scroll, it learns what you like and generates more videos.


With enough context fed into the model of what you react to, the content will be so mesmerizing that you won't be able to look away

This is chilling and also seems inevitable long term


The only winning move is not to play. Just don't use stupid apps. Problem solved.


I imagine there are some boundary constraints - mobile video can only be so compelling. I would guess we're already pretty close to that threshold.


It would be something like breaking bad but cut intentionally to you specific responses. A drama you can't look away from.

It will be like wirehacking, but in visual form.


It's more depressing if it DIDN'T happen soon. The technology should be here, years ago.


I think this is an unfortunate misunderstanding of why people like and use social media.

ChatGPT can already generate endless "comments". And yet you're here.


I agree with you, but the owners and customers of ad-supported communities like Facebook have an incentive to inject clickbait from fake users posing as humans. Facebook is already well along that road, with a captive if aging userbase. Maybe they'd flee if they had an alternative.


Most people on social media don't interact, just consume. You are talking to small self selected minority

If there was an HN clone generated on the fly for you or the guy you replied to then what's the difference? Especially if you imagine you didn't know it was generated. That's the problem with this tech, for you there's no difference. But probably a difference for society.


You must have missed a train or two over the past fifteen years, so called “social media” have very little to do with the social part they used to, they are mostly algorithmically driven dopamine shots to capture user's attention, and TikTok is the purest form of it.


HN users that actively engage with comments are probably 0.0001% of overall social media users


No one knows if you're a bot or a human.


> And yet you're here.

Some people are talking to ChatGPT though. We are here, for now.


Some people are stimulating themselves with opioids too. Outside the Hacker News bubble, which statistically has elevated incentives to push "the future is AI", the consensus I've seen is revulsion towards fully algorithmically generated content streams.

This is like seeing Frito-Lay's stock price rise, and concluding that restaurants are doomed in the future. There's about the same amount of equivalence.


That's the near future. Look farther down the line and it's netflix. Keep scrolling and it generates entire movies and shows based on what you like.

Probably before that though we'll see AI movies pre-generated before we see them generated on the fly during scrolling.


I don't doubt that we will be able to make a content machine. Honestly, we had that on tiktok before generative AI. But I feel like this kind of misses the point of art. The idea of art for me is on some level experiencing someone else's intention and connecting with others based on that. Generative models have no intention or experience so I am uninterested in what they have to say even if it is technically well executed.


I think it will also try to influence what you like to maximize engagement unfortunately...


There's a cliff though.

It will happen for different people at different times, but at some point the realization that you are looking at people who don't exist living lives that aren't possible to sell you products that won't help you will click for you, and when it does it will cut you off from society in a way we don't currently have words for.


> you are looking at people who don't exist living lives that aren't possible to sell you products that won't help you

That's a description of most TV commercials.


Are you sure about that? In the Matrix Cypher wants to return into the matrix knowing fully well that it is fake, and backstabs his friends to accomplish it. I suspect we may see it play out similarly irl. Fiction tends to be pretty good at commenting on human nature.


There's a trope of humans who don't fit in to the world.

My comment is more that more and more people will find themselves as that person unexpectedly as they are driven out by the popularity of people that do not exist.

Sure, some people may love the idea of being the only real person in a sea of fakes, but those people are true freaks and not worth discussing except out of pity.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LonersAreFreaks


There is a moment where people might be so engaged it might not be profitable anymore though.

Brands pay for ads because it generate sales. If people become vegetables that doomscroll all day, barely pausing to eat and have a dump, they will also stop purchasing stuff.

Or maybe people will be so addicted that social medias as a drug becomes a commercial product in its own riggt and tiktok can paywall it.


Later on a "live mode" which is realtime generated content, guided by your voice. Netflix could also have this as a feature.


The thing is that people don’t know or won’t say what they like.

The TikTok algorithm is good at figuring out what you do. Not what you say. So the content will be a lot more engaging.


"If I had asked people what they want, they would have said 'faster horses'"

- Henry Ford


"Faster Horses", the first show entirely made by AI, will premiere in January


Agreed, the TikTok one will be vastly more popular, as it requires no creative input. Also much more near-term. Some version could be shipped within months.

It's already partially that, just with humans still supplying the prompts and doing some cherrypicking before posting their AI-generated videos. I wonder if there will be some "for you (AI)" and "for you (non-AI)", and which one will end up being the default?


Will it learn that I don’t like ads?


It will figure out how to make ads that you do watch. If a generated video is good enough, people will watch it even though it’s an ad.


I remain skeptical that there is enough overlap between videos I’d want to watch and videos that make me buy stuff. Conceivably there could be ads I’d want to watch even though they don’t work on me. A subscription model seems more likely in my case, though.


The ads will be subliminal so you won't even know that you're watching an ad.


I didn’t say I would be aware of it.


That's the secret - everything will be an ad


Everything is ad nowadays. They have already been embedded in every single "content creation crap", movie, tv shows, music videos.


It might MAKE you like ads..


Home Assistant is working on one

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/


I’m working on a generic way of getting human input within any automated workflow.

The forms can be dynamically generated within the workflow, and then call back with the response.

The docs still need some work and I plan on adding some video demos, but here it is so far.

https://humaninput.app


I have the same issue. I have too many ideas with very limited amount of time to work on them. When I meet people, I want to share my ideas and get feedback about what they would find interesting, use, pay for, etc.

I'm building a platform to do this, so I can share my ideas.

My page is at https://ideas.moshegrunwald.com


I’m building something like this. It’s not yet available publicly, but you can see my personal page at https://ideas.moshegrunwald.com

You can see more details about this specific idea [here](https://ideas.moshegrunwald.com/ideas/i_mos2)


This is so cool! I love the upvote function :)

Could you put it at /ideas on your website so it appears on aboutideasnow.com?


It's currently available as a subdomain of my personal site, since I have not yet finalized the domain for this project. However, each user's page will be at a path of the primary domain (e.g. example.com/moshe). `/ideas` is not supported at a sub-path (e.g. example.com/moshe/ideas).

I will be supporting custom domains, so I could support `/ideas` only for those sites.

Other options include redirecting/rewriting your personal `/ideas` path to this product. Or, offering subdomains (e.g. moshe.example.com/ideas)


Mhh, I would love aboutideasnow.com to be interoperable with your project. Seems like you have more things planned!

The redirect option seems good, or supporting subpaths. If there's something I can do to help please write me an email [0] or open a GitHub issue! [1]

We just want more people to write about their ideas, and find others with similar ideas. It doesn't matter to me where that happens :)

[0] See https://lindylearn.io

[1] https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/issues


I’m in the same boat as you. As far as I can tell the only option is something like Sensibo, which uses IR.

I would love to know if there is a better way to do this.


I’ve always wanted a tool to help me track my online orders. However, it wasn’t practical to make integrations with every merchant. Even scraping the order emails was way too much work to do for an unproven product.

Now with LLMs it’s simple to extract structured data from emails.

I built [Orderling](https://orderl.ing) that is basically a CRM for your orders. It uses OpenAI api to extract the order information and automatically adds it.


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