| ▲ | mccoyb 5 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Something something medical researcher reinvents calculus. In 2026: frontend web developer reinvents tmux. Guys, please do us the service of pre-filtering your crack token dreams by investigating the tool stack which is already available in the terminal ... or at least give us the courtesy of explaining why your vibecoded Greenspun's 10th something is a significant leg up on what already exists, and perhaps has existed for many years, (and is therefore, in the training set, and is therefore, probably going to work perfectly out of the box). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | dcre 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Right, agents can just use tmux send-keys. Here's a skill I wrote to have Claude debug plugin code in the Helix editor's experimental plugin system. As usual, the skill is barely necessary, it just saves it some time getting the commands right and tells it where some useful reference material is. https://github.com/david-crespo/dotfiles/blob/main/claude/sk... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | cossatot 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maybe, just maybe, this is of obvious utility to the many people who have needs that are not yours? I very regularly need to interact with my work through a python interpreter. My work is scientific programming. So the variables might be arrays with millions of elements. In order to debug, optimize, verify, or improve in any way my work, I cannot rely on any other methods than interacting with the code as it's being run, or while everything is still in memory. So if I want to really leverage LLMs, especially to allow them to work semi-autonomously, they must be able to do the same. I'm not going to dump tens of GB of stuff to a log file or send it around via pipes or whatever. Why is there a nan in an array that is the product of many earlier steps in a code that took an hour to run? Why are certain data in a 200k-variable system of equations much harder to fit than others, and which equations are in tension with each other to prevent better convergence? Are interpreters and pdb not great, previously-existing tools for this kind of work? Does a new tool that lets LLMs/agents use them actually represent some sort of hack job because better solutions have existed for years? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | nitwit005 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The problem is, they'll find there is typically already a good solution to their problem, and then they'll have nothing to write about. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | reincarnate0x14 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I sincerely think the chatbot phenomena is giving people the perspective that whatever hallucinatory conversation they're having is profound because it's the first time they personally have thought about it. On one hand this is normal in education and pedagogy to have the student or apprentice put the boring pieces together to find the wonder of the puzzle itself, but on the other this is how we end up with https://xkcd.com/927/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | dcchuck 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I agree. We skipped CLIs and went all the way to TUIs because TUIs are "easy to make now"? Or maybe because claude/codex? But in practice you are padding token counts of agents reading streams of TUIs instead of leveraging standard unix pipes that have been around from day 1. TLDR - your agent wants a CLI anyway. Disclaimer: still a cool project and thank you to the author for sharing. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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