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Who are these people? I was skeptical at first and seriously thinking surely not the software engineers out there as we see in HN how risky and wild this is. Th

Who are these people? I was skeptical at first and seriously thinking surely not the software engineers out there as we see in HN how risky and wild this is. Then, to my surprise, a coworker came and told me they were running it and happy with that setup. I was baffled, but I work with Gen Z in a pretty niche Gen Alpha market, so I kinda feel like they’re somewhat more likely to go for these things. What’s your experience?

sva_ 8mo ago
> Who are these people? For example, someone working in safety and alignment at Meta: https://nitter.net/FakePsyho/status/2025857836014538818 https://nitter.net/FakePsyho/status/2025857836014538818
- g947o 8mo ago
  That kind of explains why Meta's AI effort has been going so well for the past year.
- hmokiguess 8mo ago
  Mixed feelings here, if she is a researcher then I guess part of her research should be explore this in some level of depth with real stakes. Though this does make it seem like that was not what she was doing there.
ffsm8 8mo ago
If I could use it at my day job, I'd do it within a heartbeat - albeit only with readonly access (with write only on it's own files/output/sandbox) There are so many mails and communications with so many tasks to research via confluence etc But on my private hardware? Idk, I haven't found a use for it...
- hmokiguess 8mo ago
  I'm sure you can already do some kind of scripting + LLMs without necessarily needing this at your work though, no? Email is stored in your device somewhere, you could just get its content sent to your preferred agent, you can use one of the many mobile clients if you rather interact through that kind of UX (like self hosted hapi.run + tailscale for example), and you could setup a cronjob or something like it on your machine to do it based on whatever interval. This is just one way I personally could go about it, YMMV obviously. Is there a specific reason why you will not do something like that for example?

sva_ 8mo ago

> Who are these people? For example, someone working in safety and alignment at Meta: https://nitter.net/FakePsyho/status/2025857836014538818 https://nitter.net/FakePsyho/status/2025857836014538818

g947o 8mo ago
That kind of explains why Meta's AI effort has been going so well for the past year.
hmokiguess 8mo ago
Mixed feelings here, if she is a researcher then I guess part of her research should be explore this in some level of depth with real stakes. Though this does make it seem like that was not what she was doing there.

ffsm8 8mo ago

If I could use it at my day job, I'd do it within a heartbeat - albeit only with readonly access (with write only on it's own files/output/sandbox) There are so many mails and communications with so many tasks to research via confluence etc But on my private hardware? Idk, I haven't found a use for it...

hmokiguess 8mo ago
I'm sure you can already do some kind of scripting + LLMs without necessarily needing this at your work though, no? Email is stored in your device somewhere, you could just get its content sent to your preferred agent, you can use one of the many mobile clients if you rather interact through that kind of UX (like self hosted hapi.run + tailscale for example), and you could setup a cronjob or something like it on your machine to do it based on whatever interval. This is just one way I personally could go about it, YMMV obviously. Is there a specific reason why you will not do something like that for example?