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It sounds kind of anachronistic, although I think there might be some markets for that outside of this bubble. If you're looking for critique, I think your landing page is extremely noisy for such a simple idea. You'd probably get better traction with a more focused design.


That is very helpful feedback. I will optimise that in a couple of hours.

> It sounds kind of anachronistic,

Hmmmm interesting. I thought this was the perfect time for this, but you may be right based on the attention I have received for the product or maybe it's because of my noisy landing page.


TBH I mostly use LinkedIn for this kind of thing. I do have a resume for the odd occasion I need it but LI mostly suffices. It's hard for me to know whether it would gain traction outside of my demographic, and so I can only speak narrowly.


Agreed, all my network participants said the same thing: they prefer LinkedIn.

Their only reason for supporting something like this was that they bought a domain they liked, and now to have something on those domains without the stress of managing hosting and coding, they would use that, since their domain are sitting idle in their registrar.


I honestly used to be a skeptic on AI, at least for how it was being marketed, until agentic workflows became available. I've been in this biz for about 25 years now and have seen a lot of fads come and go, but framed correctly, this one has legs. If you're using it as a foundational part of your development budget I have bad news for you. But if you're using it as a handy assistant that you can guide to do things in minutes that would take you hours it's a force multiplier.

One interesting thought I had about it after I used Claude Code to generate a lot of documentation for a new codebase I was being bootstrapped into was that it's kind of a hedge against the loss of mental acuity that is natural with aging. I, and friends of mine, have admitted that you kind of get less quick/sharp with age. The tradeoff here is wisdom. But with a tool like this I'm able to move much more quickly than before.


Thank you for sharing. I'm looking forward to getting voice mode, but after doing some searching I saw that it still needed the user to hit the "send" button after they are done talking. Did I misread, or was your experience that it would reply to you after you finished talking without the need to press anything?


When you’re done talking, you tap anywhere on the screen to indicate that you’re finished talking, and Claude replies a second or two later. If you are silent for several seconds, it goes ahead and replies without waiting for you to tap. When Claude is talking you can tap on the screen to interrupt; that is actually quite useful, as it can be a bit long-winded.

It’s not quite as natural a back-and-forth as with ChatGPT’s or Gemini’s voice mode on mobile, but maybe that’s for the best.

I tried a test later in which I gave it a research paper—Sakana AI’s latest—and asked it to explain it to me. When it used a term I didn’t understand, I just tapped on the screen and asked for an explanation. That worked quite well.


Thanks a lot. This sounds great for my envisioned use case which is having conversations while on a road trip to research ideas that pop into my head. Not having to tap the screen makes it much safer.


I finally got access to it -- much better experience than I had expected. I really like being able to choose the voice/cadence. I wasn't able to get it to auto-send after a few seconds, but that might have been due to being in a noisy environment.


I materialize my thoughts as I obsess over the problem in my notes. I find that doing this often helps me reframe the problem and the facts that I currently know, which helps me discard branches that will be fruitless.


I'm going to check this out when I get a chance -- it would be rad if your webpage had an animated gif or video showing it working, too.


I'm a Collin with two l's. Not as uncommon as Gregg but it's never been a burden. I also don't bother correcting people unless it's happening a lot with the same person and someone I expect to interact with a lot.


I gave it a shot a couple years ago -- pretty slick. But the latency was noticeable compared to tmux, which I remain using today. I admit that I'm kind of sensitive to it, as at the time I was already on a latent connection.


I personally haven't noticed that, but we all have different sensitivity levels to such things. Have you tried it more recently? A couple years ago is ancient in its lifespan. I'd be curious to see if it still feels sluggish to you.

(Not a dev, just another end user.)


No, haven't tried recently, but will make a note to do so. Agree that a couple of years is an eternity :)


Right on. I'd love to hear back about that.

It could also be in my case that I use it so little that some latency is tolerable. I don't develop interactively in zellij or tmux. I mainly keep some logs tailing, and DB consoles open, etc, and I don't check them super often.


To get an OK I had to force curl to use http 0.9

> curl -v --http0.9 susam.net:8000



So the core insight was that we can take over the Factorio console remotely using RCON over TCP. From this, we implemented a server-side library of tools that run inside the game. We then implemented a client-side Python library that can invoke these tools - resulting in a Python API for the game. A nice side effect is that creating new tools is really easy, and they can be hot-loaded into running game servers (unlike the traditional Factorio modding approach).


this is cool! How could one extend that to a broader set of games? E.g another one where you can run larger simulations on behaviour are procedural games like No Man's Sky


This specific approach relied on: a) availability of multiplayer servers, and b) a remotely accessible console.

I know Minecraft works in the same way - but I’m not sure about RPGs like NMS.


its just for this game - prev I have seen python bots extended to GTA V or Counter Strike or other games. So was wondering if broader set of tools are available?


For those that don't know, including myself, why would this question be particularly difficult for an LLM?


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You are a bit behind. All the "deep research" tools, and paid AI search tools in general, combine LLMs with search. When I do research on you.com it routinely searches a 100 sites. Even Google searches get Gemini'd now. I had to chuckle because your very link provides a demonstration.


> You are a bit behind.

Quite the opposite. I'm familiar enough with these systems to know that asking the question "List the college majors of all Fortune 100 CEOs" is not going to get you a correct answer, Gemini and you.com included. I am happy to be proven wrong. :)


But the whole point of these “deep research” models is to.. you know.. do research.

LLMs by themselves have not been good at this, but the whole point is to find a way to make them good.


If you know more than others, it would be great to share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn. Comments that only declare how much you know, without sharing any of it, are less useful, and ultimately off-topic.

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OpenAI and Gemini literally produce the correct results.

It seems like you don't understand or haven't tried their deep research tools.


Perplexity markets itself as a search tool. So even if LLMs are not search engines, Perplexity definitely is trying to be one.


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