I need a version of this which swears loudly when an assumption it made turns out to be wrong, with the volume/passion/verbosity correlated with how many tokens it's burned on the incorrect approach.

i didnt realize i needed the volume scaling with tokens burned as much as i do now xD imagine the screaming when it confidently refactors something for 40k tokens and then finds out the thing it deleted was load bearing

This was actually the original idea of the project, but I only had about 20 seconds to type the prompt for this today so this is where it is :)

Honestly think we probably underutilise sound sometimes.

Even just having a hum while an agent is working could alert you when it get stuck.

Or taking your idea further being able to listen to the rate of tokens, or code changes, or thinking.

Sort of like hearing the machinery work, and hearing the differences in different parts of the code base.

Does python sound different than rust or c++ or typescript.

Or some kind of satisfying sounds for code deletions and others for additions. Like Tetris.

A long, long time ago I wrote a tool to beep at various tones as lines were added to a log. It was a background noise I would not notice, except when it was changing because of some unusual activites.

It was very interesting to see the brain filering expected soinds and wake me up (or rather grab my attention) when unexpected ones appeared.

I have in my agents file “Chesterton’s fence” as pointer to think carefully before you remove something

I have general reviewer named Feynman with his personality that shits on anything other agents do and sends it back before it hits me and it sounds perfect to include some sound bites from YouTube clips. Great idea!!

Like the old HDD sounds.

Audible feedback is nice. You often get it through coil whine nowadays, on my cheap hardware at least.

I want a version that I can punish.

brooooo - your wish is granted - go whip your claude lmao https://github.com/GitFrog1111/OpenWhip

That or having it start shit posting about your crappy code base on https://moltshit.com

Playdate games! Super constrained/lo-fi/retro and really a joy to program without AI.

Hyper Vector is dropping on Catalog next week!

I had the UK Age verification popup today. It verified immediately based on the age of my Apple account, I didn't have to take any further action. I am much younger than the OP, and probably than their Apple account. I am surprised that this didn't happen for them.

The OP states they've migrated. That might mean that the field on their account database entry might be related to that move. The account is older, but when moving countries I've had to do weird dances to get my Google accounts to accept the new locale, and wouldn't be surprised if their computed account age coincides with me having done that change.

It's like the mastered Factorio and applied it to real life.

Brit here: It is very uncommon.

This is an interesting development. I would predict some of the biggest losers in the AI boom will be Indian (and similar) outsourcing companies. Companies like Wipro and Infosys have thrived off richer countries' businesses wanting grunt work done cheap, not caring necessarily about quality, as long as it meets some baseline functionality. LLMs are very good at this.

In addition, support volume must be taking a hit from AI agents too. When pricing stabilises, will Indian outsourcing still be competitive? Maybe. Maybe less so. If I were working for Infosys right now I'd be a more than a little worried.

Perhaps Anthropic anticipates a glut of engineers in the near future.

It will go to zero, with waves of mass layoffs until AGI has been achieved.

I genuinely can't tell if this is satire or not.

2010 OG account. He's been holding in this opinion for over a decade, waiting for his moment.

Americans always think a British accent is exactly one accent.

Americans think a British accent is either "posh snob" or "chimney sweep."

Meanwhile the rest of the world thinks an American accent is either "Travis Bickle" or "Yosemite Sam."

I live in London part of the year.

Me too. I first assumced it was an OCR error, then remembered they were emails and wouldn't need to go through OCR. Then I thought that the US Government is exactly the kind of place to print out millions of emails only to scan them back in again.

I'm glad to know the real reason!

I just want to add that I would expect the exact same thing from the German government. Glad to see we're not all that different