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Nice @OP i put together something similar as well. Incidentally I found for motion design specifically llm is not able to infer specific animations as well as it just being described very plainly and accurately what is happening and the timing.

One thing which sort of worked decently was actually take the frames and put them into a grid and have the agent look at the image of all of the frames together. It did surprisingly well but missed a lot of subtle details that it couldn’t see.

Also tried various kinds of vision embeddings, heat map of motion etc, and blur etc to show motion. But none really worked as well so I ended up just describing it until it got it. Haven’t quite found the right solution yet.

Go is my go to for simple coding projects now, if i have an agent work grind on it. It’s lightweight fast and resource minimal, while being quick to code.

Go tooling is kind of surprisingly minimal and takes more taming then should be required. Especially monorepo workspace support seems a bit like an afterthought.

Hope to see continued improvements because in agentic era go is a serious go to.

Rust is top tier but for most things, it’s not really needed for an agent, to spend longer tokens fixing memory ceremony.

But rust tooling is best in class overall I feel and hope google continues improvements for go.

UUIDv7 as pk is inherently the best option besides just a bigint where you really don’t need a public id.

But a Url62 as a url safe public id from the pk is simple and straightforward to use and comes with few risks of leak issues. Wish postgres had native base62 encoding for url62 now that it has uuidv7 native.

I agree technically but in most use cases the timestamp from uuidv7 is not a security leak. Especially where you’re already sharing that data in some way or another. A default guid is unnecessary if you use uuidv7 I think (in most situations).

Clawchrome uses a mitm proxy like this for network capture of a browser. I had my agent test using network capture with playwright, then again with simple HAR style reconstruction of the mitm proxy capture. It was just as effective.

Check it out if you want to give your agent a real browser, no cdp. clawchrome.com

There are many usecases for agents having access to a real browser and many usecases for humans where work wise it's useful or for agent success in completing the task. Including any specific situations where sites may block "controlled" browsers, as well as co-working.

If an agent is controlling your own browser, it can get in the way of you being able to do work as well.

Additional security control, if you have control and audit trails regarding what the agent is doing, think things like not having access to the keys, cookies are unavailable through the api, certain sites blocked, especially for agents that run automated background tasks.

There's a ton of reasons really. Using stealth chromium forks can decrease security, potentially get you blocked from services/sites, and typically can be detected easily because Google is doing a lot more than just compiling Chromium to release Google Chrome now. That's why many of the stealth browsers out there are moving targets, and have tons of instances of being blocked.

Interesting that no one is talking about identity verification likely coming anyway. I’m working on clawchrome.com, a real browser for agents. It can access any website because it’s the real browser.

I sure hope agents don’t swarm social media. But at the same time I think identity verification companies have a tougher problem, ai can produce real looking videos and documents. There’s probably no real way to verify someone purely through the internet at this point.

In this case with the, I believe it’s called quantum tunneling by mullvad, it’s actually a good thing. Because the encapsulation protocol is just UDP/IP, a well established existing protocol that can masquerade as any kind of internet traffic easily.

Makes it difficult to block by censors. Great video I saw here: https://youtu.be/pZiG8r-diTM?si=wy35elqMt1T6euq0

This also means wg is just doing one thing instead of a dozen it doesn’t “need” to.

UniFi 5G 8 months ago

I think it’s going to be targeting mostly stationary HA redundant uplinks. Backup for primary uplink or low usage primary link. In those scenarios pointing at your nearest antenna fixed is much better than an omnidirectional antenna.

Working on this problem but a combo of a skill and an mcp better suited to playwright is the solution IMO.

The issue is for many things playwright is really verbose, by better tailoring outputs and making them more fine grained you’ll get less context bloat and allow the llm to better work with the context. I’m making it open source.

Ah interesting, Yes i see what you’re saying regarding eslint and didn’t consider that. I’m a big of newer linters with better perf but none match the depth currently with eslint. Will keep an eye out on deno lsp!

Docker Hub Is Down 10 months ago

Github actions buildx also going down is a really unintended consequence. It would be great if we could mirror away from docker entirely at this point but I digress.

Wow, this is the key. If it just had python that’s not as useful but the major frameworks is the real value. Definitely going to keep an eye on this. I built a sandbox with deno for ai code generation. It works well enough but there are some use cases where python may make more sense. Nice!

Unfortunately most of the CPUC worked at PGE, the people that understand energy regulation are usually energy folks. And so the CPUC is typically quite understanding of PG&E’s pleas, they approved every single rate hike they’ve proposed. 5 times last year alone.

Is anyone running truenas scale for this kind of purpose. I haven’t used it but its architecture around k8s seems extremely promising. For most use cases a simple docker container is all you need but sometimes running other apps like grafana with a k8 manifest is easier to manage in one vps and gives you the flexibility of a cluster. Just curious.

Yes that works for most use cases but there are use cases where you may need to store or shuttle the time zone. For instance you want to know this UTC timestamp was originally created in PDT. You would have to store two variables. Most other languages have this functionality it can be useful and is good to have, probably only needed by Jedi’s too.

Intel also worked on modems for a long time, ultimately abandoning it and selling it to Apple, who has also not been able to bear fruit with that yet. Modems are hard but Intel with their experience could’ve stuck it out and had a competitive modem chip but instead focused on short term profits which have evaporated now. Note I own shares in both companies.