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I think this is true for some tasks where you want a clean slate, but increasingly I find myself constantly referencing specific skills, or having files with prompts I use all the time. I'd much rather have an agent that remembers things about me and specifics about my workflows and "taste" - of course having the ability to reset context sometimes or prune memory is valuable but I think the future of agentic AI is blocked on "omnipotent context"

Hi, cofounder of Tinfoil here. We're working on implementing prompt caching. It just requires more work than with traditional, non-private inference and requires some careful considerations to actually implement it.

It's a perfect prompt for a rich HN discussion so while in general I agree with you, in this case the discussion is what matters.

I still have the Be My Eyes app installed but haven’t had a call in over a year - I think it’s a testament to how powerful AI vision models have become. I find it cool that AI works well enough for vision impaired people to solve all their problems.

However there was something very human and nice about helping out a stranger with a small random task from time to time. I fondly remember one older lady who spilled a box of blueberries on the kitchen floor and I helped her hunt them all down by guiding her around. It was 10 minutes of connection with a random person doing something fun and which is till remember fondly 4 years later

Beautiful lecture. As with a lot of things that shape our everyday life we forget to contemplate their qualities. For example fonts subtly impact how we perceive, understand, feel about any text yet we fail to give it much thought as Etienne points out. A shape of a letter, especially in math papers, can influence how "beautiful" and understandable the proof is. Really appreciate that Knuth spent years building LaTeX so that compsci and math papers could be formatted as beautiful PDFs and not published as Word documents

> I think if Bob Odenkirk lived on a community farm where everyone had to work together to survive he would be far happier and think life is far more meaningful.

So you think everyone was happier in the USSR? /s

It’s not top of the line and mostly not open source

Not to mention their recent integration of Persona ID verification - that was the last straw for me.

But they already have PII on nearly all users. Many user upload documents with their name, or pictures of themselves, or have a chat where home addresses are involved. All of this is information anthropic already has on their users (voluntarily provided via chats or via api) and is equivalent to what Persona gets via their verification - it’s just more convenient to use a third party SaaS product for this than vibe coding their own identity verification platform I guess

Yes it appears your personal data IS being sent to open router and the model provider here. The problem I think is that a lot of people (especially in the openclaw community) mistake “I run it on my mac mini” to mean their data is private. Meanwhile all data is being shipped off for training to anthropic via openrouter and both of those parties see everything.

I guess you could theoretically plug in a local model here but of course the readme should be more precise here when talking about privacy

The attestation report is produced ahead of time and verified on each connection (before the prompt is sent). Every time the client connects to do an inference request via one of the Tinfoil SDKs, the attestation report is checked relative to a known-good/public configuration to ensure the connection is to a server that is running the right model.

The attestation is tied to the Modelwrap root hash (the root hash is included in the attestation report) so you know that the machine that is serving the model has the right model weights