frenchie4111

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ex. Software engineer turned agent manager

jokes aside, I really do love software engineering that's why I am making an IDE for this era. Let me know what you think:

https://getness.dev

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Comment · 20 days ago
idk man fingerprints don't taste that good
Comment · 21 days ago
Yes I want push to talk in ness

But trying to implement it directly into ness hasn't worked that well. It seems like betterwispr/wisprflow/etc all seem to belong better as their own app, and we just need good integration points between the push-to-talk app and the text consuming apps (like the IDE)

Comment · 21 days ago
This is awesome. I really want to get something like this integrated directly into my agent IDE (https://getness.dev).

The main thing I need is some way of auto-sending a "end of message" button (like a newline would do) at the end of the message so that it auto-sends the chat.

Not sure the exact right way to implement that, but it seems like something that could be general purpose. Maybe a setting per-active app?

Comment · 2 months ago
I noticed earlier this week that my URL bar now pre-fills githubstatus.com instead of github.com when I type "gith"
Comment · 3 months ago
It's a step in the wrong direction but also token efficiency has become a focus relatively recently (just the past few weeks it seems like the zeitgeist has turned it's attention to efficiency) while work on this model probably started many many months ago. I would expect to see models released that focus on token efficiency in 6-12 months
Comment · 3 months ago
Agreed - my intention is definitely not "harness on every server" and more "make it easy for the backend half of harness to run on your personal dev box". This just comes from my experience at BigTechCorp where all of the engineers (myself included) used beefy EC2 instances for development (so tests ran fast, lol) and VSCode remote to actually edit files
Comment · 3 months ago
While I agree it is predominantly text getting sent over the wire, it would be pretty complex to implement harness on just a text stream without the websocket abstraction (I thought about it for a while). If you want to just SSH and run an agent you can, but the point of harness is that it has better ergonomics than a bare terminal can provide
Comment · 3 months ago
When I built harness IDE one of the core goals was to stop having to leave my laptop open all the time while my agents finished the refactor.

Launching today is harness' SSH bootstrap mode. It works very similarly to VSCode's "connect to remote" feature. Select SSH connection you already have configured, it will connect, install the harness server in ~/.harness, and then the UI will connect over websocket.

Would love feedback if anyone gets a chance to try it out

Comment · 3 months ago
This is awesome! Some feedback - I can't tell anywhere from the website if there is mobile support (which is a must-have if I want to consider moving my company or friends over to this)
Comment · 5 months ago
Totally in agreement with you and the previous commenter. It's not a full re-write. I took an open source project (DocuSeal) and customized it for our needs

That said - Docusign has a moat because people are afraid (and CYA) by using them instead of anything else. To make an eSignature legal isn't really that complex, you just need hash based attribution, some timestamps and some ToS.

Replacing Docusign with something else is no where close to having an AI represent you in court

Comment · 5 months ago
Agreed - They are definitely doing this price change ahead of the Steam Machine on purpose, to anchor that price better.

That said there is hope for the Steam Machine to at least be similarly priced. I'd expect the COGS to come in cheaper than the deck because it doesn't have a screen, battery, joysticks etc and it's likely easier to assemble in general

Comment · 5 months ago
If I didn't love my Steam Deck I would consider re-selling it for profit. This feels like the same thing that happened to used car resale prices during covid. For a year or two you could sell the used car you just bought for a profit

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