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Hi HN. I spent the last week furiously building and polishing up this extremely simple idea: that every coding agent deserves to be born with a memorable and easily scannable name. The agents should know their own names too, so when they reach out across another surface, you know who's calling.

Keeping track of many async agentic coding sessions can get utterly exhausting. Giving them names make it surprisingly easier to remember which thread is working on what, and to triage notifications and messages at a glance. It's also weirdly funny.

I hope you find this little tool useful as I have, and looking forward to hearing feedback / anything you build on top of it.

I’ve been maining Dia for months. You can just turn off / ignore the AI crap and it’s great; just like Arc. I understand the allergy people have to it but I was pleasantly surprised.

It appears to work in the UI, but go test your product. Mine didn't receive the new keys.

Same situation. Frankly unbelievable - how do you not lead with this? You can't tell customers to rotate their keys and not inform them in the same breath them that actually, environment variable updates currently cannot deploy.

Yup, got my OpenRouter key. They managed to run up a whole $2 on Opus 5.5 and Fable. Well, time for a new hosting provider I guess...

Incidentally, I'm testing Muse as an email triage agent today - it buried "oh also, railway and anthropic say yours keys have been leaked and you need to rotate asap" under 50 routine deploy / admin emails notifications. Oh to live through such an AI powered software renaissance!

super cool!!

feature idea: when the site is in off hour, it would be fun to show looks / spotted on previous days so there’s still something to do.

Thanks! I still can’t believe how lucky I got finding this thing, to be honest.

Happy to share more if you ever want to connect. Tl;dr: feel from the inside is bad, would not recommend!

This was before AI got good, so I would do it differently today.

Back then, I got my genome sequenced via nebula genomics (no longer around). I found a lab that screens ~150 genes that potentially contribute to circadian disturbances. I punched all of those genes into this software called gene.iobio that came with the nebula report, which reports any potentially interesting variants and links out to Clinvar. There were a ton of results, everyone carries loads of these harmless variants, but the one that jumped out was in a gene I knew played a critical role in clock timing, and amazingly, that was it.

Classic night-owl creative type here.

A few years I was playing around with analyzing my own genome and found a needle in the haystack: an unstudied clock gene mutation (in CRY2), which, after correspondence and tests from scientists in the field, is effectively confirmed to delay the clock. Sort of unbelievable story, will write it all up some day.

As far as ADHD is concerned, I’ve never been officially diagnosed but certainly have some traits (and notably missing others); it makes me suspect that ADHD is probably a cluster of different etiologies, some caused by circadian issues, some not.

I’ve often wondered if having this variant would be useful at all for chronobiologists in the field to study / observe. Feel free to shoot me an email (in bio).

This is terrible logic.

Trump is stripping the White House for copper and selling it!! Well, actually he’s not, but since we know he’s corrupt, isn’t it safe to just assume he might also be doing this other bad thing?

If your decision is to avoid Muse due to Meta’s poor track record, that’s absolutely your prerogative (and a reasonable one!). But specific claims must be evaluated based on their evidence. This article fails that. There’s no story here.

Okay, but what is the evidence to back up this assertion? My point is, at this time, there is none. There is no “it turns out”. Give them some time to screw up at least.

I’m pretty frustrated with Muse and the last thing I want to be doing with my free time is defending Meta, but this is such clickbait.

Point by point:

> “OMG you can jailbreak it and get it to spill its VM”

This is the whole point; any content on the VM is yours. It runs in an isolated sandboxed VM separate from stored credentials etc; this is effectively your own computer. You don’t have to trick it.

> It collects dossiers on your contacts

These are more text files that live on your private VM, alongside memory.md, etc. Do you want your secretary to forget every person you contact every day?

> It accessed Messages without full disk access

This whole story never made sense or was substantiated. Full disk access is an OS level security boundary; the user had to switch this on.

> It sold some guys stuff for too cheap and gave out his address

OK this one I basically believe, haha. Because this is the problem with Muse: the LLM is just too dumb to perform complex tasks effectively in many cases.

Can we CRISPR it into humans? I volunteer. I’ve always wanted to improve my protein folding accuracy.