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🌀 Experimenting with poster templates #artstr

Am I connected with any software engineers that have done independent contracting?

AI agents have been the special focus of 2025, which was enabled by giving AI the ability to invoke tools. This has been a major transition point, moving from chatbots that are purely conversational to entities that can take actions while operating on a plan. Computer use represents one application of agentic AI: enabling the AI to use a mouse and keyboard just like a human user would. This reveals a distinction between "programmatic interfaces" and "graphical interfaces". The majority of human users interact with the latter, clicking on graphics and navigating by visuals. Artificial intelligence, however, is particularly suited for programmatic interfaces. Consider how AI agents operate within development environments. When an agent deploys an application, runs tests, or manages version control, it interfaces through command-line tools, APIs, and file system operations. These programmatic interfaces are deterministic: a command either succeeds or fails with structured feedback. There's no ambiguity about where a button is located or whether a menu item has been redesigned. Computer-use agents introduce a fundamentally different paradigm. Rather than direct programmatic access, they interpret visual information through screenshots, use vision models to understand interface layouts, and simulate human interactions through mouse movements and keyboard inputs. This approach mirrors how humans interact with computers, but at a significant cost in efficiency and reliability. The performance implications are substantial. Programmatic interfaces execute operations directly through API calls, shell commands, and file operations. Computer-use requires a multi-step process: capture screen state, process visual information, interpret interface elements, plan actions, and execute simulated inputs. Each layer adds latency, computational overhead, and potential points of failure. This raises a fundamental question about the direction of agentic #AI development. Are we optimizing for the right interface layer? For developers and technical workflows, programmatic access is already available and demonstrably more efficient. Computer-use appears to solve for scenarios where programmatic interfaces don't exist, or systems designed exclusively for human interaction. The most practical architecture may be hybrid: programmatic interfaces as the primary mode, with computer-use as a fallback for exceptional cases. This mirrors how many developers already work, preferring command-line tools and APIs while occasionally resorting to GUI navigation when necessary. I've been building infrastructure that is designed to be usable by both humans and agents. A core component to this is ensuring the interface is programmatic. This doesn't eliminate the possibility of a graphical interface down the line, but the programmatic interface foundation means the agent can directly use the tool without the overhead that comes with GUIs.

so much of my 'cooking ability' relies on butter and cheese

The flow of information is fundamental to everything that civilization does. Networks of communication, always open and streaming

Social media is an evolution of something as old as history. Our ability to network and communicate has kept us alive and made our lives more meaningful for a very long time.

modelling plant growth is interesting

I want to explore organized complexity. Like when a pattern becomes stable and replicates in game of life. Or how cells differentiate, how organs are created, how microorganisms move, etc

Picked up some stone ground mustard

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I want to hear your experiences with bartering

Researching Graph Cellular Automaton

Anyone ever build cellular automata?

simple rules aren't so simple

It's one thing to make an organized and complex structure. It's another thing for that structure to be stable without eating everything else

Primal has been crashing for me when I go to open notifications

broad cast net work

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Breathe deeply. Drink water. Move your body.

You can't be fully captured by a thought-form you're observing arise. The Stoics called it the inner citadel; Zen calls it the space between stimulus and response.