Before:

> “I want to know why my React app’s state is not updating when I click a button.”

After:

> “React 18. useState. Button click handler sets state but component does not re-render. No error in console. Explain top 3 causes and fix for each. Show code.”

> Notice the transformation: 22 words down from a long conversational sentence, yet more information is packed in because every word carries signal.

It's 27 words up from 17, and would produce poor results on the local models this claims to be targeting. Without some way to iterate and close the loop, models are pretty bad at producing good prompts.

> An open AI model trained in Rio with public funding over the last year by @Prefeitura_Rio surpassing all other models.

https://x.com/CavaliereRio/status/2065984620626129026

There's only one of him, not 40% of my coworkers, but these people can be employed and maintain employment.

Intel homebrew is larger than Linuxbrew, yet I think it'd be shocking if they dropped support for Linuxbrew.

Old machines still work. They're still deeply useful. I'm still using daily an Intel Macbook with homebrew on it. When I no longer use it daily in some years more, it'll still make a perfect server.

I was briefly impressed with OpenClaw a few times, but ultimately was turned off by not being able to get the models to stop being so damnably verbose. I thought I made progress for a while by having it tweak its soul, iterate, switch models, iterate, switch models, fuse the results, iterate... but ultimately it's all forgotten early in each session. And then one day it killed itself by rebuilding the container it was inside.

Hermes apparently has some plagiarism issues they're trying to cover up [0] and I was deeply unimpressed with their janky, flickery CLI that force-enables a bulky obnoxious header on every launch. Hermes did readily dive into its own source code and did readily confirm that there was no way to disable it. So that's neat. It constantly (wants to) run from upstream master which is unsettling.

Nanoclaw and nanobot seemed fine, but not notably different. There were some common bugs and glitches that caused some minor data loss while configuring nanobot. After that I just deciding to start hacking my own together.

What I really want in a harness is being able to actually control and rewrite the entire context window, like Zed's Text Threads before they obnoxiously and inexplicably removed what, to me, was their most powerful and distinguishing feature.

[0] https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/10232

Active STT allows a "No STT loaded" option that mentions it requires a multimodal LLM like Gemma 4. Except even when I use Gemma 4 features, Ctrl+S to dictate doesn't work. Unless I Voice Edit then quickly Dictate as soon as it processes the silence. Sometimes if the Dictation is triggered on silence, it'll just choose to paste whatever text is on screen. There's no way to dismiss the popup with the text before it's ready to vanish on its own. There's no way to preview what the TTS voices sound like without triggering something to be said manually.

It seems like this will be a great tool soon, but currently there are very many rough edges that would benefit greatly from a nice heavy sanding pass.