Something like this just seems so obvious. Of course, an agent should be able to act on a remote machine. In theory, this is simple: just give it another set of tools that acts somewhere else.
In theory, it should be possible (trivial, even) to simultaneously connect multiple folders to a single session (as to mirror a more complex workspace). However, I haven't really seen any coding agent that can connect to multiple environments yet.
As far as I'm informed the complexity doing this is a little bit higher than just giving it read and write tools, if I understand correctly, modern harnesses are a little bit more optimized per model (diff formats, see "apply patch").
Not really. This is all so new, noone is using it correctly, because noone knows how to yet. We’re all just kind of flailing our arms around with it, but it’s clearly a force multiplier and its increased use is an actionable signal
To expand on the HDR example: There’s this interesting lecture series about computational photography by Marc Levoy, who worked on the earlier Pixel cameras: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y7HrM-fk_Rc
From what I remember, the core thesis is “take a lot of pictures and take the best parts”, which works for a surprising number of cases.
> There's also the fact that Ubuntu ships with the GNOME desktop environment, and really only GNOME.
This is a feature. Standardization is what makes „Works on Ubuntu“ a stable target.
I also dislike Snap and the various other Ubuntu anti-features, which is why I recommend Pop OS - at least I did when it was a light weight Ubuntu fork, it may not be anymore.
This is just a rando‘s opinion, so it may not be based on that, but my intuition from a few years ago is that Debian/Ubuntu still has a reliable lead in the availability of software packages, especially less popular ones: You’ll almost never find something that doesn’t work on Ubuntu, for other distros this happens sometimes.
Has this changed? Maybe with the widespread adoption of Flatpak this is not much of an issue for consumer apps anymore?
In theory, it should be possible (trivial, even) to simultaneously connect multiple folders to a single session (as to mirror a more complex workspace). However, I haven't really seen any coding agent that can connect to multiple environments yet.
As far as I'm informed the complexity doing this is a little bit higher than just giving it read and write tools, if I understand correctly, modern harnesses are a little bit more optimized per model (diff formats, see "apply patch").
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