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Have been following this for a while, but honestly still not exactly clear to me who/what this tool is meant for

After all, we already have safe conccurent edits, etc via regular git tooling

To me it this seems a bit backwards looking. Increasingly code review is more on verifying the functional requirements, and less about reading every line an agent has written (or watching it write those lines live)


Sure, they're backed by a VC company that is all in on LLM hysteria so everything they backed will have to back that narrative so they can dump their wares for a profit.

It will cause the community to fail because VC dev tooling is unsustainable as the community needs will never take priority over what their VC benefactors want. So if you want the slop that helps you pump out slop they got you covered.

It sounds counter intuitive but you have to remember nearly every business of the planet operates as a centrally planned economy with either a monarch at the helm or an aristocracy. These are some of the least efficient ways to collaborate as humans, at least if history is anything to go by.

I suggest you focus on real open source solutions like neovim, emacs, or helix.


Maybe the core reasons are buried in this, but the amount of empty statements makes it hard to find


I've been thinking the same! Haha

Even for like token efficiency it could make sense - like imagine if the representation were more compact

Agents acn already translate languages quite well. It doesn't seem crazy that they could work and think in a model specific language, and then translate back to English or something for the user


The "Honest size of the effect"

Honestly, haha


unclear use case imo - this sacrifices the ergonomics of actual bash scripting, and hides it behind another language

If your script is complex enough to need a higher level language you might as well just switch to python


The only thing I can think of is if you have an existing system you are integrating with thats implemented in shell script already - for example a packaging or build pack system; but I can’t really see how this could be justified even there because this could easily be a toy that becomes abandoned.


A really common use case is install/bootstrap/setup scripts. You know, those sketchy curl-to-bash things, or cloud-init scripts, or whatever you run to set up your actual higher level tools like Python.


Hi, I am one of the project maintainers :-)

As said there are use cases where you want to use only bash because you can't install scripting languages with their dependences as example.

As usual there is a tool for any user cases and Amber resolves some of them :-)


bash scripting has ergonomics?


Regardless of where it’s deployed I can edit it and run it without any additional tools.


So does an amber script after it's been compiled, that's the whole point. You can tweak it and inspect it if you want. Realistically though you'll probably regenerate it and copy the new compiled version over. But you can do both.


Is it? There is no example of what the compiled output looks like in the website or github. Just because its bash doesn't mean its suitable to be maintained in bash.


Yes?


I wish model launches were like proper product releases

it's impossible to _try_ it out on release!

it's not on their codex subscription, or the web/mobile chatgpt interfaces, or aws bedrock, etc. I just cant find a working endpoint with the latest model after they announce


The announcement says they're rolling it out over the next 24 hours or so. I think it's reasonable to do a slow-roll-out release for one of the most used products on the internet.


For me, minutes ago, as a Plus subscriber:

I started up Codex CLI fresh. That version of Codex was 1.42.5. 5.6 wasn't in the models list.

After I updated Codex to a newer version (0.144.0), 5.6-terra and -luna appeared in the models list (but not 5.6-sol).

(It's impossible for me to know whether updating was causative or just correlative, but that's the timeline I experienced.)


GPT-5.6 Terra just showed up in Codex for me.


I've had fable disengage on anything related even tangentially to "biology"

Even questions about like my heartrate nunbers while running seem to run into the bio weapon filter


Not sure I agree with this - if productivity is going up, then it seems like the value of thinking would _also_ go up

Each thought is just worth so much more


A glorious new era of bespoke industrial code


From the article

"Bolivia is among the world’s most politically turbulent nations, having had nearly 200 coups and revolutions since it won independence from Spain two centuries ago. Morales was ousted by the army as recently as 2019 after a disputed election."


And how many of them were with the support of CIA ?


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