As someone who used to use it a ton, Reddit is such a shadow of its former self that it's insane. It's actually like 90% bots. Their user growth numbers are all fake. The only real people on there are marketers making fake posts about an issue and commenting using alts and promoting a solution as a form of "AI engine optimization."
This is pretty interesting in a lot of non-surface-level ways.
I can see OpenAI pushing for this as a sort of more durable moat compared to the now huge number of agentic harnesses that run on your own machine.
This might be getting the foot into some sort of bundling as well. Like unrestricted models or custom fine tuned agents inside this and not providing direct APIs to those endpoints.
That being said I don't see a lot of reasons for people to jump on this if it doesn't bundle something killer. Like to me the fact that GPT Work runs on your own machines and all the artifacts and work in progress there for you to look at is sort of the whole point. I don't just want a final artifact.
>GPT Work runs on your own machines...is sort of the whole point.
Which is also why they want to remove it from your machine. Call it conspiratorial, but I keep thinking about "You'll own nothing and be happy." It seems like the industry is quickly moving in a direction where devices are turning into gateway into the cloud, and personal computing will turn into a hobby that prices out the average individual.
Sure, but neither did I. I summarized the quote, but OP's full quote included the the value of having the work artifacts and works-in-progress on your system to look at. If you are developing software on a VM, there will still be tools to view the artifacts remotely, but this Agents API is still a sign of local development trending away.
The goal isn't to eliminate scrapers, its to prevent a distributed scraping network from requesting 10000 pages a second each from 10000 different websites.
Yes, I also strongly suspect that this is only going to move more parts of scrapers onto consumer devices. The egress proxies are already there, why not use a little bit of the compute as well?
The malware already results in noticeable slowdown just running the scraper. Solving anubis challenges is significantly more difficult than simply requesting the page, so it is not feasible on-device without making the device totally unusable.
In real life, there is always this feedback edge from the results to the methodology.
Theoretically it's unscientific to do tweaks like this but in reality this is what actual science is because you need to see the results understand the problems in your experimental designs.
Now the interesting thing is that you could repair the bias problem. The main issue is that you will do these tweaks after a bad result not after they look fine.
Maybe we could commit ahead of time that the experiment will be reanalyzed after results regardless of what they are. Instead of only when the results disprove the hypothesis.
So like artificial analysis committing to a fixed cadence of index updates instead of when the results start looking jank.
They gave out bankable resets for every day people on pro plans didn't get Astra. Given that, I wish they'd waited a few more days before activating it on my account :-D
I must have been one of the last ones to get it because I managed to snag two bankable resets. Already reset once after having it clear up geometry in Blender, but it did a fantastic job!
They haven’t activated Astra for me yet, I have two resets now. I’ve been using the opportunity to test out how good 5.6 Sol is at computer use asking it to generate stuff in Blender which has been… interesting
Edit: nevermind it JUST gave me a notification to use it!
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