RE: LeoThread 2025-12-27 03-45

It's impossible to use this for more than a weekend without realizing it's completely over
At first a GUI app is built — fine. Then GUIs feel like a waste of time, so a terminal app follows

Apps then feel like a drag, so the system is asked to do the task directly, and it works immediately

Afterwards asking the system to do things also feels tedious, so it is asked to make a system that issues those commands in the same order and for the same reasons
It can probably handle tab switching and clicks too

Even attempts to break it with ridiculous requests succeed, and that's when it becomes clear... it's over
Claude now builds an agent system that actually works
Recursively self-improving machine intelligence, today, on a laptop

An agent system creates a custom agent that improves simply by being used (with light nudges based on what was learned in the session)
Previously bearish on agents, that stance changed
This refers to home-cooked janky agents

Loved ones might think the obsession has gone too far
It's necessary to pull away because every attempt to find a limit fails to hit one

It's not even "addictive", it's just unbelievable that the next crazy idea could also work — and when it does, it's over