It's a delight to use, if a little esoteric at first. After the experiment phase, the software ecosystem comes up fairly limited. But I recommend visiting.

Here are some more impressions: https://kconner.com/2025/03/09/haiku-os-study-path.html

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The window manager might look a little old-fashioned, but it seems solid as a dev workstation.

What kind of hardware do you run it on? Has driver support been an issue?

I briefly emulated it with UTM (QEMU) on macOS; the host was an M1 series chip. This story is the first indication that I might run Haiku on that machine's bare metal someday.

I run it on an old Optiplex that is a 3rd gen i3. No issue with drivers but that comes from its old (well seasoned) age.

Then why make an app instead of a website?

Because they're the main prompt injection vector, I think you'd want to distinguish tool results from user messages. By the time you go that far, you need colors for those two, plus system messages, plus thinking/responses. I have to think it's been tried and it just cost too much capability but it may be the best opportunity to improve at some point.

Gotta meet your audience where they are. As a Mobile Safari user, the foremost way I feel my use of the web is crippled is that pages assume a bigger screen or are just poorly arranged.

This of all web pages ought to be easy to read on an iPhone screen, but the way it's constructed prevents it. You can't zoom the whole page out to see the entire table width because the table is in a scrolling frame and wider than its box. You can only scroll the nested frame sideways to see how row labels relate to iPhone cells. If you give up and use landscape, it still scrolls vertically in its frame. You have to aim for the margin or else you'll scroll just an inch and be halted because you caught the table.

Because it's critical that the web be as free as it is:

• It's natural that some pages turn out like this

• So it's natural the web is a little bit shitty all over

• So it's natural the demand for richer web features is low

Just having watched the video, the session setup, close, and launch seem tied to the idea of a single window per app. Is that right? What kinds of workflows is this explicitly meant vs. not meant to support?

The way a user switches window sets with backtick and app windows within them with tab is inverted from the usual major and minor shortcuts. Normally you switch apps with tab and windows within them with backtick, or in the case of stage manager, you switch window sets with tab and windows within them with backtick. As a default I think the keys make less sense than they could.

> …requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device…

The way I read that, you just have to ask for an indication of age. Like when I'm not logged in to Steam and I want to look at a game with blood, it asks for a birth year and I pretend to be 109. That's not exactly "age verification." Am I missing something?

Anybody measure employees pressured by KPIs for a baseline?

"Just like humans..", was also my first thought.

> frequently escalating to severe misconduct to satisfy KPIs

Bug or feature? - Wouldn't Wallstreet like that?

POSIWID [0] and Accountability Sinks [1] territory, I'm sure LLMs will become the beating hearts of corporate systems designed to do something profitably illegal with deniability.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

[1] https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/accountability-sinks

I don't think this is "whataboutism", the two things are very closely related and somewhat entangled. E.g. did the AI learn of violate ethical constraints from training data?

Another interesting question is: What happens when an unyielding ethical AI agent tells a business owner or manager "NO! If you push any further this will be reported to the proper authority. This prompt as been saved for future evidence". Personally I think a bunch of companies are going to see their profit and stock price fall significantly, if an AI agent starts acting as a backstop for both unethical and illegal behavior. Even something as simple as preventing violation of internal policy could make a huge difference.

To some extend I don't even thing that people realize that what they're doing is bad, because humans tend to be a bit fuzzy and can dream up reason as to why rules don't apply or wasn't meant for them, or this is a rather special situation. This is one place where I think properly trained and guarded LLMs can make a huge positive improvement. We're are clearly not there yet, but it's not a unachievable goal.

> A problem repeatedly occurred on "https://factory.strongdm.ai/".

Why make a desktop windowing system app, for a user group who runs a bunch of simultaneous terminal sessions with tear-off tabs or tmux panels, and then force everything into one window that can only display a single session at a time?

The Open button and then codex resume --last is good, but it's a waste and The Wrong Abstraction not to make instantiable conversation windows from the get-go.

The main problem I have with the language is compile times. Rust is good at many things, but not that.

Xcode is optional, though its primacy has meant less adoption of Swift's first party LSP and VS Code extension.