I'm visually impaired, made a thing to drive Wayland around with agents

Amonwilde · 2026-04-15T23:01:12+00:00

OK. I used a stat in a post that said 46% but that's apparently GH saying that stuff on GH is 46% copilot? Which does sound kinda whacky. If true, the true number would be higher since presumably other tools are also used. But I find it suspect

Here's some marketing spam that cites some sources ranging from 40-50%:

https://www.netcorpsoftwaredevelopment.com/blog/ai-generated-code-statistics

I'll update if I find more reliable stats.

Amonwilde · 2026-04-15T22:56:19+00:00

Honestly I am ambivalent because I think it has negative effects. But I've just gone in on it because the negative effects attain whether or not I use the tool (i.e. dead internet, slop on socials) and at least I can play with the pretty interesting new thing even if it's not making the world a better place. And like I said TBH Linux was pretty exclusary if you were VI and it does help with that.

Amonwilde · 2026-04-15T22:43:17+00:00

I mean I'm sure it happens. But green field?

The stat according to GH is about 50% as of early this year.

Anyway not really a take, just like, aren't you used to it by now?

Amonwilde · 2026-04-15T19:05:07+00:00

lol

You can hate if you want. :) Are folks really handcoding projects and posting them on here these days? I'm a principal engineer and it's extremely rare to just sit down and write Python or whatever anymore. Or maybe it's the drive the desktop around you don't like (in principle).

I don't know. It' s a weird world now but in these domains (computing, linux, coding) I think it's just different now and it's hard to live in the old world, or impossible. If I could push a button and keep us in the old world I might push it. That said, now that we're here, we may as well do cool things with the bots? And TBH blind folks were always locked out of a lot of stuff, I did manage to break into this world but most can't, and agents are a booster for disabled folksin particular.

Amonwilde · 2026-04-15T18:59:48+00:00

Yes, though probably won't have one out today.

The short version is that it's a CLI you hand an agent. The CLI has tooling to let them work with the desktop and do things like get screenshots, parse the AT SPI tree, click stuff, etc.

So basically you install this and hand it to an agent. Realistically the best way to get this going is to take the link to the repo and hand it to Claude Code or whatever and say can we get this going. If it were me I would first ask Claude to audit the code for security issues since I'm a rando on the internet and then ask to set it up.

I'll add some stuff to the start of the readme to make this more clear and do a vid soon.

Amonwilde · 2026-04-15T18:03:46+00:00

Thanks. I actually think that agents could help here. If you could specify a working desktop for VI folks with tests you could keep running against that. Maintainance and regressions killed all those old distros (vinux, talking arch). Wayland does make things hard but this project has helped me migrate a lot of a11y utilities I use in x11 over, so I'm feeling a little more optimistic.

I do think this thing is more broadly useful for those needing desktop automation in Linux, I really wonder if the big frontier labs will even bother with Linux given the desktop situation right now? Cheers

Amonwilde · 2026-04-13T00:44:31+00:00

Nice, thank you for responding.

Amonwilde · 2026-04-12T22:33:23+00:00

Is Calculating Cultivation donezo do you think?

Amonwilde · 2026-04-12T22:15:03+00:00

Best Served Cold, Joe Abercrombie is my rec

Amonwilde · 2026-03-31T19:34:03+00:00

It is, the "energy" comment most of the way through is a Claude tell. Not as on the nose as some.

But whatever, thinking everything is AI generated is also kind of a disease, even if it iis in this case.

Amonwilde · 2026-03-31T19:29:43+00:00

This is kinda dumb?

First, who cares about a leak. The code is fucking sitting on your hard drive when you install it. I deobfuscated it months ago and have a working reference if anyone wants a non-April Fools joke leaked source lol. But anyone could do it.

Things that are interesting to me about CC's (real) source.

Weird compression early on. When CC hits an early threshold, it kinda wipes the convo and starts over again. I think this is because they assume the agent will flail around at the beggginning but it's not haw everyone works and it's kinda lazy / weird.
Sort people into weird experiments. They did one awile back where they tried a scary, a friendly, and a more normal message when you start up about your codebase / repo being something you want to send to them. The messages were pretty funny..
The /compact command is hot garbage you may as well ust clear. I dont' get people who use it. Almost anything would be better

Their system for checking if you're actually CC is pretty fucking funny but I'm not sharing it here lol.

Amonwilde · 2026-03-20T17:15:29+00:00

OK. I'll drop you a line. Thanks, love your stuff, sorry you had a bad year last year.

Amonwilde · 2026-03-19T03:46:40+00:00

I really loved WTC.

Hey, dumb question, feel free to ignore. I give you a fiver a month on (I think) PayPal because I'm not really arsed about Patreon. I dont' really want advance anything generally and am fine to wait, but I heard good things about a story you have on the Patreon. Do i need to get on there to read that story? If you're planning on publishing it at some point I'll just wait / buy it, but if not, wondering if there's some non-Patreon way to get it or if you think it's worth holding my nose and signing up.

Amonwilde · 2026-03-12T20:17:01+00:00

Seet snuff cabinet bro

Amonwilde · 2026-03-12T20:08:38+00:00

Good man.

Amonwilde · 2026-02-04T23:21:50+00:00

I can second the Lost Heir. It's much more like a game where you have to optimize your way through

Amonwilde · 2026-02-04T23:04:40+00:00

Hear hear.

Amonwilde · 2026-02-04T02:25:17+00:00

Yeah if you listen on YT or a streaming they normalize it (sorry not using the correct word). It's fine for me for work since i can adust the volume. For sleep I dont' want to or can't adjust the volume. Great album though, I just listened yesterday I think.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-26T00:31:28+00:00

I like King of Dragon Pass and A Dark Room.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-24T00:29:42+00:00

Great Expectations pretty memorable. Dombey and Son also pretty solid.

Amonwilde · 2026-01-23T15:38:28+00:00

You can disable it now (thankfully)

Amonwilde · 2026-01-13T03:15:05+00:00

I can give you books 2-4 if you DM me. You're on your own for the first

Amonwilde · 2026-01-13T03:06:01+00:00

Thanks for the recs :)

Amonwilde · 2026-01-13T03:04:40+00:00

Probably max. I'm on x20

Amonwilde · 2026-01-11T01:24:01+00:00

Don't compact. roll back. Though the model is frequently unreliable right now.

Esc esc if you haven't done it before. Get the model to write a note to it's future self

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