Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 191 - Project Tricoder

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[00:00] Christopher David: You would think that with the hundreds of billions of dollars in VC money coming into the AI space that someone would have created a good mobile app for coding on the go.

[00:10] Christopher David: No, nothing.

[00:11] Christopher David: I'm not talking about terminals,

[00:13] Christopher David: remote terminals, typing with a little keyboard,

[00:15] Christopher David: or an IDE.

[00:16] Christopher David: I mean like give me an app that lets me manage and talk to my coding agents on the go.

[00:20] Christopher David: If I'm sitting on the pot,

[00:22] Christopher David: why am I scrolling X when I could be scrolling like updates for my coding agent?

[00:26] Christopher David: Doesn't exist.

[00:27] Christopher David: And before you say, have you tried that one?

[00:29] Christopher David: Is it open source?

[00:30] Christopher David: No?

[00:31] Christopher David: Go fuck yourself.

[00:32] Christopher David: Okay?

[00:32] Christopher David: It's got to be open source.

[00:33] Christopher David: We're not doing closed source bullshit,

[00:35] Christopher David: sir.

[00:35] Christopher David: Okay.

[00:35] Christopher David: Here is the first commit done by our agent here.

[00:41] Christopher David: So this conversation here is,

[00:43] Christopher David: hey,

[00:43] Christopher David: editAgents.md to include a comprehensive summary.

[00:46] Christopher David: This is talking to my desktop over Tailscale VPN.

[00:53] Christopher David: and it made this commit and it worked okay so this code base all open source this code base is like a day old and it's already works I'm able to walk around my house with my phone and it talks to my desktop okay good start

[01:07] Christopher David: um openai codex blah blah blah why are we doing this there's no good mobile app for managing coding agents while afk coding agency allies like codex are good enough to handle most day-to-day coding such that devs almost never be need to be in the editor i said in the video like six months ago i only need to be in the editor like 10 of the time and i predicted that that would fall to zero it's essentially falling to zero i'm in the editor maybe one percent of the time i really don't need to be there uh occasionally i just need to kind of like see generally what the agents are doing but like

[01:36] Christopher David: like these agents are really freaking good my point back then and it's certainly reinforced now is that people are not going to need to be sitting behind their computers being glued to the latest billion dollar ide fuck ides they're on the way out the name of the game is async agents and you just need some some way of managing your async agents uh it should be a mobile app nice little push notification hey ping uh you know check on this cool the only reason we're still glued to our computers most of time is because there's no good way to

[02:04] Christopher David: to code on your phone and i don't mean actually coding i mean managing your coding agents to like have them create the code remote terminals are not good enough the labs bolted on code bullshit or underpowered afterthoughts we want unrestricted codex and other agents running async keeping us just updated enough to nudge them along when needed and that nudging along should get less and less as the agents get better and better and as our harness you know evolves and gets more sophisticated just hey do this eight different agents

[02:31] Christopher David: and talk to each other blah blah a good agent frees you from your computer doesn't tie you to it so

[02:41] Christopher David: we're doing a project called tricoder like a tricorder but for coding yeah I'll put this up on test flight in a few days if someone really wants to add cloud code support they can do that we may do it eventually but

[03:01] Christopher David: Codex is what we're starting with.

[03:04] Christopher David: Okay.

[03:07] Christopher David: See you soon.