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AI wants composition, not chat(linuxtoaster.com)
3 points by dirk94018 5mo ago|0 comments
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by dirk94018 5mo ago
Author here. I own LinuxToaster and wrote this after getting frustrated with every AI tool asking me to move into its interface. The short version: Unix survived 40 years because small tools compose. Most AI products are doing the opposite
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Boundary Work, Not Castles(linuxtoaster.com)
3 points by dirk94018 5mo ago|1 comments
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by dirk94018 5mo ago
But wait.. there's even more.. Jam did a great job with its times and while. But sometimes you want map, so we wrote a couple more command line utilities: imessage bot toast "reply in a friendly tone" email bot toast "re
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Show HN: Composable AI in the Unix command line(linuxtoaster.com)
2 points by dirk94018 5mo ago|1 comments
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C-Suite tried to replace every coder it ever met. Now AI replaces the C-Suite?(dhmventures.com)
1 points by dirk94018 5mo ago|0 comments
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Shibboleth 67(aimeru.com)
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
Fair. The posts have all been from our blog, because that's where I write. I'll make a point of submitting other things I find interesting too. In the meantime, happy to discuss the actual ideas in the article if anyone's cur
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
After reading the guidelines... This IS the original source. I wrote it. The guidelines explicitly ask for this. A post about supply chain attacks, the economics of open source, and the LiteLLM compromise that happened today is squarely on-
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
Management is cargo culting the tooling without grasping what AI is actually good at. Because they don't look at it. Meanwhile smart blue collar guys are only limited by their willingness to ask questions. Because they do. It's th
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
Fair point. The article doesn't mention LinuxToaster's products — the curiosity here is about the future of open source, not promotion. For what it's worth, toastd does what LiteLLM does in C with no Python supply chain, whic
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
Author here. I run LinuxToaster, a set of commercial Unix tools for the AI era. This started as notes after watching the LiteLLM compromise unfold in real time — 94 million monthly downloads, credential stealer active for three hours, maint
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The Pincer Attack – How AI Killed Open Source(linuxtoaster.com)
3 points by dirk94018 6mo ago|7 comments
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
Author. Esther was right about the bots indexing the wreckage. She just didn't know she'd be the wreckage. HN (native app + web), Discord, Facebook, LinkedIn, Lemmy, TikTok, Bing, Yandex, Perplexity, plus a bunch of RSS readers (M
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Show HN: Sudo Hold Me(linuxtoaster.com)
1 points by dirk94018 6mo ago|1 comments
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Sudo hold me – Three unsupervised LLMs on a Unix Socket(linuxtoaster.com)
2 points by dirk94018 6mo ago|0 comments
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
Author here. Good points. We renamed to UnixClaw — too many NoClaw namespace collisions. On the .tools gap: you wouldn't put `rm` in .tools. The tools are purpose-built — `kal` talks to Calendar.app via EventKit, `rem` talks to Reminde
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
Author here. Now renamed to UnixClaw. We wrote small C CLI tools that bridge Unix pipes to native macOS apps — Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, iMessage, email. Combined with toast (our LLM CLI), the whole assistant is one line: imessage bot
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Show HN: UnixClaw – A Mac Mini AI assistant in one line of bash, no OpenClaw(linuxtoaster.com)
3 points by dirk94018 6mo ago|3 comments
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
Relevant timing: the NemoClaw thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427027 ) has a lot of discussion about whether sandboxing solves OpenClaw's security problems. We think the answer is fewer moving parts, not
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
NVIDIA's answer to OpenClaw's security problems is to add more layers. LinuxToaster's answer is to use fewer: https://linuxtoaster.com/blog/noclaw.html
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
Author here. We built NoClaw after watching OpenClaw users burn $800-$3600/month on tokens, deal with 1,100+ malicious ClawHub skills, and have agents email their entire contact list unprompted. An AI assistant can be genuinely useful
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NoClaw – Mac Mini Assistant the Unix Way(linuxtoaster.com)
3 points by dirk94018 6mo ago|2 comments
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
Came across as honest. Because why else.
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
Totally agree. We need to get the ratio between deterministic and non deterministic software right.
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
Unix approach can be surprisingly powerful. https://linuxtoaster.com/blog/gradientdescentforcode.html
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
MCP is a bit of a rube goldberg machine. Unix solved that problem. Pipe text in, get text out, discover capabilities incrementally. The fact that we need benchmarks to prove CLIs use fewer tokens than dumping 55k of JSON schema upfront is e
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
"Driven by curiosity and envy, I tested it out." Two days of work driven by envy. Not what open source should be about.
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
Interesting. I wanted to do toast | bash to let the AI drive the computer but the bash shell really got in the way. Too much complexity. The things that annoy humans, $ expansion, special characters, etc don't work for AI either. Ended
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by dirk94018 6mo ago
Author, got annoyed by Python startup times, frameworks, orchestration layers, and the general state of AI tooling. We write everything in C/C++. Toast overhead is ~20ms per invocation — that's what makes the loop practical - toas

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