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by segmenta 2mo ago
Just did - asked Claude Opus 4.8 in Claude Desktop to generate an image of a horse. It drew an SVG by hand in code and said (verbatim): "I drew it by hand in code, not with an AI image generator. There's no diffusion/photo im
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Thanks for trying it out and reporting this. We looked into the specific issue you mentioned. Collapsing replies does exist in the product, but we found it doesn't work for emails sent from Outlook (our guess on why you might have face
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Makes a ton of sense, and the framing is correct - it's easy to build for the ecosystem you live in. We plan to add M365 (Outlook) soon. And noted on "Continue with Microsoft" at sign-in.
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by segmenta 2mo ago
I think we agree on the diagnosis: generating code was never the whole bottleneck. Where we differ is the conclusion. Work is implementation plus verification (specing, testing, checking it actually solves the problem). Pre-AI, implementati
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by segmenta 2mo ago
You can use both private LLM instances or hosted ones. On private we support Ollama, LM Studio and any OpenAI compatible API. In hosted, we support: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway. No native Amazon Bedrock support,
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by segmenta 2mo ago
That's fair - "your data lives on your machine as plain files" is the concrete claim, and something we should lead with. Will take a look at how Apple frames it, thanks.
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by segmenta 2mo ago
vLLM works today - it exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and you can point Rowboat at a custom base URL in model settings.
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Thank you! And would love to share notes. The tiny-models-only discipline is interesting; we do special handling just to keep local models from being overwhelmed, so I'd like to hear how far you've pushed it. You can find me on Di
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Thanks for the concrete list! I understand where you are coming from. Will go through these and see what we could support. If you drop your stack into a GitHub issue, that's the best place for us to work through it (and for others to +
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Yes - the files on disk are the source of truth. If you edit a note directly in the vault, Rowboat picks it up.
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Yes! You can use local models through Ollama and LM Studio. We do some special handling when you use local models, such as suppressing background agents when you chat, so the model is not overwhelmed.
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Local-first for us means: your data such as emails, notes, meetings, the knowledge graph - lives on your machine as plain Markdown, readable and deletable, and the app doesn't require our servers to run. You can also go fully local for
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Yes! Under settings you can connect your WhatsApp or Telegram and chat with the assistant. It can query your knowledge and trigger coding tasks. In addition, we have a caffeinate mode (in new release) that keeps your machine awake so the co
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Fair list: 1. True - no OS-level container today. The constraint is approval gating: consequential actions surface as a permission ask before they run (a separate supervisor LLM flags anything outside your intent). 2. True today. We'd
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by segmenta 2mo ago
On productivity: I feel the baseline for productivity has moved up. As a personal anecdote, I had a startup before with 25+ engineers. Now we are a startup of 2 co-founders and a couple of interns, and if I step back, I feel we can produce
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Thanks - would love to have this work for you. This is a great idea. Almost like an interview mode where the assistant asks pointed questions (using your capsule spec as a guideline) and writes the answers back into the graph. And thanks fo
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Thanks!
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Thanks, that's exactly the bet. Chat-heavy AI usage seems like a temporary phase.
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by segmenta 2mo ago
That is a neat idea. We could tap into the locally-synced Thunderbird files for the knowledge graph, which would make ingestion straightforward. We could explore this. The write side - pre-creating drafts on threads, sending etc. still need
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by segmenta 2mo ago
This is brilliant, thanks for sharing! We're exploring a company brain - team-level context rather than just individual, and the context capsule seems like a great way to distill the individual knowledge graph into team level useful co
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by segmenta 2mo ago
That hunch is probably right - the labs are likely building towards this. However, our bet is that in knowledge work the labs don't have a structural advantage: the model isn't the product there, unlike coding where it mostly is -
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by segmenta 2mo ago
That's great to hear! Would love your contributions. Please feel free to find us or DM me on Discord if you want to have a quick chat on anything.
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by segmenta 2mo ago
That's totally fair. We will try to add a way to disable email if you don't want to connect. Appreciate the kind words!
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Thanks! Fair - it's Gmail-only today. We've thought about generic IMAP, but it seems to have some technical gaps for how our email surface works. For instance, there's no reliable cross-provider way to pre-create drafts on a
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Thanks, that's great to hear. Would love to know how it goes once you've tried it - and if anything's missing for your setup, let us know (we are active on Discord).
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Today the UI and the server run as a single app. We're working on separating that, so you could technically have one server with multiple clients. But even then, for collaboration with others, there are two issues with sharing a login
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by segmenta 2mo ago
Not yet, but we're actively working exactly toward this - group chats with the assistant, where people can see the session and take turns steering. We're exploring a peer-to-peer connection for it so there's no server in the
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by segmenta 2mo ago
You can read all the built-in skills today in https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat/tree/main/apps/x/pack... Each skill lives in its own subfolder with a skill.ts, and they're registered
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by segmenta 2mo ago
That's fair and you can do that. We built Rowboat with the principle that the whole should be better than the sum of the parts - the email client, notetaker, and surfaces all write back into one knowledge graph, which then improves eac
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by segmenta 2mo ago
You should be able to ask the assistant to copy over your data to its 'knowledge' folder. This is in ~/.rowboat/knowledge - you could copy it over manually too. Now Rowboat should be able to access and update it. If it&#

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