can you describe your "in browser ai workflow tool"? I may or may not be working on something similar and am very interested in what others are building in the space.
I have been doing the same thing, creating small one file "apps". The problem that I have currently is that I often want my Agent to be able to present me with something like a report on a code change, have me mark it up (comments, choices), and then present those interactions back to the model.
I'm experimenting with different ways to standardize some aspect of this process in a lightweight way so an Agent and I can "communicate with each other over rendered html".
A simple script or cli the agent can run to to serve an html app, act as a sink for interactions (can just submit a button+form to the runner port), and then close the page when done can work.
A little farther out in this direction would be something like a persistent client+server via web or electron. It's always on and you iterate in a loop, streaming diffs/file edits back and forth to each other.
A little farther out and you can load extensions that contain templates to generate the html, custom server code to serve htmx interactivity, and agent functionality.
1. "highlight a web page a-la obsidian web clipper and then intake that information into a personal wiki of concepts" (my third prototype in a row of this concept)
2. "visualize the code review process and organize discussion in a non-linear branching conversation"
And I realized both of them are basically chat pane on the left, agent with custom tools, and html "app" pane on the right to support interactivity.
The project as of this comment doesn't have any functionality yet its basically just the panes and a simple agent messaging channel, but if you (or anyone) are interested in the idea comment here and I will reach out when its a bit farther along and actually useful for building things.
Likewise please share your experiences with this concept, I would love to learn what others are doing with this type of workflow!
Lots of Jank still at this point in its life but the hover to popover extra context has been really helpful to keep the main post body more focused than it would otherwise be. I'm not that good at structuring my thoughts yet because I'm so new at writing (the post I linked isn't even finished).
Really interested to see others who are clearly much farther along in their writing journey experimenting with asides and popovers. Your underline animation is very cute. I am trying out a click-to-expand-acronym typing animation that I thought was kind of whimsical.
If you're interested in popups/popovers and sidenotes (https://gwern.net/sidenotes), be sure to check out my website. Did you notice OP also does inflation adjustments (https://gwern.net/static/build/Inflation.hs)? I do them inline, because I think that requiring effort like OP does just leads to the same pervasive lack of numerosity that providing no adjustments at all does, because no one is going to bother to hover over most of them.
OP here! I love your website and didn't realize you also had an inflation adjustment component - I like the idea of providing them inline but my general philosophy here (which seems different from yours in my mind) was to create a single flow very similar to a regular article one would see in any print media but with as many opportunities for proactive additional engagement as possible. I absolutely love your website and the style and voice it has, though it more leans towards the encyclopedic, mind map, interconnected side of things. That's a distinctly different vision than what I was going for here. Thanks for reading!
Your website is wild. I am going to explore it a lot more later because there are a few more concepts that have overlap with what I am working on (like a personal kind-of wiki that I use to organize information I come across). I wanted to have a thing that grows alongside me over time and it seems very much like your website is that, but in your clearly unique way.
Are your about personal and about website pages the best place to get introduced to (what feels like) your Gwerniverse?
I also agree that the adjusted value should be displayed and if you wanted to you could popover the original value.
I frequently visit your website to get design inspiration for my own. Thanks for being so detail-oriented and all your writing in general!
Edit: Actually, while I have you here: do you think that the modal popups for links (the ones that pop up when you hover on a link) should be a standard browser feature? I'd be curious to see if a web extension could replicate it more generally for all sites.
I was recently exploring fonts of the next decade from old Mac system 6-9 era on my still in progress personal blog site https://hankdoes.ai/design-system/
Thank you author for the font and the lovely dive into computing and type history!
I love when people make personal websites (seemingly) purely for themselves. The design of this website really reflects the perspective of the author in a way that was immediately apparent. I've never seen a website with a menu that large.
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