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MatthewPhillipstoday at 11:19 AM2 repliesview on HN

Please keep in mind that CLIs do not run on mobile and never will. This is the elephant in the room that nearly everypne seems to be ignoring. This "debate" is built around the assumption that AI is only for at-your-desk work. It's obviously not. Having the ability to mix/match the services you use for everything in your life, whether that's email or social networks or managing your book collection, is going to be a normal thing everyone does in the future. It's just not today, because AI companies are almost exclusively focused on the programming use-case (and related desk job stuff).


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mhalletoday at 11:57 AM

CLIs do work on mobile when they are packaged in skills that run in an appropriate VM behind the LLM.

Claude on the web does this. The only issue is controlling network access, which could be fixed by per-skill ACLs.

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falcor84today at 11:27 AM

> CLIs do not run on mobile and never will

Can you clarify why the never? What's the issue with giving a phone-based AI a sandboxed file system and bash shell?

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