Comment by MatthewPhillips

7 hours ago

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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mhalle  6 hours ago

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.

  • MatthewPhillips  5 hours ago

    Walk me through how a user installs and then uses these CLIs from their mobile phone.

    • mhalle  3 hours ago

      Create a skill that has the CLI in the scripts sub-directory. The implementation language depends on the LLM and the VM it uses. Claude includes shell, python, and a bunch of other interpreters in a Linux environment.

      A skill's instructions can direct the LLM to call the CLI.

      Claude skills can be installed into Claude web from a web browser. Those skills can then run on the Claude app on your phone.

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falcor84  6 hours ago

> 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?