I programmed this mini-keyboard to have GPT-4 automatically complete various tasks for me. Here’s an example for AI-powered coding.

This just came in so barely starting to experiment with it. Interested to see where I prefer key-based macros compared to audio-based work as demonstrated below. Both seem to have a place.

Reminder that computers are way more powerful than you think and there are endless possibilities if you just learn a little bit of Python

Also - technology should be enjoyed. Tinker for the sake of tinkering. It’s fun. Life’s fun. Enjoy it.

Btw commenting is one of the best ways to help LLMs do meaningful work in your files. I’ve completely changed my programming style to be more LLM friendly. Just going to toss that out there - highly recommend.

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You were a few more random clicks away from conjuring AGI...

That is for off camera only

Hey McKay, You would love this

Can confirm that I do in fact love this! I’m a huge huge fan of anything and anyone tinkering with AI - especially when it involves hardware!

I am so glad that someone I admire so much actually liked my project. After taking inspiration from your tweet, I setup a whisper voice support in my own system and I talk to it all day( I use claude + sourcegraph search for code talk)

I think very highly of the Sourcegraph team. Open sourcing Cody was a significant gift to devs - they deserve a huge amount of credit. The Codewand VS Code extension’s UI is heavily influenced by it!

@arafatkatze you are welcome for showing you sourcegraph

@mckaywrigley Alright I will do that

custom keyboard button = cool committing comments that useless = fired

Was thinking of doing something similar but with AutoHotKey as a way to launch/trigger the script using my existing kb

Yeah the mini keyboard is a bit gimmicky but it’s a lot of fun haha

Why is this preferable to having traditional keyboard shortcuts?

The short answer is that it’s mostly not other than being more fun, the long answer is you can kind of bypass some bindings that are native to the apps you use to prevent shortcut confusion

@hnshah And it's great those keys don't have any labels. So you don't know which tasks you are triggering, We are all so brave here.

This is F’in cool!

best part is it’s just <$20 for some mini keys on Amazon and a lil’ Python and anyone can do it!

Can you share anymore detail on what your 6 macros are? Are they all about streamlining coding workflow?

Q&A, explanations, comments, writes, edits, deletes, etc. Once I get it in a stable state I’m just going to share it

@HaJongler it'd be cool if we could launch agents on @thisisfinedev like this. UX suggestion for the agent palette :)

I did this same thing! Only I used one of those StreamDecks with the physical buttons…soooo slick. Esp with the digital custom screen cap you can setup. This is next level. My coding is feeling futuristic.

Cool! Maybe this will become a norm to have custom AI macro hotkeys🔥

This is super interesting! Couldn’t something similar be created by supporting shortcuts like Ctrl+X/Y/Z at the OS level? Next version OS’s are going to be amazing.

6 buttons? I see room for further optimizations.

Question from a noob :). Do you send your code via api and receive back the reply which you then write to a file ? Or is it just using some sort of copilot function call within VScode ?

Custom classes... functions... or frameworks.. I see it. Good work!

Make a VSCode extension or a raycast style cmd+K UI for this with quick Vim-style keyboard shortcuts. Could then have a shortcut to open a chat window or whatever for longer feedback etc.

@AI_Tailored Blessed to live in the dawn of ai. Lots of fun!

Are you just keeping a python file running in the background listening for keyboard input? Then each tied to a specific prompt and will copy paste the output ?

In between you apple watch video and this. ❤️ Seeing your vids where you tinker with AI.

I am a tinkerer that likes to be curious and have fun and experiment before all else :)

Brilliant

or just use a shortcut...

Use a shortcut dude 😂

Actually prevents app-native shortcuts from getting triggered

Couldn't you jus make it a hotkey combo or something? Why have a separate keyboard thing? Can it be a dildo you sit on too and depending on which way you lean it runs the right macro? Future is here bros!

Not sure if I’ll ever be a true coder, but using chatgpt to code to create cool things has been so much fun

Curious to know what the other keys do?

lol, just saw this tweet about the problem of potential feedback loops in LLM training. And straight to GPT generators of comments in code xD

Very cool!

Savage!

Why not keyboard shortcuts?

Very cool. Now imagine no keypad and instead a voice interface. Touch interface is the way of the past. Voice interface is the future IMHO.

You could sell those

Love this, still don’t know how all these tinkerings get productized though, any hints?

that sucks

Cool - future would just be a push to prompt button that takes in spoken language. (E.g “comment code”)

@hnshah 👌

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