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He tells the AI 'this is bothering me' and his Linux desktop fixes itself

Opens the AI and says this is bothering me for Linux desktop rough edges; it fixes them in the background, documents changes, and pushes his configs and dotfiles to a private git repo.

How it works

  1. He opens the agent and says this is bothering me about a desktop rough edge
  2. It fixes them in the background
  3. Documents the changes and pushes his configs and dotfiles to his repo

Why it’s worth knowing

This is bothering me is a complete bug report now.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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