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Duet is the future of chatbot interaction

https://fig.blue/posts/duet-is-the-future/
28•nathanfig•3h ago

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andix•36m ago
Note to everyone writing blog posts: Please start your post with one or two sentences explaining what you're posting about.

What is Duet? I have no idea even after skimming the article.

Edit: first google result is https://www.duetdisplay.com

user-•33m ago
The first two sentences menthon anthropic so its this. https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-duet
vineyardmike•32m ago
Well the start the article saying they're not affiliated with Anthropic, and then talk about "Duet", saying "anthropic has done it again". They then list a handful of products they've tried, including "a host of other personal-assistant-type harnesses".

Is it not obvious that this is an Anthropic-made "personal-assistant-type harnesses"?

https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-duet

vorticalbox•32m ago
It’s an Anthropic product not yet released. I think.

https://duet.so/

MaxLeiter•30m ago
That is not the official anthropic link

https://claude.com/resources/articles/claude-duet

thisisnotauser•33m ago
Every time I see an article about another agentic harness all I can think is "people still run other people's code?"

In all seriousness, the complaints here just feel like UI friction you can address yourself if you just build your own harness (e.g. snappy replies -> parallel threads and appending to common context).

scottyah•20m ago
I think it's more cron jobs, RESTful-type wait and react methods, and a harness that is calibrated to being a good assistant.

i.e. It saw I had an optometry-type appointment this morning and supplied some questions I might want to ask or consider.

infecto•14m ago
It is just rsync after all right?
aliasxneo•31m ago
I have to agree. I've been using it for a few days now after coming from GrokBot, then Muse, then Dots. None really clicked for me within the first day. Duet seems different. I haven't quite pegged it, but off the top of my hand:

1. Yes, channels really are useful

2. It does seem to be using Opus 5.5 behind the scenes because, shockingly, it's not screwing everything up like the others usually did

3. Agree that the answers are short and to the point. If you want more info, you just pop open whatever task (separate from channels) it started and you can see what it's doing.

Seems like more time in the oven might have paid off here.

Also, to be clear, this is purely used as a personal assistant by me. I still use omp+Paseo for all of my day to day work. I find the separation of concerns kind of nice.

xnx•26m ago
[Anthropic Claude] Duet is the future of chatbot interaction
imagetic•21m ago
I'm amazed anyone on HN is willing to run Muse that isn't a FB employee or tech journalist.
meowface•10m ago
I don't trust Facebook or Zuckerberg, but I also don't really care about my own personal privacy from large corporations. I will use whatever is best/cheapest, generally. And I say this as someone who hates advertising and adtech.
cautiouscat•5m ago
Or GrokBot that isn’t an Elon employee.
dgellow•21m ago
Sounds like things the competition will copy in a few days? Or am I missing something?
bluecalm•7m ago
The killer feature is having the best model behind it. Not so easy to copy. Grok Bot tries to compete with a really good harness/infra and the team is doing a great job but having Grok as a model behind id is a huge disadvantage.
ActionHank•20m ago
I dunno, Hermes has been real hard to beat lately.

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Duet is the future of chatbot interaction

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