What would deeper AI integration on the Ubuntu desktop look like? Well, you don't need to think too hard to find out. A Canonical engineer has published a

A Canonical engineer has published a prototype launcher that simulates how on-device AI could be used to enhance and aid users of the Ubuntu desktop.

But the warty-prototype1 snap by Didier Roche-Tolomelli (aka didrocks) is not a real launcher. It’s a semi-interactive, automated mockup. It simulates things a user could do, and that includes interacting with a (theoretical) on-device AI model to complete tasks.

  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 days ago

    Yes the harness is what i was talking about.

    You can get footguns also from your own cli commands, misunderstanding the documentation, or by copy/pasting from a guide without knowing what you’re doing. But in both those cases it is clearer that it is your responsibility for understanding the context. And eventually that’s how you learn.

    A generative, agentic system that does things for you without you needing to understand, and gets it right a lot of the time, but trains the user to enter the sudo password wihout understanding is not the UX I would encourage in an operating system.