- Hi! I'm sure this is very cool, but want to know what this does before I try it. I typed in the chat: what does this do? Will you build me an agent behind a phone number I can chat with? And it tried to open up iMessage which I denied because IDK in the first place what this is.
by leonmoonen
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- This seems to be a wrapper around LangAgents that can be linked to iMessage. I would not say the agents "live in iMessage," rather that they interface through iMesssage.
You can find a bit more on what's (likely) behind this in the github repo: https://github.com/photon-hq/flux
(NB: the deployed version may not be exactly the same as the code in the repo)
by joshribakoff
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- I tried this and the flow is sketchy UX even if it’s probably not malicious. It opens Messages, has you send a code to a number they control, and that “verifies” you. Probably to multiplex many chats on one phone number. That’s not a takeover by itself (you’re not forwarding a bank/Apple 2FA), but it’s sketchy. It also doesn’t work. It said hello and stopped replying.
- I want to know what this is and what it does before I give it permissions.
- I asked it to build me a weather machine and it's responding to me like a teenager.
AI:
Authentication successful! Go back to the webpage to continue.
Me:
Hey!
AI:
yooo whats good!! u got any weather stuff u wanna chat about or just saying hi?
Me:
how’s the weather in New York City
AI:
ohh nah i don't have real-time data so i can't tell u the actual conditions rn! but if u check like weather.com or just search "nyc weather" u'll get the live stuff instantly
tho if u tell me whats goin on there rn i can get HYPED abt the atmospheric conditions!! like is it humid?? what's the pressure doin??
by johnneville
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- united has free messaging on their flights and i found myself using meta's ai chatbot via whatsapp a few times. it's system prompt forces it to ask me inane questions at the end of every action so i would be happy to switch to something else.
just tried making one using this and it initially was way too casual for me and i didn't like how it split responses into many messages but it's very responsive to my prompts to change its style.
- I asked it to build an app to track water consumption and medication. It can’t track anything. After logging “water consumption” and “taking medication” I asked it how much water I’d had and when I’d taken medication. It replied “mhm thats whats up” (like that - lowercase and no apostrophes)
Is that expected behaviour?
The tiresome bro-speak is very irritating but I’m maybe not the target audience.
- I get timeouts on the app. Not impressed, sorry.
by quietsegfault
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- There are many things named flux. It’s not a big deal for one more, but maybe a more unique, descriptive name would differentiate.
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