Keyboard-picking agent types at just 4.9 characters per second
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-22
ctjlewis demoed an agent that, each turn, only gets to choose among all the keys on a keyboard — typing at just 4.9 characters per second, far slower than LLMs. The author calls it a throwback to simpler times and admits it's not much use to talk to yet, more a fun experiment than a practical system.
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