Andy Halliday
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Those are some of the hidden...
Hidden capabilities under the hood.
But once you add the Chrome extension, then I've found that Cloud Cowork and Cloud Desktop can take actions on the web for me.
And that's basically replaced Comet as a separate browser that has an agenda capability built into it.
That's from Perplexity, Perplexity Comet.
Let me just weave a little bit off of this cloud code conversation and say that they're one of the major players that's involved in the consortium of companies that's focusing on the MCP oriented agentic coding kind of approach to code.
agentifying or automating the interwebs is a company called Block, which has the payment system Square.
And they've released Goose, which is a free open source coding agent that runs locally and can use multiple LLMs.
So you would have to use APIs, I think.
But I haven't tried Goose yet.
So it includes OpenAI's models, Anthropix models, and DeepSeek.
So you have a selection of models there while using it.
And it lets developers, like you're doing with Cloud Code, automate coding tasks and build apps through prompts without having to pay a subscription fee.
And so those of you who are thinking about going to Claude Code, I still heartily encourage you to support Anthropic in its noble approach to the AI internets and pay 20 bucks a month to have access to Claude Pro account.
And in that, then you get everything that we've been describing here as well.
But if you're really trying to economize or you're interested and curious, go check out Goose.
I haven't done it myself, but Goose is making some waves out there as an alternative to cloud code.
And it's just been released as a free open source coding engine.