@OnKnockers@varunram All “ceremonial grade” matcha in the US is just marketing. No such term exists in Japan. Compare the color of matcha brought over from Japan yourself vs anything you can find in most US stores. Very brown (oxidized/old).
It's not about what it did or didn't enable, it's about how it exposes the tech to new users. People said the same thing about Dropbox etc, that the tech already existed and it was nothing new. The point is that you can repackage existing tech in interesting ways that puts it within reach of more folks.
In this case, it was primarily exposing claude code to non devs, running the agent on a heartbeat (waking up regularly to think), and also giving it permission to not respond at all in some cases (by allowing or encouraging an empty response as valid).
Regardless of it was novel technology, it opened up the eyes of hundreds of thousands of people (180k stars on gh already) to what is currently possible (albeit insecure), and that will drive further innovation and exploration on momentum alone.
@retirejapan_OG I get that they leaked data at some point, but you could probably say the same about nearly every gov service over a long enough period.
Drivers licenses were merged this year too (also optional). I'm sure both integrations will be mandatory within 5 years.