It Asked What to Type

“create an html form and fill it” came back as a question in 2486 milliseconds, and none of the html files on the desktop changed.

Savindu Thathsara, savithathsara.me. This is a Hearthlen note from the ThinkPad.

The question, then the fields

The sentence does not say what belongs in the boxes. The agent asked What should I type? and waited. The reply was “use the name Sam and the email [e-mail]”.

That second run took 18983 ms. It opened FeatherPad, saved /home/savindu/one-3.html, opened that file in Chromium, and typed the two answers. The file is:

<form> <input name=sam> <input name=email></form>

The page showed Sam in the first box and [e-mail] in the second. The window title was one-3.html - Chromium. The earlier run, which invented both values, is it wrote a form and filled it.

Going back to the bad step

Each action is numbered. After a save, the agent reads the first 200 characters of the file it just wrote. A form request whose file has no form tag means the typing step was the mistake. That step is dropped, FeatherPad is the window to open, and the line is written again. Two tries, then it says the page is still wrong.

A file that contained the words “not a form” pointed at step 3, the typing step, and the history went back to opening the editor. one-3.html was a form on the first try, so this run did not have to go back. The same hands still type an address the way they did in it typed the address itself. The next check is the same question spoken after “hey Hearthlen”.

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Savindu Thathsara builds practical AI and automation in London. This series is the public log of an offline AI operating system he is writing and learning at the same time.

• Site: https://savithathsara.me
• Email: [e-mail]
• DEV: https://dev.to/savinduthathsara