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landr0id 22 minutes ago [-]
If anyone is looking at this thinking it looks pretty and wants to check out Work Louder's keyboards, let me save you the time. Their keyboards must be made by designers who do not type much because they are both not pleasant to type on and not very high-quality.
The Nomad [E] might be one of the worst keyboards I've ever purchased, and I owned one of the original butterfly switch MacBooks.
dgemm 2 minutes ago [-]
Never heard of work louder, but it sounds like an idea I used to joke with coworkers about, around making a clickly keyboard with an amplifier and speaker to passive-aggressively demonstrate how annoying the clicky keyboards are in a high density office environment.
hmokiguess 3 minutes ago [-]
I was interested in their knob1, and, if you go to their website today it still says pre-order with shipping in August 2025 (stuck in the past), at this point I accepted it's vaporware [1]
After a few minutes on the site, I have no clue what this is for. A keyboard that interacts with Codex? That’s just a software feature, why am I paying $230 for hotkeys?
Strom 3 minutes ago [-]
Special purpose keyboards can make sense (see e.g. music editing keyboards with sliders and volume knobs), but I'm with you that in this case the website totally fails at making a case for it.
GaggiX 5 minutes ago [-]
It's an overpriced macropad.
paxys 2 hours ago [-]
This is a rebranded/reskinned WORK LOUDER Creator Micro 2 btw (https://worklouder.cc/creator-micro-2). Great device if you're into expensive tech toys (a la Teenage Engineering), but if you were waiting for a big OpenAI hardware reveal sorry to disappoint.
I want very hard to agree with you but then I remember elgato has built a very successful business from a 8/12/16/... Macro keyboard for streamers so what do I know.
iammrpayments 31 minutes ago [-]
This is pretty hilarious. Guess people forgot how to use PCs and can only prompt now.
plutomeetsyou 20 minutes ago [-]
Someday my kid is going to ask me why we need 79 keys on a keyboard if we only use "accept" and "accept all".
jawns 2 hours ago [-]
It's not clear why this physical object is a better solution to the problem than, say, a window on your screen. Feels like more of a hobby project than something that provides $230 of value.
vel0city 2 hours ago [-]
I know a lot of people who really like things like the Stream Deck. This seems similar to that kind of a concept. I'd probably take the Stream Deck over this though, its a good bit cheaper and each button has a little screen on it. Having some physical knobs is an interesting twist on it though.
I am surprised they released this. Who is the audience for this? You can DIY this yourself surely.
nolok 19 minutes ago [-]
The people who cannot DIY? There are a surprisingly large number of people who "code" in codex while being completely unable to write a single line of code themselves. Not that I approve, I think this will end in disaster (security or otherwise) and llm shines as a force multiplier not as a replacement, but I've long learned what's correct is not always what's selling.
koe123 6 minutes ago [-]
By that same logic I think OpenAI should get into the burger business for those who cannot cook.
antfarm 15 minutes ago [-]
I don't understand the many Teenage Engineering references in this thread, this design has no soul.
I'm curious who the target audience is. As a developer I already spend all day at my keyboard, so I'm not yet convinced dedicated hardware is faster than a desktop app. I'd love to hear from people who've actually used it.
hectdev 2 hours ago [-]
As someone with a few unused Teenage Engineering things. The real answer is probably rich tech people who love having things that make people say "I'm not sure who the target audience is".
pantulis 5 minutes ago [-]
The TE reference is strong!
hellohello2 5 minutes ago [-]
Its completely pointless yet I still want it. IDK, its the status lights that look fun.
pwython 2 hours ago [-]
I set up an old Stream Deck to do the same thing. I stopped using it after a few days. This design looks great though, status lights are a nice touch. YouTube vibe coders will love it, traditional devs will keep MacGyvering their own toys.
flyingcircus3 1 hours ago [-]
I see it as another iteration of the wave that had everyone controlling agents directly from a chat app like slack. It isn't actually a more effective way to reach flow state, exchange information faster, and move your development projects forward to greater success, its simply a novel, oddly satisfying input mechanism, at least for the first day.
Which is no different than when the iphone first came out, the basic concept of touch screens was endlessly novel as an input and output device. That novelty did a lot more heavy lifting than what we can now see in hindsight was appropriate, because now many of us won't be able to control the temperature in our cars after the touch screen fails.
I think its the same underlying mechanism that explains why I, a person who has never recorded or mixed audio in a studio, and a person who can know for certain that purchasing a 24 channel mixing console isn't going to faclilitate my career change or even hobby development. But part of me is still viscerally certain that my life would be fuller if I purchased a 24 channel mixing console.
I don't need a legitimate reason to own a tool, or a problem I would fix with it, to fantasize about using that tool.
johntash 2 hours ago [-]
The keyboard community maybe? I think these little macro pads are neat, but I don't have a real use for them either.
notatoad 2 hours ago [-]
i'm guessing the primary market for these will be free gifts to enterprise customers at sales meetings.
delusional 2 hours ago [-]
And you would need to spend your day at your keyboard for this to be useful anyway. It's just an input device.
hyperhello 2 hours ago [-]
My first reaction is WTF. My second reaction isn't here yet.
ithkuil 2 hours ago [-]
My second reaction is: ah is this what the stolen IP from apple fuss was all about?
My first reaction isn't here yet
jujugoboom 20 minutes ago [-]
First question; if theres a knob to adjust thinking level, and I can switch between agents, what if I turn down the knob for one agent and switch to another? Do I just insta-lobotomize it?
throwaway613746 16 minutes ago [-]
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steve1977 2 hours ago [-]
A quarter RGB keyboard for the price of half a MacBook Neo? Yeah this will sell like hot cakes...
arjie 1 hours ago [-]
It’s $230 vs. $699? That’s almost exactly a third, not half.
paxys 2 hours ago [-]
It isn't meant to sell like hot cakes. Work Louder is the keyboard equivalent of Teenage Engineering. They make expensive toys for silicon valley engineers.
steve1977 2 hours ago [-]
So work louder is the new work smarter?
lrae 60 minutes ago [-]
And very fitting in this case, too, with everybody having to use voice input. :)
Havoc 5 minutes ago [-]
They made a streamdeck?!?
cm2187 13 seconds ago [-]
This is more expensive than a streamdeck. The streamdeck has LCD keys you can customize dynamically.
Sidio 7 minutes ago [-]
This was not worth getting sued by Apple
hyperbovine 8 minutes ago [-]
Is it April already?
Waterluvian 20 minutes ago [-]
Wait. This is only a keyboard?! For how much?!
ihuman 17 minutes ago [-]
If you think that's expensive, don't fall down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole. There's no upper limit on how much they can be
Waterluvian 10 minutes ago [-]
Oh for sure. It’s like Monster cables or audiophile stuff or other luxury goods. It’s entirely irrational. Though some people badly need it to be framed as perfectly rational.
dwa3592 18 minutes ago [-]
Why isn't there a video of it?
mcrk 11 minutes ago [-]
Is it compatible with Apple cloth though?
volkk 2 hours ago [-]
on one hand...this looks cool/teenage engineering-esque. on the other...engineers have been infantilized forever now but this is a new level. it feels like my career has been dwindled down to ... what? a few colors and like 5 buttons? reminds me of something out of idiocracy a bit. just need a button that orders a nice juicy hamburger for me during my lunch break.
but jokes aside, I suppose you can look at this being sort of like a numpad in addition to your main keyboard so I see the point of this gimmicky thing
f3408fh 2 hours ago [-]
With that lens your career before this device was a few colors and 104 keys?
addedGone 2 hours ago [-]
Programming is basically now playing with some keystrokes and joysticks :p
they would prefer that you never words type manually again
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injidup 2 hours ago [-]
I checked the date but no.
vatsachak 10 minutes ago [-]
Literally just keymaps
2 hours ago [-]
jgbuddy 32 minutes ago [-]
8th openai product named codex btw
FuckButtons 27 minutes ago [-]
Given that their initial product was called ChatGPT I’m not sure that anyone should expect them to be able to name anything remotely sensibly.
Romario77 28 minutes ago [-]
what happened to the Jonny Ive and them purchasing his agency?
6.5 billions paid, nothing so far, this was such a sus transaction, sounded like the way to get money out of OpenAI.
jpalomaki 19 minutes ago [-]
"OpenAI will launch a portable, screen-free smart speaker as its first consumer hardware product, Bloomberg News has reported, days after Apple sued the AI start-up and two former employees of the iPhone maker for trade-secret theft." [1]
Looks fun, but I don't quite understand this product:
- Do the buttons map to configurable skills / prompts?
- Is it meant to be used remotely with some independence (like codex remote), or is it a peripheral like a trackpad?
varjag 2 hours ago [-]
We're rapidly approaching the Jetsons one button workplace territory.
gervwyk 2 hours ago [-]
I thought this was an aprils fools joke. Then i realized it’s July..
tanseydavid 2 hours ago [-]
How long before someone shows a hobby project with a robotic arm and computer vision controlling one of these?
I am only half-joking.
dofm 44 minutes ago [-]
This device should have been a blog post about how you can make this device with an Arduino/Pico and a 3D printer and Codex.
LudwigNagasena 2 hours ago [-]
Looks like a novelty item made with the purpose of testing their hardware production capabilities before producing a real product.
Also, translated pages transform newlines into \n.
quacky_batak 2 hours ago [-]
I like the teenage engineering style, but is that the hardware that they were stealing Apple secrets for?
jdw64 20 minutes ago [-]
I want to make my frontend look clean and pretty like this too.
The developers who build OpenAI's UI seem really skilled.
fwlr 2 hours ago [-]
Post a picture of one of these with the “X” key conspicuously removed and you’d probably get a repost from Sam
qwertytyyuu 2 hours ago [-]
We march ever closer to the cntl c v keyboard!
__mharrison__ 2 hours ago [-]
Where's the Stream Deck emulation layer?
guluarte 3 minutes ago [-]
"Hey Codex, help me design the most useless hardware you can think of"
inferhaven 2 hours ago [-]
Lol this is trippy, although not sure how much use I really would get outta this thing
bertili 2 hours ago [-]
AGI is almost here, but first, one more thing... a keyboard controller!
zuzululu 14 minutes ago [-]
i guess this is cool if you are going to expense it as a business but $250 is insane. I'm going to wait for the temu version with the usual hidden mic and phone-home feature
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dvduval 2 hours ago [-]
Presentation is not clear to me. How is it superior to using my keyboard?
throwaw12 2 hours ago [-]
Is this the reason OpenAI decided to steal Apple hardware secrets?
Regardless, device looks nice
zitterbewegung 2 hours ago [-]
Would think they would be doing it for their own hardware device for chatgpt not for developers.
alwillis 58 minutes ago [-]
> Is this the reason OpenAI decided to steal Apple hardware secrets?
Of course not.
robotswantdata 2 hours ago [-]
Ordered. Not sure will beat my streamdeck modules, but YOLO
mrnotcrazy 2 hours ago [-]
This is the lamest possible implementation, exactly what I would expect from openAI. Nothing about it is interesting or unique or really leverages the power of LLMs to make a new experience.
2 hours ago [-]
numbers 2 hours ago [-]
wow, great partnership for Work Louder but man, I have a micropad from work louder, it's basically just a weird layout for a macropad.
kylemaxwell 2 hours ago [-]
Pretty sure I could just vibe code this with my old Elgato Stream Deck. As a bonus, it wouldn't become eminently useless if I swap to any other model provider.
ofjcihen 2 hours ago [-]
Is this the moat?
Aboutplants 2 hours ago [-]
Wow, they are going to sell dozens of these!
chronogram 2 hours ago [-]
So it's like a more limited Streamdeck.
rvz 2 hours ago [-]
It's just a keyboard.
Nothing to see here.
cphoover 2 hours ago [-]
Seems a bit silly (especially given how easy LLM's make building such an accessory)
LetsGetTechnicl 2 hours ago [-]
$230 for essentially a fancy numpad that's only useful for one tool? Welcome to the AI revolution
onlyrealcuzzo 2 hours ago [-]
Is this the Jony Ive device?
It looks very sus like an Apple product.
joshstrange 2 hours ago [-]
It looks nothing like an Apple product and no, it's not part of the io/Ive partnership.
system2 2 hours ago [-]
Why not a Stream Deck? I own 3 stream decks, and they are incredibly useful. Not only for coding, but windows controlling, shortcuts for anything. And the best part is that there are small screens you can customize.
whalesalad 2 hours ago [-]
I ordered one because I lack impulse control.
Oras 2 hours ago [-]
I had to check the calendar as I thought it’s April fool. What’s the point of this? Isn’t that like the meme of stackoverflow keyboard?
2 hours ago [-]
niyazpk 54 minutes ago [-]
1. looks nice, want.
2. lol, why is this $230
adamrezich 2 hours ago [-]
> Flick the joystick to launch common Codex workflows like reviewing a PR, debugging an error, or refactoring code.
Uh… what?
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throwaway613746 16 minutes ago [-]
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mil22 2 hours ago [-]
Finally! Definitive, tangible, tactile proof that we're near the top of the bubble. /s
The Nomad [E] might be one of the worst keyboards I've ever purchased, and I owned one of the original butterfly switch MacBooks.
[1] https://worklouder.cc/knob1
https://marketplace.elgato.com/product/claude-code-usage-ea7...
I actually have this as a problem with Codex / Claude where I don't know if I have to make a decision .
It's got 20 keys, hot-swappable, and individually addressable RGB.
And for an FOSS printable one, https://github.com/Dwin17/bento
https://github.com/skorokithakis/macropad
https://immich.home.stavros.io/s/macropad
(assuming this meh partnership rebranding had his participation)
https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/stream-deck
https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/stream-deck-plus
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button#Purpose
Which is no different than when the iphone first came out, the basic concept of touch screens was endlessly novel as an input and output device. That novelty did a lot more heavy lifting than what we can now see in hindsight was appropriate, because now many of us won't be able to control the temperature in our cars after the touch screen fails.
I think its the same underlying mechanism that explains why I, a person who has never recorded or mixed audio in a studio, and a person who can know for certain that purchasing a 24 channel mixing console isn't going to faclilitate my career change or even hobby development. But part of me is still viscerally certain that my life would be fuller if I purchased a 24 channel mixing console.
I don't need a legitimate reason to own a tool, or a problem I would fix with it, to fantasize about using that tool.
My first reaction isn't here yet
but jokes aside, I suppose you can look at this being sort of like a numpad in addition to your main keyboard so I see the point of this gimmicky thing
6.5 billions paid, nothing so far, this was such a sus transaction, sounded like the way to get money out of OpenAI.
[1] https://techcentral.co.za/jony-ives-first-openai-device-an-a...
However, it really puts in perspective that a large part of my job has just become clicking a few buttons.
https://doioshop.com/products/doio-16-keys-programmable-mult...
This looks like it has LEDs but not a screen.
Any experience with https://www.eezbotfun.com/ or recommendations for something similar?
I am only half-joking.
Also, translated pages transform newlines into \n.
The developers who build OpenAI's UI seem really skilled.
Regardless, device looks nice
Of course not.
Nothing to see here.
It looks very sus like an Apple product.
2. lol, why is this $230
Uh… what?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ue5inx/i_built...