Your computer, from anywhere.
Why I built Yonder, by Vlad.
I design and build software, and I like to picture how people will interact with technology and artificial (super) intelligence in the near future. These days I talk to my agents more than I touch a mouse and keyboard.
Computers went from machines that filled a room, to desktops, to laptops that we carry everywhere. I believe the next step is a world where we no longer sit in front of them. I envision a day when we just talk to our computers, with our voice or whatever comes next, and almost nothing stands between what we want and what they do.
Yonder is how I live that way now, and I built it so you can too.
Reach your Mac from anywhere.
My Mac stays at home, but I reach it from wherever I am: a walk, a coffee shop or a hotel on the other side of the world. I believe distance shouldn’t matter between you and your own computer, and you shouldn’t need a special network to reach it.
The best interface is no interface.
I talk to my agents the way I’d talk to a friend, in my own words, and they get to work. To me, the best interface is the one you don’t notice, and for most of us that’s our own voice.
Think out loud.
My best ideas show up on a walk or in the car, half formed and out of order. I envision a day when every one of those thoughts has somewhere to go. Now I say them out loud as they come, the way I’d tell a friend or write in a journal, and my agents turn them into work.
Local first. Your computer stays yours.
Dots, Grok Bot and Muse run on servers that someone else owns, far from your files. I think your agents belong on your own Mac, at home with your files and your tools. It’s your machine, so you decide what leaves it.
Yonder is the link.
Yonder carries every message between your phone and your Mac. Each one is encrypted end to end, so only your own devices can read it, and that’s how it should be. I built it so that even I can’t read them.
Leave your desk. Keep your computer.