live mode
Where the term comes up
In this channel's material, live mode appears when Kieran experiments with voice-driven website feedback: he likes OpenAI's live mode — you just talk to the machine and it does the work — so the experiment is to build a live mode of its own: a website opens, you talk to it like a human, and while you're doing that, it fixes everything in the background.[^edd078ec-d05b-519d-bd92-9769eae6f9a1@826]
How it fits the workflow
The target scenario is the polishing phase — after the AI has done the work and you're refining it. It's convenient to see the result in front of you and just say, “move this, do it better, can you suggest a few options?”[^edd078ec-d05b-519d-bd92-9769eae6f9a1@804] Making it real, there's already a function to start the development server, plus a lightweight web server that binds and listens, streaming information from any website into the agent so the agent can take action on it.[^edd078ec-d05b-519d-bd92-9769eae6f9a1@1038] Live mode is also called out as exactly the right fit when the agent wakes up in polishing mode — doing design work live is the use case.[^edd078ec-d05b-519d-bd92-9769eae6f9a1@619]
- Live mode = real-time spoken interaction with an agent working in the background.- Used here for the polishing phase: talk, and the site is fixed while you speak.- Built on a server that listens and streams website info into the agent so it can act.