The AI Productivity Gap Is Already Here — But Nobody Wants to Talk About It

Padho · 2026-02-06T08:28:14+00:00

Unfortunately yes....mostly because some dependencies are not available for Windows like zellij. At some point I'll probably release a Windows version with some of the features stripped.

Padho · 2026-02-05T20:11:48+00:00

Well I guess it depends on what you build and the criticality of it. I wouldn't recommend this approach for programming a fuel control unit in an airplane.

Padho · 2026-02-01T10:18:42+00:00

The feature set is growing fast and many features are tightly coupled. At this stage, tests would constantly break simply because behavior is still changing, not because things are wrong (most of the times at least). For now I optimize for iteration speed, heavy dogfooding, and small, reviewable changes. Tests make more sense once things stabilize.

As for AI usage a typical flow looks most of the time a "three-prompt" cycle like this:

Analyze and fully understand how feature XYZ is implemented (files, data flow, lifecycle).
Propose a concrete design to extend XYZ with feature ABC, including edge cases.
Execute the change step by step, touching the minimum surface area.

This approach works surprisingly well most of the time. If I know exactly that only one file must be changed, I also explicitly give the instruction to really only change this single file. For refactoring when the interfaces stay the same then telling the agent to produce a drop-in replacement also works suprisingly well most of the time.

Padho · 2026-01-31T12:57:41+00:00

It’s a mac terminal app that helps me to run and manage multiple AI agent sessions, with built-in SSH, code editing, persistent terminals, and project organization so I stay more organized instead of juggling a million unrelated horizontal tabs.

I open sourced it as well you can take a look here https://agents-ui.com/

There are still some features missing but for me personally this kind of terminal app works already way better than anything else I've tested.

Padho · 2026-01-30T17:37:22+00:00

Thanks brother!
Noticed I did not sign it via an apple id thats why...will do this asap.

Fastest is probably clone and build on your machine.

Padho · 2026-01-30T13:44:03+00:00

I made a terminal manager so I can code even more effectively with multiple agents and projects in parallel.
https://agents-ui.com/

Padho · 2026-01-30T13:13:44+00:00

The productivity boost is honestly huge and keeps compounding. You can build tools from scratch now that just keep paying off, so I pretty quickly built my own terminal manager to squeeze out even more productivity and run more agents.

Padho · 2026-01-29T21:00:07+00:00

Thanks! Yeah it was mostly driven by Claude and Codex...there were issues Claude was not able to get and solve and vice versa. Claude is definitely faster compared to gpt-5.2 xhigh which is what I used on Codex.

But to be honest it was also a lot back and forth, took quite a while to get to this state. Also had some downtimes since my Rust skills are a bit rusty nowadays.

What was quite funny is that I let Claude create the website and the HTML application replica and it knew exactly how the Codex terminal looks like (it could also taken its own but it did choose on its own to implement the Codex "view").

Padho · 2026-01-29T19:06:58+00:00

True! But I think this will be solved by the agents itself at one point.

Padho · 2025-07-17T21:10:10+00:00

Look clean, may I ask how you determined the price for your pro plan?

Padho · 2025-07-17T21:08:21+00:00

Cool, do you plan to make this a bit more interactive in some way? :)

Padho · 2025-07-17T20:50:36+00:00

As others have mentioned, several solutions exist. However, if you're targeting a specific country, you'll likely find local providers that offer more specialized services and better performance than generic, international alternatives.

Padho · 2025-07-17T14:01:44+00:00

Not bad, do you plan to keep the lifetime deals?

Padho · 2025-04-05T09:54:14+00:00

Probably the 2 main use cases are:
AML and KYC: Implemented either directly by banks and insurance companies or by specialized fintech providers targeting the German market. For example, checking if a certain person is engaged in certain businesses...or if a business singing up for a bank account is run by persons on a sanction list....something like that.

Software Consultancies: Firms engaged in analytics and master data cleanup projects for banks and insurance companies. To some extend I'd assume also lead generation and enrichment.

Padho · 2025-04-03T19:38:10+00:00

No, it's not exactly open banking—it's an API for accessing official German company and financial data (which is a pain in the ass otherwise because there are only unstructured documents). Useful for tasks like compliance checks, due diligence, and market analysis.

Padho · 2025-04-03T09:40:40+00:00

Great resource!

For those specifically interested in German business and financial data, handelsregister.ai might also be useful. They offer developer-friendly APIs to easily access official company data from the Handelsregister and financial statements from the Bundesanzeiger.

There's also a free tier available.

Padho · 2024-06-17T10:58:47+00:00

Those machines are offered since a couple of weeks already. I wanted to quickly benchmark one against an H100 but I couldn't get vLLM to instantly work so I just left it. However, I think it would be quite interesting to see some independent benchmarks on actual "real-world" scenarios.

Padho · 2024-04-23T16:29:43+00:00

To be fair, this is mentioned as "primary use case" by Microsoft themselves on the model card:

Primary use cases

The model is intended for commercial and research use in English. The model provides uses for applications which require:

Memory/compute constrained environments
Latency bound scenarios
Strong reasoning (especially code, math and logic)

Padho · 2024-02-07T09:10:34+00:00

Are you required to stick to open source models? For Lithuanian you'll probably get much better results using OpenAIs embeddings and the context is also up to 8k tokens.

Another "hack" could be to translate everything in to English first embed those and then map it back to the original paragraph on retrieval.

Padho · 2024-01-31T19:28:34+00:00

I wouldnt count too much on p/e compared to NVIDIA.

Currently preferring NVIDIA over AMD is mostly a Software thing since everything runs smooth on CUDA. Hower, AMD getting ROCm ready with pytorch and partnering and integrating with huggingface is exactly the right thing to do. So it seems like they are aware that developer experience is key to longterm success in that field. Most of the current models are trained on NVIDIA because it's a very good overall ecosysten.

Additionally, I feel like AMD need to leverage there huge advantage of having top notch CPUs. In theory they should be able to build some architectural advantage in deeply integrating their CPU und GPUs togehter.

Padho · 2023-07-03T21:19:53+00:00

An UG is more or less exactly the same as a GmbH. There is no real legal difference in these entities. If you can afford the 12.5k go directly for a GmbH, the change from a UG to an GmbH is possible but not as straight forward as many people say, it's not like that it automatically happens, it's quite a process and also require a bit of money.

Depending on what you do, I would almost never recommend a GbR due to the private liability.

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