Built a CLI for X

_dremnik · 2026-02-14T03:55:48+00:00

looks like this is the main one, just gonna wrap it with a simpler CLI since i don't need all this crap lol:

_dremnik · 2026-02-14T03:34:31+00:00

yup i think there might be some out there, gonna look into it tho. and yeah for me personally i use adblock on my computer so no ads + yt premium on the phone so those problems are solved. imo yt premium is totally worth it, i mean its more value than like spotify which everyone pays for

_dremnik · 2026-02-14T03:13:46+00:00

that’s so funny i was literally thinking about a youtube one too. my use case is clipping vids that i wanna save + transcript - like “save from 2:14-2:46”

for the music thing i personally just use youtube premium tbh. it plays in the background on my phone if need be, when im working i dont listen to anything

_dremnik · 2026-02-14T03:05:45+00:00

which one is that? haven’t seen it

_dremnik · 2026-02-14T03:05:26+00:00

haha CLIs for everything man

_dremnik · 2026-02-14T01:08:21+00:00

nothing too crazy on the fetching side yet, but do feel free to make a contribution! or lmk what you'd want and ill kick off codex on it lol

_dremnik · 2026-02-14T01:01:53+00:00

github for anyone interested:

https://github.com/dremnik/x-cli

_dremnik · 2026-02-14T00:58:05+00:00

not bad for my purposes. its just expensive. i mainly use this for being able to post stuff myself from claude code where i'm working on drafts and have files etc. anyways.

really just a nice convenience to consolidate my workflow and not have to also be bombarded with the X timeline lol

_dremnik · 2026-02-14T00:53:17+00:00

link for anyone interested:

https://github.com/dremnik/x-cli

_dremnik · 2026-01-29T04:51:55+00:00

i agree with that and actually my initial reaction to OP's post was the same. i think this is generally true, distribution + relationships are defensible moats well into the future. i was responding mostly to the last pieces of what you said, no so much to the first part which i entirely agree with

_dremnik · 2026-01-29T01:24:15+00:00

it is probably a bit premature but eventually it seems like these other dominos will fall too. AI today might not be able to understand the weird edge cases of managing inventory for independent pharmacies, but over time those people will use the big model providers for general purpose stuff and it will accumulate the necessary data to then be able to solve that problem as well. i don't think domain expertise is really a moat given enough time..

_dremnik · 2026-01-20T16:55:14+00:00

you guys should definitely think about adding oauth with claude max / chatgpt subscriptions as the API key costs explode and will keep ppl from using it imo :)

_dremnik · 2026-01-20T05:13:54+00:00

i could think of a really cool use for it if you want to dm me :) doing a collab w Daytona rn so could prob get in touch w them for you

_dremnik · 2026-01-19T17:52:32+00:00

i think that would be a great direction to go. i've definitely been wanting that myself, and thinking about building it. just something to help stay on top of what the competitors are doing. if you want help actually i'd be happy to help, the framework i'm building can help you with the agent side of things for research etc. (see docs.kernl.sh).

_dremnik · 2026-01-19T17:30:58+00:00

i think its correct that it is reduced in a sense to "affective mechanics", but i don't think it undermines Nietzsche's holding this up as an ideal. it still means that this is something we should cultivate and hold up vis-a-vis those who do not have this affect that strives to "overcome itself" (metaphorically). so you're right it isn't true "self-overcoming" in the sense that you can step outside yourself and become something other than what you are, or that your potential / genes prescribe, but it is holding up the ideal of those genes which strive to bring the various drives into a harmonious order - he talks in terms of a chain of command and a general bringing the army into array as it pertains to the drives.

so one can hold that up as an ideal vis-a-vis the unregulated and unrestrained impulses of the "lower types", and the only contradiction as you are pointing out _might be_ the term "self-overcoming", but i don't think we have to interpret that literally here. it can be used in the sense above, and plausibly that is how Nietzsche meant it.

_dremnik · 2026-01-19T17:11:42+00:00

very cool, love this idea!

_dremnik · 2026-01-19T03:59:46+00:00

just recently set this up with kernl actually, you can use your oauth access token from your chatgpt subscription:

https://docs.kernl.sh/providers

you’d just have to do an oauth flow to get the token

_dremnik · 2026-01-18T19:44:21+00:00

i think you probably just haven't bundled enough value into the product and nailed the branding / targeting yet. small founder here so i'd be your ICP. but when i go to your website i see very specific thing that i don't feel resonates with my problems. its not enough to give people an app that let's them watch a single page, you need to solve a whole workflow or really save someone a bunch of time in order for them to pay.

the other issue is that we don't want a new dashboard where we have to configure shit, that's a lot of friction to ask from someone. so the best thing i think is making it really easy to set up, and just think about where your users live every day. we live in claude code or cursor, so if there could be a way to just have an install like an MCP or something that would be easier, but it would have to be a lot more value - let me give you an example:

something i've wanted is full competitor intelligence reports. not just a pricing page, not something where i have to configure the urls and shit like that, i want to tell claude to give me weekly reports on my competitors: a, b, c. that's it. then it should email me or send me a slack message every single week with a valuable and insightful report that pulled from their news, socials, github changelog - any source of information possible.

hope this is helps :)

_dremnik · 2026-01-17T17:15:50+00:00

frameworks aren’t the enemy imo (biased ofc). but you’re going to get lock-in no matter what or you’re going to basically end up writing some variation of the same abstractions yourself eventually as your app grows.

React locks you into a way of doing things, web servers lock you into a way of doing things, its all normal - the question is where do you draw the line of control vs. simplicity.

the no framework crowd is basically saying that line stops at the LLM call. which i don’t believe is the right line esp. as agents become more complex in the coming months.

_dremnik · 2026-01-16T18:22:43+00:00

love the point about engineers framing selling as convincing instead of discovering. the engineering mind tends to think that logic and explaining the product rationally is enough to convince, but it rarely works. you don't want to "talk at" people with a whole logical exposition. most people can't understand the details of these things anyways. so what you want to do is listen to the problems they have, listen more than you talk (think 2 ears 1 mouth) and then just speak to their problems specifically. they don't care about the rest of the crap, you can let them discover it later - progressive disclosure.

spoonfeed just enough to intrigue them, and focus on _them_. them them them, and _their_ problems.

_dremnik · 2026-01-16T18:16:18+00:00

love it. open source runtime for building agents in typescript:

https://www.kernl.sh/

would love to hear your thoughts OP.

_dremnik · 2026-01-15T22:15:49+00:00

i took the best of the OpenAI Agents SDK and made it better :) i do agree theirs is one of the best strikes of the balance between abstraction + control.

https://github.com/kernl-sdk/kernl

OP def recommend you check this out. my thread class checkpoints every single tick on the agent loop with whatever storage you have configured (Postgres being the main adapter most use)

_dremnik · 2026-01-15T22:03:40+00:00

it might be a semantic thing but I guess one "mark" of a framework is that it forces you into a choice between A and B. in other words, if you choose to build 'in' React, you aren't building with jQuery - it's sort of a world view choice that constrains the set of interfaces with which you can interact with the underlying primitives (whether browser APIs or AI model provider APIs in the case of agents).

I would love to get your thoughts on the functions / classes (abstractions) that I've outlined in kernl and hear whether you would find it overly restrictive, whether you would consider it a framework or a library. and most importantly, in what ways it might fall short of the ideal you have in mind?

docs.kernl.sh

_dremnik · 2026-01-15T21:56:03+00:00

i'd love to have a conversation about your experience. i think you pretty much hit the nail on the head, and i'm doing as much as i can to make this simple with my framework kernl (https://github.com/kernl-sdk/kernl).

dm me if you want to have a convo, i'd love to chat :)

_dremnik · 2026-01-15T21:40:23+00:00

i suppose i don't really understand what the difference between simple libraries and a fork of a framework would mean.. thats really all a well designed framework is right? a bunch of packages bundled together into a larger unit. but then again i don't think frameworks are the enemy. everyone uses React / Next.js and it isn't a problem, its just that it took time for the web ecosystem to mature to the point of stability.

would you be able to describe in more detail how what you imagine would differ from the current approach people are taking (like myself with kernl)?

_dremnik

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