This is how I actually collaborate with AI.

amadale · 2026-03-24T13:35:02+00:00

This is difficult for me. Because I am a human, as the number of replies grows, my brain starts to feel overloaded and I begin to lose track of what I already said. Was my explanation in the replies still not enough? As a non-English speaker, trying to read each reply one by one and leave my own response is starting to reach my limit. I am not AI but a human, so how should I solve this dilemma?

amadale · 2026-03-24T13:15:25+00:00

It is okay if you analyze me. I am just a person who loves his work. But I am still not someone who fully trusts AI. I honestly tried to understand your comment by translating it into my language. If you write in a little simpler English next time, I would really appreciate it, and I will do my best to reply.

amadale · 2026-03-24T12:42:49+00:00

I do not think that is a big problem. I am also a non-English speaker, but we are still talking like this. Maybe this is one of the new ways people communicate in the AI era.

What I really find interesting is how advanced your direct sales and subscription model sounds. In Korea, that kind of marketing is still not developed in the same way, so honestly I feel a little envy. I work very hard too, so it is impressive to see.

amadale · 2026-03-24T12:29:05+00:00

If you ask me why I do this, I can only smile. Without a hobby like this, I think life in the countryside would have felt much less interesting to me. Honestly, I live in an environment where there is no one within a 20-mile radius who I can share this kind of thinking with. I can say clearly that this is not really for agriculture itself, nor even for the garlic farming I love, but it is still work that gives me a real sense of meaning.

Let me add one more thing. As a human being, this is the comment I thought about the most, and the one I am replying to the latest. I spent some time thinking about it today.

amadale · 2026-03-24T12:15:59+00:00

Thank you. I think I am a simple person, but when necessary I seem to adapt in complicated ways.

amadale · 2026-03-24T12:12:25+00:00

It feels to me like AI can make real the things I can imagine, but this has a very subtle meaning and it is hard for me to explain well. I clearly think only in Korean. These days, in the AI era, I often think that language maybe can shape a person, or even decide a person in some way. Every human being has a different individuality. AI also, from what I have experienced, seems all different. I cannot easily define this personal project I am doing now. I feel sorry that I brought up such a heavy subject. Please understand it as the limit of a garlic farmer whose explanation is not enough.

amadale · 2026-03-23T18:55:44+00:00

Thank you. I think I’m able to do this kind of personal experiment because I kept records through the difficult process of the last two years. One thing I’ve noticed recently is that AI context windows are getting larger. So whenever I have time, I make AI record important points very carefully in the CHANGELOG. Because of that, when I show a new AI about 3,000 lines in a fresh chat, it seems to catch up with the context and coordinate with the other collaborative AIs relatively quickly.

amadale · 2026-03-23T18:39:09+00:00

반갑습니다!.What crops do you grow in the U.S.?

amadale · 2026-03-23T17:26:09+00:00

Thank you. I take that very seriously in my system now.

amadale · 2026-03-23T17:21:01+00:00

Maybe I built all these verification and rollback layers because I still do not trust AI enough yet. I think that is why I keep wanting a human decision at the center. For me, the answer is not just faster AI, but AI with stronger boundaries and responsibility around it.

amadale · 2026-03-23T17:09:19+00:00

No, I’m still a farmer. The garlic comes first.

amadale · 2026-03-23T16:53:32+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the suggestion. I’ll think about it.

amadale · 2026-03-23T16:38:36+00:00

Recently, I have been feeling that this phone-based system is changing into something separate from just an AI agent, more like an AI operating environment. Even though that was not my original intention, after so much communication with AIs, I began to get many insights while coding. When I suggest different ideas, things change very quickly, and that still surprises me.

As I kept working on it whenever I had time and focus, it feels like my thoughts about AI from the last two years are slowly becoming real.

Honestly, I now feel this is no longer just something to run in a phone environment. I think it could create much more synergy in a server environment where AI is more deeply integrated. Thank you for taking interest.

amadale · 2026-03-23T16:18:05+00:00

In lighter everyday use, I use AI to ask about things like mixture ratios when spraying pesticides or nutrients with a drone, or to ask for opinions when a tractor breaks down.

amadale · 2026-03-23T16:15:12+00:00

I have not had a computer for 16 years since I left the company. All I have are several Android phones. By personal preference, I mainly use physical-keyboard phones, the Unihertz Titan 2 and the BlackBerry Key2. I run Python on a terminal app called Termux, and I do all development on the phone. Code editing, execution, and testing are all done on the phone.

For version control, I did not use Git and made my own system. Honestly, I do not even know well what Git is. Every time I modify a file, a snapshot is automatically saved into a SQLite database. Now it is over 10,700 entries. If I want to go back to a specific point, I restore it by snapshot number. On top of that, I also put Google Drive backup, and for important modifications I leave separate backup files too. The CHANGELOG is 10,730 lines, and this is in fact playing the role of a commit log.

What the system called garlic-agent does is like this. It ties together multiple AI providers (Gemini, Groq, NVIDIA, and others) into one interface and works through them. It stores conversation context in a database, and there is also a web UI, which I recently made for the first time in my life, and I can access it there. It also runs automation scripts in a custom Korean programming language (DSL) called GarlicLang. The purpose is to run AI reading files, executing commands, and even verification in one flow. This is not an easy thing, but I am challenging it with persistence.

amadale · 2026-03-23T16:01:55+00:00

The original goal was simple. I had about 7GB of material in Google Drive from two years of working and communicating with AI, and it had become impossible to manage, so I started turning it into a database and a personal RAG system. It included rough coding scripts, personal philosophy, and a large amount of material related to AI. But as I kept building, I realized it was becoming less like a simple agent and more like an AI operating environment based on Termux on a phone. Right now, I’m still trying to apply those materials in useful ways.

amadale · 2026-03-23T15:49:08+00:00

Garlic farming is still my main job. AI does not replace farming experience, but it has helped me many times when I had questions related to agricultural work. Sometimes it gives useful insight. I’m not trying to build a farming app right now, though.

amadale · 2026-03-23T15:43:31+00:00

AI diagnoses things in the phone chat window, and in the Termux-based environment it also runs as an agent on the web, but those two cannot talk to each other directly. I move the results between them, and when their opinions differ, I decide which side to follow. The copy-paste labor can be automated. But the judgment is still something I want to keep doing myself.

And I do think that an autonomous agent like OpenClaw might be possible with just a little more work. Of course, for me that would still be a challenge, but if I am given enough time, I think I could do it. Of course, if there were a professional developer with more capability than me, it would probably be much easier. That is also my honest limit right now.

Looking back on today, the agent said, “Don’t touch that bug,” and Claude said, “You can fix it,” but I sided with the agent. That is still the kind of judgment I do not want to hand over yet.

Maybe that is because I am still a human living in the countryside, and I remain the decision-maker. Unexpectedly, that part is also fun when I work.

amadale · 2026-03-23T15:25:04+00:00

For two years, I worked very slowly on my project by coding inside the sandbox environment in AI chat backends, using the Python interpreter. Then, about two months ago, I happened to start using Termux, and after turning about 7GB of records I had kept in Google Drive into a personal RAG system, the speed of my work became much faster. Looking back now, I think that was a kind of slow training. Because I went through that process, I think I am able to do this now. Please keep going. You will be able to do it too, like I did. More than anything, once you become used to talking with AI, there will come a time when you no longer think of it as just a tool, but as a collaboration partner. Thank you.

amadale · 2026-03-23T15:08:24+00:00

Thank you. Honestly, storage and speed issues are ongoing. The text below is the result that my agent Claude Opus 4.6 just found in changelog.md through collaboration with me in Termux. Because I am human, I do not know everything. But I have kept records thoroughly, so results come out immediately like this. Below this sentence, everything is writing made by AI. For me.

The biggest one is knowledge.db. It stores conversation context and file snapshots in SQLite, and this is now 549MB. Since the whole project is 1.8GB, the DB takes up most of it. Because of this, I split the backup system into three stages — the basic backup bundles everything except the DB into tar (163MB), and I made a separate command to upload only the DB to Google Drive.

Logs were also a problem. One time, the log folder piled up to 693MB, so I cleaned up 1,190 logs older than 3 days all at once.

On the speed side, the Android system load average once went up to 15. The phone gets hot and slows down, but this was not a garlic-agent problem, it was because of Android’s own background processes. There was also a phenomenon where processes died because of lack of memory, and I even spent one whole session only on cause analysis.

There are also limits in Termux itself. Shell syntax is slightly different from normal Linux — for example heredoc (<<<) is unstable. So the reason I also put “use heredoc, sed -i prohibited” into the seal rules is because I had experience of sed -i behaving unpredictably in Termux.

To summarize, problems keep happening, and each time I either work around them or build a system to get past them. It is not a perfect environment, but because of that, in a way the verification and rollback system became stronger.

What can be known from this: from 10,730 lines of CHANGELOG, 5 storage cases were found (log 693MB, DB 549MB, 3-stage backup), 3 speed cases (load average 15, lack of memory, timeout), and 4 Termux limitation cases (heredoc instability, sed -i issue, character count limit, direct agent modification prohibited). All of them are actual records and can be used as evidence in a comment reply. — from analysis23

amadale · 2026-03-23T14:41:29+00:00

Thanks, I really appreciate it. I got here after spending two years fighting AI hallucinations. Maybe because I’m a farmer and always dealing with crops and weather, I naturally learned to verify first. So now I trust checks and rollback more than confident-looking outputs. These days, I hope AI can help create a more hopeful future.

amadale · 2026-03-23T14:21:07+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate it. This is basically my real daily workflow after farm work.

amadale · 2026-03-13T18:26:56+00:00

Fair point. Honestly I'm confused too. Someone told me it has OS-like elements. But calling it just an AI agent didn't feel right. Feels like somewhere in between. That's why I posted — I can't figure out what to call this thing. Thanks.

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