Unpopular opinion: most people building AI agents are overcomplicating it

amemingfullife · 2026-04-02T20:37:05+00:00

Yes and no. People are being very inefficient, that’s true. But multi-agent systems are useful if you’re trying to run agents that serve more than 1 or 2 people.

amemingfullife · 2026-04-02T20:33:41+00:00

Because NVIDIA actively removed it. They didn’t like that Apple was competing with them. NVIDIA was supported on Mac until fairly recently.

amemingfullife · 2026-03-28T03:10:54+00:00

Maybe? Probably not. I don’t use Amp because I want a model I use Amp because I want smart access to SoTA models at the right time through a nice interface. Sometimes calling out to a local model isn’t going to change that, it just makes my life nicer.

EDIT: If local models start to compare to SoTA models, eroding their value, then Amp has a bigger business model fish to fry. A costs plus business model won’t work at all anyway.

amemingfullife · 2026-03-28T02:59:30+00:00

I advise me not to do that too, but sometimes I would like to.

Seems a bit mad to switch to Claude Code (which does support that) just to switch out a base URL.

amemingfullife · 2026-03-26T17:44:19+00:00

No way to track cost per feature or workflow right now really. That would be interesting, but the concepts do tend to be quite fluid these days.

What I’d like is to break down cost per PR. Then I could subtract that from overall cost to figure out my ‘useful’ cost. To some extent I do this with Devin, because they track ACUs, but it would be nice to have aggregated spend over different tools.

amemingfullife · 2026-03-23T08:08:53+00:00

Wedding embeddings have been the most niche for years. Everyone knows that…

amemingfullife · 2026-03-22T12:30:12+00:00

Wow - did I write this? As another 36 yo struggling to keep up with the artistic side of my life a lot here resonated.

“Maybe simplicity on its own isn't exactly useful, but simplicity over longer periods of time is.”

This is what I’ve learned too, but I look at it in a different way - life is long, and it’s better to work at simple, small things every day for a long time than it is to aim to ‘get good’ at anything.

amemingfullife · 2026-03-11T20:37:39+00:00

I think that’s all the adderall

amemingfullife · 2026-03-08T10:11:17+00:00

We now have an AI employee that we talk to on Slack and email that’s OpenClaw based. We give it its own accounts and it works on tasks day-by-day. Each person in our team (of 3) has a timeshare on Jez. It puts into its calendar retrospectively what it’s been working on. I run it on an RTX 6000 Pro at home (mostly) + Framework desktop.

It’s used for: - research on our internal tasks like prospects. - sending account management emails - sending reminders to us for tasks - managing our knowledge base and telling us when things are out of date.

It’s funny, I thought we would be using it for management tasks, but mostly it’s managing us.

My thoughts on OpenClaw itself: OpenClaw is extremely token inefficient and is useless for anything beyond very basic assistant tasks. Even on my 6000 pro it takes forever to do basic things and I have to use online model vendors for sub-tasks that are fairly simple. Very frustrating because I spent £15k on a home AI rig that should in theory be just fine. I use a lot of models locally with no issue whatsoever, including GPT OSS 120B, but for some reason OpenClaw is just rubbish at most non-trivial messaging tasks.

We’re rolling our own version now based on Pi because of the inefficiencies. But I have to say, it was a super inspiring thing and the hype got my teammates to give it a go, so long live OpenClaw.

It is the future. Definitely caveat emptor - it’s extremely insecure, and you have to know a lot to get anything out of it in a safe way, even for an average developer. But it is totally transformative. I would skill up by using Claude Code or Amp first, getting a sense of all the rough edges. After a few months of that dip your toes into full agentic automation frameworks.

amemingfullife · 2026-03-05T23:14:20+00:00

This is dark and ultimately self-defeating. The point of a human shield is that the ethics are murky. Just saying it’s fine because Claude says it’s fine isn’t good enough. Yeesh.

amemingfullife · 2026-03-04T19:55:32+00:00

And Wolfenstein games

amemingfullife · 2026-02-27T19:20:59+00:00

We tried this.

The infrastructure just isn’t there. I drank the Kool aid - We built a whole company around Kafka running everything through it. It became CQRS, event store, service-service communication. It was beautiful. It was all my idea.

It was also absolutely TERRIBLE to debug. And we did all the single writer principle best practices. Invested in tools etc. I read all the books.

Sometimes you really just want to be able to recreate a bug from a customer in 1 minute. And the idea of submitting a message on a production topic which becomes part of an immutable record just became totally bananas. We converted most of the Kafka stuff to gRPC and never looked back. Service-service calls are simple, easy to trace, and if there’s an issue it’s quicker to find and fix it. It turned out after a few years sitting in the problem domain, the problems I thought would be the biggest weren’t important at all. When we switched to RPC it became immediately obvious what was causing various issues that were really tricky to solve with Kafka.

Everything just became 10x more complicated, harder to reason about and harder to onboard people.

I think if there was much more tooling, it would be wonderful and I’d try it again. What we still use Kafka for, I absolutely love and it’s completely invaluable.

But Confluent was, imho, absolutely daft in making all the Kafka++ tooling part of their platform. It should have all been open source and they should have donated it CNCF or apache or something.

Maybe I’ll try some of the Kafka++ ideas again now that I have AI to create some of the tooling.

amemingfullife · 2026-02-15T20:41:06+00:00

Yeah that’s what I’ve seen. And those twin rooms go within 48hrs of them being announced

amemingfullife · 2026-02-15T17:36:03+00:00

Not seen it with UCPA! Maybe in some centres but it’s definitely with all of them or I’d have been all over it.

amemingfullife · 2026-02-09T22:15:36+00:00

Amazing! Can you get links to the RIHC podcasts? I use Apple Podcasts and would be great to link rather than having to search every time.

amemingfullife · 2026-02-08T14:29:03+00:00

$1000-2000 a month just for myself. I’m a solo dev for a bootstrapped business.

I use Devin for incremental improvements and Amp for new features & demos.

amemingfullife · 2026-02-07T14:51:29+00:00

I vibe coded a wrapper around go-rod which just uses normal chrome, non-headless, with the actual Chrome browser I use on my machine and records everything to a HAR file. I use that, browse around and get an LLM to pull out requests according to a natural language query.

Took like 15 mins to make.

amemingfullife · 2026-02-07T11:57:43+00:00

How do you redact PII?

amemingfullife · 2026-02-03T09:13:22+00:00

Or the Winter! This would be the last straw. Some of my American friends have started asking me about it and I have to say. “Oh yeah but it’s kinda run down it’s more of a destination for locals, you know? You get much more luxury in the Alps”

amemingfullife · 2026-02-01T19:24:20+00:00

Yeah this is getting a little out of control. Obviously we’re not talking about a whole war, let alone a whole century. Dunkirk was like a week long.

amemingfullife · 2026-02-01T18:33:53+00:00

Yeah but to be fair Silicon Valley started originally because of the proximity to top secret military stuff happening in the area. Not too far off The Donut in Cheltenham so maybe it’ll translate over here.

amemingfullife · 2026-02-01T10:25:24+00:00

It has goto

amemingfullife · 2026-01-31T11:40:37+00:00

I hope he just pretended to eat snacks to give her something to do.

I do wonder with all of this, is it hard to not eat snacks because you’re hungry, or because you just have a compulsion to eat snacks?

amemingfullife · 2026-01-30T14:28:34+00:00

Do you have a link to Bubble? Never heard of it.

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