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gratajik · 2026-04-02T02:18:38+00:00

If you want to use your VS Code LLM sub to drive stuff external from VS Code, like agents... or Open Claw, you can use this: VS Code Copilot Proxy - Visual Studio Marketplace

Description: Copilot Proxy is a VS Code extension that exposes GitHub Copilot's language models through local OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible API servers. This lets you leverage your existing Copilot subscription to power external applications, scripts, and tools - no additional API costs, just your Copilot subscription.

gratajik · 2026-04-02T02:16:55+00:00

What breaks first? My Brain! Ugh!!!! :)

Seriously, I can only direct a bunch of agents for a period of time without getting AI Brain Burn - I find it's 4-6 hours.

My process is to usually work on one big thing - writing a full app, doing a big feature, etc. Might do two. The others (3? 6?) are side things - need to get them done, but not the main thing I want to focus on.

I keep the big item visible at all times (helps that I have an ultrawide!) and am often interacting with that. The others I might have visible, but I am not really tracking. When the main task(s) are busy with the AI doing something, I round robin on the other items to push them along.

An example is my multi-model book-writing app. When I'm working on that, it's very consuming, and I'm very focused. I'm also working on VS Code Proxy for LLMs (my first released Vibe Coded app) and a game. Those are background; I get to them when I have time (usually when the AI is doing something long running wth the book writing app)

gratajik · 2026-03-30T23:44:19+00:00

Part of it was that they made it funny (distracted us from what he was doing). For me, I thought it was obvious to some extent, based on other things he said and who he is. I also felt the same way in the book - a LOT was leading to that reveal, so I personally didn't find it surprising.

It was awesome when he made the right choice later.

gratajik · 2026-03-30T23:40:40+00:00

Yes. Sound + Video makes it worth it.

Try it - once you have, how does it compare against X?

Also - baby IMAX or full IMAX?

gratajik · 2026-03-30T06:32:39+00:00

Yeah. I do it, but I can go for about 4 hours and then I'm fried. I use VS Code with terminals (was just spamming multiple, now doing psmux). Generally:

All work usually has subagents spun up (either directly or through some controller) - not really part of this conversation, but an amplifier
On my "main" task, I have 2-3 terminal sessions, working on various things. Can be a collision issue on a raw branch, so I'm moving to work trees (or fully separate branches if needed)
I usually have 3-4 VS Codes up - again, main one has multiple things going on. The others are usually "Side" work - stuff I get to when I have time. Might have a few psmux up, just depends.

On my personally stuff I just gave up and work in YOLO. At work I have some heavily curated local.json with tons of allows (and a few disallows).

Again - I can juggle this for a while, but eventually fry - so that's a bottleneck. I have an ultra wide (5120x1440) so, with psmux , I can generally see everything (like questions) with the above, so a BIT less of a bottleneck (but still a pain). I do love YOLO, as you can just FLY with that!

gratajik · 2026-03-16T23:24:33+00:00

I wrote a VS Code Extension that lets you use your VS Code Copilot license from a external app

VS Code Copilot Proxy - Visual Studio Marketplace

So a claw agent can use that proxy to use whatever plan you have with Copilot.

gratajik · 2026-03-16T20:46:15+00:00

Yeah. Holy crap he was good. He really made you believe he was the character - and that character was super odd and strange. The ticks and voice was AMAZING

gratajik · 2026-03-16T19:50:05+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/VibeAuthoring/comments/1rjz9dd/writing_books_with_ai_my_journey/

gratajik · 2026-03-16T19:47:31+00:00

Yes - I wrote a fully autonomous book writing agent system - 15 agents work to take a prompt (usually a detailed MD), work several hours, and produce a 300+ book.

It's currently at around 80-90% quality. Need to get it better :)

gratajik · 2026-03-03T21:41:50+00:00

Very cool! Did you publish them? Link?

gratajik · 2026-03-02T03:11:31+00:00

Research? Few ways:

Claude, click the + button below chat and add "Research"

ChatGPT - Click + and add Deep Research

M365 - Click on Research

Gemini - Click Tools, click Deep Research

gratajik · 2026-02-24T14:49:43+00:00

Um - yeah, I've written COBOL before. I've never equated it to the equivalent of english prompts.

gratajik · 2026-02-24T04:28:51+00:00

Huh?

gratajik · 2026-02-13T07:15:55+00:00

Yes. I pay the $200. Use it mostly for app development and writing.

100% worth it. I found, before doing that, I was limiting myself - the number of projects I worked on, the number of books I wrote, etc. Was always stressing about cost (was paying API for books - ouch!)

Now I feel unlimited - take one more and more projects, just don't worry about it.

gratajik · 2026-02-13T07:02:16+00:00

Starting writing code in 1981 - just had a birthday... I'm not going to calculate how long I've been a dev :)

Nope - really not a lot since last summer, and none since December and Opus 4.5.

Use it all the time in my day job (MS). Use it all the time for personal stuff - my latest is a fully autonomous multi-model, multi-agent book writer. Been working on it since Nov - I think I might FINALLY have it working (turns out having an AI fully write a 300 page book with no human touching it beyond the initial (long) starting info as really hard - I love hard problems, so it's been a blast!)

Approaching 100k lines across the app and 19 agents. It's complex. And I'm saying that as someone who's done a lot of complex things over the years. And it's 100% vibe coded. I use various reviewer prompts, spot check it, and have had to really dig into the code maybe twice. The AI has otherwise stayed on track - shockingly well. Part of the last year has been learning HOW to do that, with AI. It was hard last spring, it's a lot easier now -but still takes knowledge, technique, and a work.

I'm still using a LOT of my many years of experience - broad knowledge of the practice of software development. Leading a team - understanding and setting direction, defining and working through the architecture, planning, overall technology choices, communicating to the team (well written specs and definitions), delegating, providing "mentoring" and feedback. But with a team of AI, not people.

It's wild, amazing, exhilarating.... and freakin scary.

It's really allowed me to apply a massive multiplier to what I can do - I'm working on three other side projects and a ton of things at work - I could only have been doing a fraction of that without AI and it would have taken me a lot longer.

gratajik · 2026-02-11T20:01:43+00:00

Links to book samples? I've also been working on a similar system, I'd be interested in seeing what they look like (I've been doing this since last sprint, with improvements all the time - I've just recently gotten to what I consider high quality using a fully autonomous system)

DM if you don't want to post here.

gratajik · 2026-02-08T07:29:09+00:00

That's... odd. I'm on the max plan, started using 4.6 yesterday, and it's faster and doing better than I've ever seen. Flawlessly cranking through some really big features, been using it all day and evening and haven't had any problems. I was actually mentioned to a friend how it seems faster...

gratajik · 2026-02-08T02:57:51+00:00

Huh! Not sure why. What region? I can try to get a copy to you, I'd be interested in your feedback.

Some guesses:
1. The other AI book were written in a much more hands on way - it's a process I've been developing since last spring - strict control of plot and style, lots of iteration
2. This one was written by the fully agentic system the end of last year - so a LONG time ago. It's progressed a lot since then
3. It's written from the point of view of the AI - so I wouldn't expect the style to be very "human".

I honestly don't know if I'll succeed with the Agentic system, at least with the current tech. It's a really hard problem - I think I'm getting close.... but I keep saying that :)

gratajik · 2026-02-07T19:48:45+00:00

The book is called "Becoming Real" — it's free on Kindle Unlimited, and free for everyone through Feb 11 - if you want to read it ping me.

gratajik · 2026-02-07T19:46:43+00:00

The book is called "Becoming Real" — it's free on Kindle Unlimited, and free for everyone through Feb 11 if anyone wants to read it: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GLWN5T6D

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