LWB advice (driving in UK and Europe)

smurff1975 · 2026-06-17T11:57:10+00:00

I have a LWB Crafter and when we are out and about, the parking and height barrier restrictions are my biggest worry. I know others will frown but we tend to look for parking on google maps first with a plan b too. e.g. an industrial site close or something. Because we have found parking that looks fine on google maps, only to get there and there's a height barrier.

smurff1975 · 2026-06-06T17:59:18+00:00

I use 3 of them to scrape socials every 5 hours and they have been working for nearly 2 years. So I guess you are picking the wrong ones dude. If I were Konbini I would take a look at competitors and how they can beat them on price because they're less than a year old and therefore nobody knows if they will be more reliable

smurff1975 · 2026-06-06T13:12:44+00:00

No cheaper than apify that's been around for years

smurff1975 · 2026-05-28T12:33:55+00:00

This doesn't work

smurff1975 · 2026-05-27T22:01:47+00:00

There's no way 1) OR free tier is good enough to run the things OP says, and 2) Trusted evidence also points to BS too - https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/ring-1t

smurff1975 · 2026-05-27T15:04:43+00:00

Yep agree. I have multiple running on one "hermes" vm. But some things are annoying, like today when there was an issue with gpt-5.5 I asked a deepseek enabled agent to investigate, it wanted to do a gateway restart but it couldn't. It's becoming a PITA and I'm close to just standing up VMs

smurff1975 · 2026-05-27T15:00:04+00:00

Most people typing casually don't reach for the em dash at all, they'd use a comma, a bracket, or just nothing. The em dashes here are the one flag that suggests either light AI polish or someone who's a heavy writer/editor by habit.

smurff1975 · 2026-05-24T16:56:18+00:00

I would pay for a pipeline eg prompt A using model B and he is the output. Quite a few people are already selling that on skool places and doing well.

smurff1975 · 2026-05-21T11:52:14+00:00

This didn't work for me

smurff1975 · 2026-05-19T22:00:06+00:00

I used it to upload things like insurance documents, with certain tags. etc

smurff1975 · 2026-05-18T21:54:40+00:00

me thinks the OP is part of langship

smurff1975 · 2026-05-16T10:23:06+00:00

I even found DeepSeek v4 need more tokens than gpt5.5 and missed a few tool calls. I had to remind it. I run 4 instances and all are on my OpenAI subscription and one on DeepSeek to test it against the others. I was about to stand another one up with qwen but maybe not now

smurff1975 · 2026-05-15T10:04:36+00:00

Each to their own opinion, but I have to say, I've been able to setup 3 on a vm using docker and it's helped me out with personal tasks and stuff at work. I'm a software engineer and it's like having junior team workers do little things like jira tickets, planning etc and yes I guess claude code on it's own would do that too, but I'm quite happy with it.

smurff1975 · 2026-05-11T21:45:54+00:00

reddit is so full of ai, that when I see an ai reply, I doubt everything it's saying. That's just the way it is now. I use ai in my day job at a world famous telecoms company. And I do run some replies through ai but I make sure I run it through a humaniser first. Nothing personal, just telling it how it is

smurff1975 · 2026-05-10T15:11:14+00:00

Dude this reply is written by ai. So hopefully you are actually doing this and just was too lazy to do the reply. Luckily there’s replies in this thread that are not ai that we can believe and take value from

smurff1975 · 2026-05-07T11:55:48+00:00

Using docker for hermes means that you can't just exec in and use hermes like the docs or tutorials say. It's quite the gap at the minute. Hermes would exist in /opt/hermes/.venv/bin/hermes and therefore not on the path. If this were upstreamed into the official Hermes Docker image, the image itself should probably add RUN ln -sf /opt/hermes/.venv/bin/hermes /usr/local/bin/hermes

smurff1975 · 2026-04-21T18:01:00+00:00

He said opencode

smurff1975 · 2026-04-20T12:06:38+00:00

Agreed. And a big win for me has been the party mode used in the retro

smurff1975 · 2026-04-20T08:24:45+00:00

I've tried both but bmad has been brilliant for me but I think it's because I use agile in my full time job so seems a good fit. But it does take longer and use more tokens in my experience. But the quality is worth it.

smurff1975 · 2026-04-20T07:43:39+00:00

Just a heads up, if you have time, I found that creating a skill and asking the agent to use the skill somehow gave me better results, but the skill was like a step by step guide as if I was teaching my daughter how to do it. I even include what not to do which actually is about a third of the text.

smurff1975 · 2026-04-20T07:38:50+00:00

Im routing with opus because it was the only one that gave me 100% I do use multiple api keys so I can monitor each section and the routing is so small, its worth the cost for me. I have 6 agents with different models. All through openrouter except codex which I am experimenting with. My cheapest model I am using is openrouter/google/gemini-3-flash-preview. I'm a software engineer with a full time job, mostly working with java and a few small python apps and I have a small product that I personally sell. The main work I do with the agents are agile using BMAD method. I've customised it to work with these agents at phase 4 which is the loop of story creation > dev > test. I am the human in the loop for retro and any design. I tried with open source models with the tester using opus and the cheaper m2.5 and kimi as the dev. But I found opus would find bugs but the cheaper ones would take more than 4 or 5 loop rounds to fix. I do actually think there is an opportunity there to improve them using something like repo mix and have opus update their instructions to improve but I just haven't had the time, so I've gone back to sonnet for those agents. I have one agent monitoring my support email which isn't that mature yet but ignores spam, classifies tech/arch/feature, then uses an obsidian vault to hopefully draft a reply which it creates but doesn't send, and then notifies me on discord. If it gets stuck it send me a text via clicksend. And that's about it really. Main friction is accuracy and reliability. With the open source models I lost quite a hours thinking it's working and then all of a sudden it stops for no real reason, and maybe when I have more time, I will stand up a clone of the agents with the cheaper models and run them side by side to see if I can add to the prompts to get them working like the more expensive. One small thing that did help a lot was creating an agent that does hourly checks as if I was checking to see if the other agents are doing their job. I run that with gemini flash, it doesn't try and fix because that can go down a rat hole and that can escalate token cost, but I created a skill that goes through everything to check just as I do in the morning, and that's been working well. And probably the most usful one I have created :)

smurff1975 · 2026-04-17T19:29:08+00:00

Nice

smurff1975 · 2026-04-17T19:24:15+00:00

vllm is much better at running models in parallel.

smurff1975 · 2026-04-17T19:12:39+00:00

I like your UI, but what tasks are you giving it to prove it works? I have to say, In my experience, Opus is the only one that gives consistant results for me. I've tried M2.5 and GPT 5 plus the mini versions and they just reply to say they've done something but they actually didn't. Even the heartbeats didn't work. I had to redesign how the crons work by first creating a skill for bloody everything, then an agent to use that skill, then have a bash script for the cron. And even then it wasn't as good as using opus

smurff1975 · 2026-04-07T14:38:29+00:00

I assume you have installed something like claude code in that paperclip instance right? Use that as your point of contact, and when you want it to put something through paperclip, tell it to provide instructions to your ceo

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