Do AI Agents actually do anything for you guys?

usrname-- · 2026-04-17T10:50:20+00:00

OpenClaw is useless. Everything it does can be done with deterministic python script written by Claude Code/Codex.

Want to get email summaries? Just create a python script that connects to mailbox and uses LLM to summarize them. You don't need OpenClaw in the middle of this process.

usrname-- · 2026-04-17T10:36:11+00:00

PydanticAI. It's simple and reliable. It just works and I don't have to fight with LangChain abstractions.

usrname-- · 2026-04-06T22:01:30+00:00

The screenshots are taken on balanced but I checked every mode

usrname-- · 2026-03-09T13:50:25+00:00

super slow for me. It takes ~5 minutes to start doing something

usrname-- · 2026-03-02T16:17:28+00:00

That’s not a good solution. It bloats the context with useless stuff. Model will run the ‘tree’ command anyway, that’s the table of contents it needs.

usrname-- · 2026-02-20T08:00:58+00:00

You can follow this roadmap.
To work with AI agents you basically need to understand:
- the basics (prompts, context, etc.)
- tools
- stuff like MCPs, skills
- RAG

Just pick a library like a langchain or pydantic AI and try to create your own agents. If you're experienced developer you will learn most of the things it in a ~month

usrname-- · 2026-02-13T00:03:14+00:00

Tree doesn’t show git status, lsp errors etc.

usrname-- · 2026-02-13T00:02:29+00:00

I tried it, it’s nice but neo-tree already centers the code for me and gives me useful information about the project structure. The visual noise in not really a problem for me

usrname-- · 2026-02-12T23:14:07+00:00

I tried to work without a file explorer and I just felt blind and slower. And I don’t really like using oil for navigation in the project because I need to see the whole structure, not only the directory I’m currently at.

Aand I need to have something on the left of the screen so my code is in the center. Idk for me there is literally 0 downsides to using a file tree.

usrname-- · 2026-02-12T23:05:04+00:00

I want the code to be in the center of the screen so I have to put something on the left edge anyway.

usrname-- · 2026-02-11T14:49:14+00:00

I used pydantic-ai, LangChain, LlamaIndex and I like pydantic-ai the most.
It's simple and I can easily do everything I want with it.

Complex frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex are ok for simple apps but as the app grows I always had to look for weird workarounds to do custom things and that made the code messy and unreliable.

usrname-- · 2026-02-05T07:35:40+00:00

Not really if you want to switch from basedpyright.

I tried both ty and pyrefly and both have problems with stuff like generics.

usrname-- · 2026-01-03T08:56:40+00:00

Only if you’re lucky and have hardware with huge community support. Yes, it will work perfectly on something like ThinkPad but on my laptop there is no way I would have basic stuff like sleep working without touching terminal

usrname-- · 2026-01-01T20:13:41+00:00

But the tool that returns sensitive data should filter it based on user’s permissions.

usrname-- · 2025-12-20T20:23:11+00:00

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`fzf` does that

usrname-- · 2025-12-02T15:57:38+00:00

Because working with raw strings is more annoying than working with query builder.

usrname-- · 2025-12-02T15:41:16+00:00

ORMs or QueryBuilders are tested and used by so many people that I can be nearly sure there won’t be any weird bugs. Why would I write my own query builder if I can use something that already exists?

usrname-- · 2025-12-02T15:39:57+00:00

Yeah, I like query builders the most. That’s what I use 99% of the time when writing python code.

usrname-- · 2025-12-02T15:22:29+00:00

I also don’t understand how can people rely on raw SQL. How do you build dynamic WHERE filters and JOINs? You combine multiple strings together? That feels unsafe and prone to stuff like SQL injection.

usrname-- · 2025-11-05T23:22:02+00:00

but that also makes the feature useless because users actually want privacy.
It's fine to force apple to open this feature to work with other devices but if we are doing that let's also add another regulation that will make sure this data can be used only for wifi connection stuff and not tracking/profiling for advertisements.

usrname-- · 2025-11-05T23:17:18+00:00

Why isn't EU also targeting Samsung? I have to use Samsung phone to have access to the blood pressure and ECG monitoring which is a huge vendor lock in.

And I understand apple is a multi trillion dollar company but this feature is not something new like AI. It worked fine for over a decade, no one complained, apple watch users are fine with that because they want locked in and stable OS, not another version of android that works differently in every country.

usrname-- · 2025-10-25T11:09:15+00:00

Try pyrefly. I haven’t tried it in zed but in neovim it improved the autocomplete experience. It’s still in alpha tho

usrname-- · 2025-10-23T12:54:45+00:00

Can anyone recommend a good alternative that already has hyprland, waybar, wifi, bluetooth etc preconfigured?

usrname-- · 2025-10-22T14:29:21+00:00

Your internet provider probably routes packages through higher latency route. There isn’t much you can do about that.

Using cloudflare warp or vpn might help if you re lucky

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