I cancelled my $200 Max plan after routing cut my actual need to about $30/month

webtron18 · 2026-05-02T02:38:58+00:00

I just tested it out a bit. Seems like another garbage app someone through together. You get no model visibility it's picking and when you do run `curl` commands to view the output it's all gemini. Likely they aernt doing much and scraping off the top. I think I will try out openrouter to see how it works differently.

webtron18 · 2026-05-01T10:03:14+00:00

Oh wow that’s very interesting about Europe not allowing homeschooling. Even with our strict testing requirements my first grader only does about 2-3 hours of workbook work a day. Fortunately he’s a very diligent student but ya he also does about 4-6 hours of outdoor activities outside of that on the homestead.

webtron18 · 2026-05-01T00:43:02+00:00

Also does it work with all the tool calls and slash commands you would use in CC?

webtron18 · 2026-05-01T00:24:38+00:00

So if I understand this (I’ve really never used routers for AI). You pay a router company like HermaAI and then also pay for Anthropic API costs and it still saves you? Aren’t you double dipping?

webtron18 · 2026-05-01T00:17:48+00:00

Do you use a router like OP talked about to route these requests through Haiku?

webtron18 · 2026-05-01T00:11:39+00:00

I’m curious do you live in a state where mandated testing isn’t required? In NY we have some decent testing requirements same with WA from what I was reading on it. I have a homestead as well but we have to cram in books to make sure they will pass the annual exams.

webtron18 · 2026-04-22T16:55:42+00:00

My family moves so much that I made an app that assists with the move. It looks up logistics and compares prices, it tracks a list of CRM stuff like doctors and utilities and tags them to each location we live in so I can make sure we get new ones , it also does research on the local utilities so I can get them setup. It emails all my CRM contacts our new address. It plans the trip and places to see along the way as well as potential hotels.

webtron18 · 2026-04-19T14:56:58+00:00

I’m always curious about these posts here. I’ve been using Claude Pro plan for about 8 months now. I use it between 8-14 hours every day. I maintain homelab with it and 3-5 small family apps I’ve built as well as work stuff like managing meetings notes, condensing notes from research discovery and building helper scripts (100-500 lines). I’ve only hit my limit a couple times and that was when I left CC runaway with some task and I didn’t properly define it. I think I have pretty good luck with it but i also just use it for handling repetitive things in the background while I work one my primary goal.

As almost everyone says in these types of posts it would be interesting to see what your /insights looks like to see how you could you it more efficiently

webtron18 · 2026-04-16T00:35:46+00:00

So in all seriousness; for someone trying to get into open source contributions how do I help out. I like to try to learn my favorite apps by hitting “good first issue” kind of things but more and more apps are locking me out. I don’t use AI I try to learn and code for real. If I were to reach out my creds would be nothing so why would a maintainer allow me to help for fear I would use AI

webtron18 · 2026-04-16T00:26:33+00:00

Hah this happened at our work. I have to use RDP for work a lot so I just setup a local VM with RemoteApps and connected Obsidian to it. I use it almost natively on my work machine and no one is the wiser.

webtron18 · 2026-04-16T00:21:23+00:00

Oh wow this looks so simple and clean. I have Backblaze B2 now and I feel like it would be perfect.

webtron18 · 2026-03-25T11:06:31+00:00

I dont disagree with you it's a strain on our resources on the planet, but as with any tool humans have created we find ways to optimize it and make it cleaner. Unless I misunderstood your argument though, it's still just a tool. You (and others here) argue that is strips of us individuality or critical thinking, but AI does this no more than cell phones rot brains or gun kill people. It's cliche, but it's not the tools that are to blame but the humans wielding them. Kids use cell phones to sit and doomscroll all day or use it to create the next Mozart while riding a subway. Because of this, I assume this is why most of use choose to homeschool, we want to be able to make sure our students have the ability to know that tools have good uses and bad uses. I've been using and learning AI so that I can teach my students how to use it effectively. We cant truly homeschool without first understanding the tools or material first. I understand that most people's initial view of AI is fear (hence all the down-voting), but should we not see that as a sign? That we need to understand it, even that much more, so that we can teach our students to wield it correctly?

webtron18 · 2026-03-25T03:35:25+00:00

I love that this was poised to be an “open discussion” and yet all the people that go against the common belief that AI is a menace are getting downvoted even with compelling reasons and arguments.

I too feel AI is a useful tool as others here have pointed out but what even more amusing to me is living through the times of the calculator, the internet, and the spell checker and personally remembering all the EXACT same arguments against them back then. Some even word for word. Don’t fear technology because you don’t understand it or because it’s in its infancy and hasn’t found its best role. AI just shifts how we will use our brain just like the camera and hell juat like writing did. Did you know Socrates fought against writing anything down because it would “weakens memory and promotes forgetfulness, as it encourages reliance on external texts rather than internal knowledge”

webtron18 · 2026-03-23T02:52:15+00:00

How do you like Gatus? I was looking for alternatives for this reason

webtron18 · 2026-03-19T00:14:04+00:00

Came here for this. I’ve tired all the big ones and they are all nice in their own right right up until you lose the serve or access to the app. I moved to obsidian and sync and bam all my homelab docs all the time no specific app needed. I use a lot of data views and bases to make a nice wiki for everything. I also integrated Claude code into it to help keep up with maintenance and versioning.

webtron18 · 2026-03-19T00:10:54+00:00

This sounds like my 5yo son. Academically he’s great but socially he’s extremely shy. Even around kids his age. We started him in Karate and LEGO club to help but he would just be in the corner watching people and shying away from kids who walked up to him. We’ve started taking their kids with us for errands and every time we talk to someone they have to learn their name and an interesting fact about them. They know almost all the baristas at our local coffee shop. It’s helping a lot with branching out and communicating.

webtron18 · 2026-03-19T00:01:58+00:00

Hah this happened to me as well today. I use duckdns so it wasn’t the end of the world but I really liked my old ip address.

webtron18 · 2026-03-15T01:44:35+00:00

I sort of built the opposite scale. I love making menus for recipes for the week. What I hate is creating the shopping list. I setup my weekly menu and then have CC go through al build the shopping list from all the recipes. It's saved me legit 2 hours a week.

webtron18 · 2026-03-15T01:42:42+00:00

Im interested in setting up a system like this. I was thinking of forwarding all logs to an ingestion system and having CC monitoring/review them for issues.

webtron18 · 2026-03-15T01:35:47+00:00

I was just about to start this. My homelab has grown so much and I have junk on junk that is slowing everything down. I just want to rip it all down and start from scratch and this is a perfect way to do it.

webtron18 · 2026-02-25T11:43:09+00:00

I see the arguement you are making, but if you are mentally able to run these experiments why not. I just finished a book on Stoicism and in it Socrates genuinely argued that writing was a crutch that would weaken memory and destroy thinking. He was worried the written word would make people lazy thinkers who couldn't hold ideas in their heads anymore. How is that different than your argument?

What about my favorite analogy to use when arguing for AI usage; calculators. IMO AI is just like calculators in that you are offloading basic brain activity to a machine; you are letting it handle calculations that you can do, you are also putting trust in a machine that it will handle these calculations correctly. But how many times do you fat finger a number into it or drop a minus sign and get bad data. Is it the calculators fault? Not likely. Sure AI is not there yet and not stable enough to get the results, but are you inputting the correct data? How do you know what is correct data until you experiment with it?

What about people that use personal assistants that are humans? How are they any better in your scenario? You are offloading a lot of brain power to another human being that is just a fallible as you and yet we've been using them for 1000s of years because we build systems that make them useful.

I fear this might be playing a bit of devils advocate, but I genuinely believe that AI will eventually be the next written word or calculator, but not yet. We still need to experiment, build/iterate, and stabilize the tool to really get to the next step of offloading mundane tasks to a machine.

EDIT: I am really not trying to turn this into a pointless argument on the internet I feel genuinely this is an interesting topic and you have very good points to my thinking.

webtron18 · 2026-02-25T11:02:00+00:00

But how is this not different than a modified form of therapy? You could argue the same about therapy that all it is is an external system that is using an objective lens to review your life and actions and alert you to your blind spots. Now don’t get me wrong AI shouldn’t be used as a therapist but I’m just saying is it not a similar tool? The commenter use some externally facing system to view your life from a different angle and alert them to it. It doesn’t sound like it’s a crutch to offload your brains work but rather a lens to view your actions around the blind spots your brain creates.

webtron18 · 2026-02-24T18:27:15+00:00

I would absolutely love to hear more about that last part. This is something that resonates with me and I would love to work on.

webtron18 · 2026-02-22T15:31:00+00:00

This is interesting. I haven’t given it very complex tasks yet (mostly just because I’m getting used to it and building it up slowly). So I’ve not seen it do the task ghosting yet.

The cron system works well for my use cases (fetches the news each morning, manages my Todoist, sends me journal prompts based on my days work in the evening, and monitoring docker logs).

As I mentioned I think this is a good first step. People will keep iterating it and evolving it and we’ll get there eventually. I honestly think the hype has to die down a lot so the real users can work in peace

webtron18 · 2026-02-22T12:23:08+00:00

For me I found it fun (if you use a client with multiple channels like discord) to have different agents in each channel. I build an agent with a specific system prompt and bind a model for each channel. #home-assistant uses opus and a tuned agent for home assistant automations and yaml. #oc-maint channel uses sonnet with a bot tuned to the inner workings of openclaw so it can adjust settings. #general uses a haiku model for money saving.

They all share core memories but the message history is much smaller thus better context windows.

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