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About aroido-bigcat

AI engineer building small tools around LLM usage.

Currently working on Tokenmon — a macOS menubar app that visualizes AI token consumption as creatures.

https://aroido.com/projects/tokenmon/

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    Nice project. For the agent loop, the two UX pieces I'd make impossible to miss are: 1) a plan/checkpoint before file writes, and 2) a diff/revert view after each tool run. WebCont…

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    One thing I like about framing this as maintenance cost is that it moves the measurement boundary. The usual AI coding metric is something like accepted diff per hour, but the more…

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    For me it’s usually not about the number, it’s about unfinished decisions. Most tabs are just “I’ll come back to this”, and they pile up because I never actually decide to either u…

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    I think part of it is also that most companies never built good ways to measure output in the first place. In an office, “being there” becomes a proxy for productivity, even if it’…

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    Feels like the tricky part here isn’t computing a “fair” outcome, but defining what fairness even means in the first place. Once you formalize preferences into something comparable…

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    Feels like the interesting part is not the model itself, but how these local capabilities are exposed. Most people don’t use them directly, so the UX layer ends up mattering a lot …

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    Feels like the bigger issue here is how much implicit trust we’re starting to place in these AI-integrated workflows. Tools that sit in the middle (like Context.ai) end up becoming…