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Re: Ask HN: Do you use personal AI Agents?

#11
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No

Hard same. None at all, ever, in anything. And I disable any I can in all the apps I use, and I try to find apps that do not embed any kind of LLM. Currently, I am giving serious consideration to junking Firefox, or reverting to the ESR version or something. I am heartily sick of mindless "AI" bots everywhere.

Have you checked out Waterfox?

https://www.waterfox.net/

Re: Ask HN: Do you use personal AI Agents?

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post #11
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hard same. None at all, ever, in anything. And I disable any I can in all the apps I use, and I try to find apps that do not embed any kind of LLM. Currently, I am giving serious consideration to junking Firefox, or reverting to the ESR version or something. I am heartily sick of mindless "AI" bots everywhere.

Have you checked out Waterfox? https://www.waterfox.net/

Yep. It's been my default browser since Firefox Quantum came out, so circa 2017.

I did switch back to Firefox (but only on my Macs) since Waterfox was forced to drop XUL support, but I am reconsidering that too now.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use personal AI Agents?

#15

I set up an MCP for jira, to hopefully avoid me from ever opening jira again. i will just talk to the LLm, and ask it to set a task to in progress, tell me what to work on next, add tasks to sprints, tag tickets with labels / link them to epics, search for issues, create bugs / tasks etc seems mildly helpful, with some slack mcp etc it could be useful for teams i think i really don't want to just buy an agentic workf…

I once set up Jira automations and integrations so well that a developer could move a ticket all the way to ready for final PO review without actually opening up Jira, and I told my manager about this and a product manager asked in a horrified tone: "you mean they can do their work without actually reading the tickets?"
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