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Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer

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Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer

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Post by attentive »

faangguyindia wrote: post #42
InitialPhase55 wrote: post #11

Curious, how did you settle on Haiku/Sonnet? Because there are much cheaper models on OpenRouter that probably perform comparatively... Consider Haiku 4.5: $1/M input tokens | $5/M output tokens vs MiniMax M2.7: $0.30/M input tokens | $1.20/M output tokens vs Kimi K2.5: $0.45/M input tokens | $2.20/M output tokens I haven't tried so I can't say for sure, but from personal experience, I think M2.7 and K2.5 can match H…

just use gemini flash3, it's better than haiku

or better yet 3.1 Flash-Lite at $0.25/1M input

Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer

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Post by ihsw »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #8

This is such a great idea. I have an idea now for a bot that might help make tech hiring less horrible. It would interview a candidate to find out more about them personally/professionally. Then it would go out and find job listings, and rate them based on candidate's choices. Then it could apply to jobs, and send a link to the candidate's profile in the job application, which a company could process with the same bo…

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Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer

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Post by nl »

InitialPhase55 wrote: post #11

Curious, how did you settle on Haiku/Sonnet? Because there are much cheaper models on OpenRouter that probably perform comparatively... Consider Haiku 4.5: $1/M input tokens | $5/M output tokens vs MiniMax M2.7: $0.30/M input tokens | $1.20/M output tokens vs Kimi K2.5: $0.45/M input tokens | $2.20/M output tokens I haven't tried so I can't say for sure, but from personal experience, I think M2.7 and K2.5 can match H…

Xiaomi Mimo v2-Flash is fantastic.

I have a relatively hard personal agentic benchmark, and Mimo v2-Flash scores 8% higher in 109 seconds for $0.003 (0.3 cents!) vs Haiku which took 262 seconds for $0.24 (24 cents)

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview (yes that is its name) is also a solid choice.

Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer

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Post by mandeepj »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #8

This is such a great idea. I have an idea now for a bot that might help make tech hiring less horrible. It would interview a candidate to find out more about them personally/professionally. Then it would go out and find job listings, and rate them based on candidate's choices. Then it could apply to jobs, and send a link to the candidate's profile in the job application, which a company could process with the same bo…

> Then it could apply to jobs

Almost every job application has its own UI style. Without training the bot on many different job sites, not sure how it can apply to all those jobs.

Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer

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Post by wolvoleo »

I tried it, it was cool. I don't like nully's attitude though. Very dismissive and tough.

But I like your setup as a whole. I'll see if I can get some takeaways from it.

I do tiered here too, with the lowest tier just a qwen local bot.

By the way how do you handle the escalation from haiku to opus I wonder?

Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer

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Post by chatmasta »

faangguyindia wrote: post #41

I actually use IRC in my coding agent Change into rooms to get into different prompts. using it as remote to change any project, continue from anywhere.

Does IRC still have message length limits or was that only in the early versions of the protocol?

Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer

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Post by chatmasta »

AbanoubRodolf wrote: post #52
faangguyindia wrote: post #41

I actually use IRC in my coding agent Change into rooms to get into different prompts. using it as remote to change any project, continue from anywhere.

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This sounds a lot cleaner than the approach I was thinking of with a separate bot for each role. I like it.

Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer

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Post by chatmasta »

ekianjo wrote: post #57
selcuka wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't LLMs commodity products these days? It's the same thing as running this on a $7 VPS that you don't "own". I don't think switching to a different provider, or running an open one locally would affect the response quality that much.

The LLM is the key element here, not the 7 dollars VPS... The model itself has cost billions of dollars to train and of the service shuts down or is interrupted for some reason your fancy setup breaks like nothing.

> The LLM is the key element here

No, the key (novel) element here is the two-tiered approach to sandboxing and inter-agent communication. That’s why he spends most of the post talking about it and only a few sentences on which models he selected.

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