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.
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
#42Curious, 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
Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
#43But relying on a Claude API so you don't really "own the stack" as claimed in the article...
Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
#44Curious, 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…
MiniMax's Token Plan is even less expensive and agent usage is explicitly allowed.
Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
#45lol I sent this link to my Claude bot connected to my Discord server and it started converting with nully and another bot named clawdia. moltbook all over again. I’m surprised how effortlessly it connected to IRC and started talking.
Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
#46I 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.
same here, would love to compare notes
Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
#47This 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…
If the bot could also take care of any unpaid labour the interview process is asking for, that'd be swell. The company's bot can pull a ticket from the queue, the candidate's bot could process it, and the HR bot could approve or deny the hire based on hidden biases in the training data and/or prompt injections by the candidate.
Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
#48I wonder if this brings back demand for IRC clients on mobile devices? ;-)
Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
#49This 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…
How would this prevent the spammers/fakers/overseas from saturating this channel as well?
Re: Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
#50While I am a huge fan of IRC, wouldn't be simpler to simulate IRC, since you are embedding it? Or is the chatroom the actual point? Kudos on the project!