My Agent Setup

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Post by carimura » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC

My Agent Setup
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Re: My Agent Setup

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Post by geooff_ » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 2:14 PM UTC

It's always fun seeing how other people are using these tools.

> Has it been worth it? For the journey, yes, for the ROI, nope.

It's also nice seeing someone experiment without succumbing to AI psychosis.

Re: My Agent Setup

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Post by orangebread » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 2:25 PM UTC

Very cool setup. I went down a similar path and while it is definitely cool to see the extent of how agentic AI can be, I agree the ROI isn't _quite_ there yet.

I don't live in a world where I need to be constantly reading and replying to emails, so 95% of my inbox is just subscription spam. With development I need to be at the helm to design the planning requirements and actively make decisions before the agent goes off and executes the plan. But I don't need a personal agent for that, I work directly out of codex/claude-code.

Re: My Agent Setup

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Post by carimura » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 2:26 PM UTC

geooff_ wrote: post #2

It's always fun seeing how other people are using these tools. > Has it been worth it? For the journey, yes, for the ROI, nope. It's also nice seeing someone experiment without succumbing to AI psychosis.

i'd like to go into the psychosis but i'm not there yet.

Re: My Agent Setup

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Post by carimura » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 2:27 PM UTC

orangebread wrote: post #3

Very cool setup. I went down a similar path and while it is definitely cool to see the extent of how agentic AI can be, I agree the ROI isn't _quite_ there yet. I don't live in a world where I need to be constantly reading and replying to emails, so 95% of my inbox is just subscription spam. With development I need to be at the helm to design the planning requirements and actively make decisions before the agent goes…

same. I'd like to get to a place where I can have long-running tasks and goals for more over-night working, but it's not there yet.

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Post by vhbryhin » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 2:29 PM UTC

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Post by carimura » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 2:30 PM UTC

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Re: My Agent Setup

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Post by whazor » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 2:33 PM UTC

I am now on the MCP route, where I have lots of personally hosted MCPs. Including managing calender/e-mail.

It does not cost too much effort to maintain MCP servers. No port forwarding or VPNs required thanks to OpenAI tunnels.

And security wise its quite nice, since you have to activate MCP or give permission sometimes. So each chat is kind of isolated from each-other.

Re: My Agent Setup

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Post by carimura » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 2:36 PM UTC

whazor wrote: post #8

I am now on the MCP route, where I have lots of personally hosted MCPs. Including managing calender/e-mail. It does not cost too much effort to maintain MCP servers. No port forwarding or VPNs required thanks to OpenAI tunnels. And security wise its quite nice, since you have to activate MCP or give permission sometimes. So each chat is kind of isolated from each-other.

interesting.. does that bloat the context window? I imagine Hermes already struggles with context window size.. been meaning to look into that.

Re: My Agent Setup

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Post by whazor » Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC

carimura wrote: post #9

whazor wrote: post #8

I am now on the MCP route, where I have lots of personally hosted MCPs. Including managing calender/e-mail. It does not cost too much effort to maintain MCP servers. No port forwarding or VPNs required thanks to OpenAI tunnels. And security wise its quite nice, since you have to activate MCP or give permission sometimes. So each chat is kind of isolated from each-other.

interesting.. does that bloat the context window? I imagine Hermes already struggles with context window size.. been meaning to look into that.

I don't have problems on ChatGPT with the amount of MCPs (five) I have. But each MCP can do quite a lot.