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Building a Personal AI Factory

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Re: Building a Personal AI Factory

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Okay, what is he actually building with this?

I have a problem where half the times I see people talking about their AI workflow, I can't tell if they are talking about some kind of dream workflow that they have, or something they're actually using productively

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breckenedge wrote: post #5
steveklabnik wrote: post #3

I'd love to see more specifics here, that is, how Claude and o3 talk to each other, an example session, etc.

I presume via Goose via MCP in Claude Code: > I also have a local mcp which runs Goose and o3.

Ah, I skimmed the docs for Goose but I couldn't figure out exactly what it is that it does, which is a common issue for docs.

For example: https://block.github.io/goose/docs/category/tutorials/ I just want to see an example workflow before I set this up in CI or build a custom extension to it!

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Post by steveklabnik »

skybrian wrote: post #4

> It’s essentially free to fire off a dozen attempts at a task - so I do. What sort of subscription plan is that?

Claude Code's $200 Max subscription can take a lot of usage. I haven't done a dozen things at once, but I have worked on two side projects simultaneously with it before.

ccusage shows me getting over 10x the value of paying via API tokens this month so far...

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IncreasePosts wrote: post #2

Okay, what is he actually building with this? I have a problem where half the times I see people talking about their AI workflow, I can't tell if they are talking about some kind of dream workflow that they have, or something they're actually using productively

I keep coming to the same conclusion, which basically is: if I had an LLM write it for me, I just don't care about it. There are 2 projects out of the maybe 50 or so that are LLM generated, and even for those two I cared enough to make changes myself without an LLM. The rest just sit there because one day I thought huh wouldn't it be neat if, and then realized actually I cared more about having that thought than having the result of that thought. Then you end up fighting with different models and implementation details and then it messes up something and you go back and forth about how you actually want it to work, and somehow this is so much more draining and exhausting than just getting the work done manually with some slight completion help perhaps, maybe a little bit of boilerplate fill-in. And yes, this is after writing extensive design docs, then having some reasoning LLM figure out the tasks that need to be completed, then having some models talk back and forth about what needs to happen and while it's happening, and then I spent a whole lot of money on what exactly? Questionably working software that kinda sorta does what I wanted it to do? If I have a clear idea, or an existing codebase, if I end up guiding it along, agents and stuff are pretty cool I guess. But vibe coding? Maybe I'm in the minority here but as soon as it's a non trivial app, not just a random small script or bespoke app kind of deal, it's not fun, I often don't get the results I actually wanted out of it even if I tried to be as specific as I wanted with my prompting and design docs and example data and all that, it's expensive, code is still messy as heck, and at the end I feel like I just spent a whole lot of time actually literally arguing with my computer. Why would I want to do that?
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