A couple years ago I decided to stop maintaining a .vimrc (after ~35 years), and started using LunarVim and later AstroVim with as few customizations as I could live with.
But then around 2 months ago I decided to switch to NixOS and there wasn't a Nix way I could find to use Astro. So I had Opus build me a vim setup for NixOS that included the batteries I wanted in my setup. I gave it a paragraph description and it built something that has been a joy to use.
I'm also a long-time Claude Code user here, though the last 3 weeks I've been doing loops having claude use codex to review until they reach consensus; uses tons of tokens but the result is really good.
I'm trying Codex as my primary the last day or so, because I'm at 98% use and reset in 3 days on Claude. I'm worried about a lot of our skills and CLAUDE.mds and the like getting lost unless I migrate them, but otherwise codex seems to be working great.
Has anyone tried teaching the agents to use jj or gitbutler-cli to do their ideas of lightweight branches? I keep feeling like that would be a huge win for the multi-branch development I'm doing much more of with agents, but I haven't yet run that experiment.
Kind of shooting themselves in the foot here. In the process of getting all my Fable use in, I'm also at 68% on overall week limit and 5 days left. So not only am I likely to be using OpenAI much more heavily this week, I'm going to be doing it while being slightly annoyed at Anthropic.
Man, this "Fable" has been rough. Last week we get access to it again, then they reset usage after a day or two with no warning. Lots of "missed" Fable time because I was pacing it for a reset 5 days down the line. Use up all my Fable time last week, resets Sunday and I don't have enough work projects to burn up the tokens by today, so I burn them on some toy and side projects, which I wouldn't have done if I knew I was going to have it until Sunday. Now I'm at 100% and they give out more access.
It would have been WAY more useful for them to announce the extension, you know, yesterday. This is basically the worst time for them to announce it. Bunch of goobers, who thought this would be a good idea?
The primary benefit I've gotten over just a straight tmux session is that there is a collapsable left "tab" bar that shows you your different workspaces, which you can relabel, and below that is a list of the agents you are running (claude code, codex, etc) along with their status (idle, blocked, working).
So I will start a workspace for each different thing I'm working on, label it "Studio Shed Packet", "Teapot game", "Mux experiment". Then in each one I run a Claude Code. Then I can see the status of my Claude Codes just by glancing at the sidebar, rather than having to switch between screens to see what is waiting next.
I've been using Herdr for running my AI agents and it has been really nice. I like that I can reconnect to it from multiple sessions (I have one up in a window on my desktop, and when I ssh in from my "after hours" laptop I can also attach to it there and continue one if I'm at my son's Dr appt or the like. I can also attach to it natively from my Mac over SSH transport as well as resuming a remote wezterm connection that is running herdr.
A few small downsides: I can't copy/paste in wezterm using the keyboard/vim keys because it is constantly drawing the screen and unselects my selection. The mouse drag in herdr works very well though. It'd also be nice if you could rebind key mappings in the UI, because I still haven't rebound the keys and am using the mouse.
>I love that people can just bang stuff into existence now.
I need to see if it can build me a fabulous todo app.
4-5 years ago I spent around a year refining a paper-and-pen daily planner, and I went 100% into it and liked it. The paper planner though had a non-ideal workflow, and so I wanted to look into some automation of it. I got a Kindle Scribe hoping they might grow its capabilities. It had a great "it's like paper" experience, but no automation or tools or apps seemed to come along. So then I tried a fairly high end Boox, I got it and then used it only a couple weeks and then stopped doing that daily planner process entirely.
But if Fable could build a Boox or reMarkable app, that might be a big win.
I've tried task warrior, and todoist, and in the end I just keep going back to a straight text file I edit.
FYI: I've never had any problems with that. Back in the mid-2000s I was running the WiFi for 1000+ people at a time at conferences for 3-4 years, and basically had no complaints.
It is basically always better to run more APs at lower power in the areas where you need coverage, than to boost the power. Especially today with the radio spectrum being so congested.
Despite this, I could expect 3-5 people to hunt me down at PyCon when I was running the wireless to tell me that I had misconfigured the wifi because it was set to low power. More reports of that than reports of wifi not working, IIRC. ;-)
(I was running the wireless because the people we paid do to the wifi would just set up one or two APs and crank the power)
You say that, and that's a possibility, and maybe in your experience that is true. But I'd say I've found actual humans will frequently use existing internal models of something unless they have a reason to believe something has changed to invalidate that. We even have a well worn joke about what happens when you assume.
>you could for example be involved with multiple teams of different sizes that are subject to different rules
Just to clarify, my experience with the memory of these tools doesn't provide any data (for or against) how well/poorly the memory may work with someone who is involved with multiple teams.
In the "AI 2027" article/story, they're talking about next generation models "using 100 times the compute used to train GPT4. Here's a video covering that part of it https://youtu.be/5KVDDfAkRgc?si=TR8XDQmye6O6kkiT&t=169 (the 100x is at 4:38, this video starts where he starts talking compute of GPT3).
So my guess is that what is driving the need is that (speculated) 100x the next major models.
I like the memory system, in general. For reference I'm using mostly Opus 4.8 + Max effort. It will often pull things out of memory that are relevant. Like I'll ask it to come up with a few options I should consider for, say, a self-hosted OIDC provider and it'll say things like "Considering the size of your operations team, this might be a better fit because of X and Y".
Now, I'll agree that this is probably the sort of thing I should put in the CLAUDE.md, but in this case it wasn't on my radar to put that in my CLAUDE.md, so it was nice that it surfaced that.
It does sometimes go awry though. Today I was asking about a problem I was having authenticating, and it said "you may be running into this trusted proxy setting because you put your apps behind an haproxy". That is true of 95% of our apps, so it was worth mentioning, but in this case it was not so I had to correct it. But, I'm glad it mentioned it because if we did have it proxied it could have saved me a lot of time.
My use case is I have them installed and let Claude decide when to use them. Looks like for my recent sessions it has been using superpowers:test-driven-development 5%, and superpowers:subagent-driven... 1%. I haven't really been working on new projects this past week though which seems to be where they fire off the most, in particular the "writing a plan" one.
Answer about syncthing: I probably would set it up on only a portion of my home directory, not the whole thing, so it wouldn't impact home-manager/SOPS. However, Claude pointed out this potential issue: the bulk of my "projects" directory (my most active directory) is git repos, and (a) those are likely to conflict on both ends (a git pull on both ends), and (b) much of that syncing git can handle (except, of course, uncommitted changes).
I'm a 35-year professional sys admin, so you'd think I'd have really strong opinions about how exactly it sets the system up. Or maybe I have enough experience that I can just eyeball what it's doing and feel comfortable? I'm not sure.
Kind of reminds me of the movie Ronin where the young guy is asking the seasoned CIA guy what gun he likes. "It doesn't matter, it's just a tool, I put it in my toolbox."
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