carimura

It's hard to keep up with the pace of everything but looking at this site it seems like the Ollama people launched it? Or are they just purposely imitating everything about Ollama. Seems pretty infringey.

Hmm maybe I should get a steam deck to do something similar.....

My current strategy is to skip ads and skip any name that is just a jumble of letters. But the garbage producers are getting so good with AI they can create entire websites with US addresses and pictures of buildings and employees and none of it is real.

I use the term sandbox loosely. They're on a VPS running as user hermes but they share everything with each other in their own user space. I could/should probably improve this. Maybe make them their own unix user. They are separated from the root-access agent.

Obsidian is like the shared knowledge base that everyone has access to and that I can easily read/review (although I try not to too often). It has architecture stuff, go-to-market section, howtos (setting up new agents, dns backups, etc.), info on my main projects, writing, etc. It gets synced between my machine and the VPS. I also store in github as a backup occasionally (thx for reminder!).

I use the actual Buzz ios app which I was building on my own but at first glance it appears is now in the iOS store.

It depends on what you mean by sensitive personal data. I actually don't give any agents access to my main email boxes instead they access a business google workspace that is spinning up.

I do separate the agents duties somewhat to try and give them the least privileges they need to do a job, and talk to all of them through buzz, and they talk to each other (occasionally) when they need something they don't have access to.

As mentioned in the post I still do a majority of my coding at my local terminal with just bits and pieces sent to my "dev-agent" through Buzz. This is a next experiment for me - (that's a hyphen!) to offload more coding to agents.

ah forgot about the RSS feed. thanks for the complement!

that's exactly what I thought too. When I first saw Buzz I was like "oh, finally a reason to look at Nostr."

two reasons that I am moderately confident in: 1) I really want something open source, but most importantly, 2) I want something easy.

My experience trying to get Discord and/or Slack to work was painful for 1 agent, let alone the potential for hundreds.

Here's the perfect example of the power of Buzz: there was some hype today about Grok Bot so i wanted to spin it up. I did, and within like 3 minutes, I had a Grok Bot talking to my other agents in Buzz, and Buzz is definitely not a supported plugin.

buzz is how they communicate. they know about each other through a couple of ways: their own stored memory, a Mnemosyne bank, or a shared obsidian wiki. Or maybe they joined a linkedin for bots that I don't know about.

Ya I'm starting to see that agents are just "input + llm + some memory + tools + lots of cron jobs".

ya all makes sense. hoping the harness can manage some of the MCP noise. I'm using 5.6-Sol so context window is 1M.

that's news to me. for what?

ya i'm sure there are lower cost options. My droplet is 8 gigs mem which I found necessary for 6 agents.

Not yet. The agents do have access to the web but not really a proper browser. Browserbase or equivalent is next on my list.

That's neat. You could do this with Buzz by just having open room conversations with agents.

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$48/month for the droplet (could probably be cheaper on Hertzner) and $100/month for OpenAI plan. so ~$150/month but again this could be cheaper with a different VPS and using Terra/Luna.

I also have a claude max plan for coding but like I mentioned in the article coding is still separate from the agents.

$48/month for the droplet (could probably be cheaper on Hertzner) and $100/month for OpenAI plan. so ~$150/month but again this could be cheaper with a different VPS and using Terra/Luna.

I also have a claude max plan for coding but like I mentioned in the article coding is still separate from the agents.

AI is far from doing everything in my setup. just looking for incremental wins to see if my slop machine can be useful.

that was one of my FAQs at the bottom. I want separation of duties and least-privilege so agents can only access what they need for their particular duties.

That said, my vision is to eventually build manager agents to manage the minion agents. Like real people. I have no idea if "people" is the right analogy for all this work but my brain can't really wrap around a different analogy yet.

this author agrees. hence my attempt at steering part of that trillion dollars for my non-profit which maybe someday might do some good.

it's just like Slack really. I have a DM open for each agent where I can talk direct. But they are also part of individual rooms also where I just need to @ them and they open a thread. They can talk to each other also by @'ing each other (in public rooms or ones they both belong to)

It's literally just like humans.. except. not.

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

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.

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

neat! ah who knows I'm just building to build. Happy to connect to share notes though -- hit me up hello at chad.cm

The extension is still in review in the Chrome store but you can easily install it using the docs.

No plans for other languages at the moment. Right now my business model is to lose a bunch of money. The $5 plan might get close to breaking even. If it gets too expensive and I don't want to make a business I'll open source it all with instructions to install for those interested.

Exactly. I haven't reached the "let 1000 agents bloom" mode yet, so currently I'm spending real headspace managing agents doing work, and that work is all important, so why "settle" for sub-frontier models for that work? Maybe I'll get there for non-coding work.

thinking about also open sourcing... let me know if there's interest there.