Anyone using AI agents?
What do you use and what for?
What’s your experience with it?
Discussion
Create a virtual girlfriend
For coding, Replit is king. Uses Sonnet.
You prefer it over VS Code?
VS Code itself has no LLM integration but there is plugins. I know there is "continue" and "cline". The latter has issues with my big code base. The former I can't find yet how to prompt 🤯
Cline doesn’t do cache so it has to constantly look through files wasting compute and time. I wish that was improved but I understand why they do this to keep input tokens down
Debug my codebase
And I think AI will control us unconsciously
It already tells me what to do. “Why don’t you toggle the act mode …”
Yup. Bit of a learning curve if you're not a developer.
I'm using it for automating simple things so far like working with my emails (draft, multilabels, one sentence summaries of emails, etc), calendar stuff (check availability, make events, find time to have a meeting, check for conflicts between personal and work calendars, etc.).
I'm liking it but I like playing with tech stuff. so it's pretty fun. 😅. It's definitely going to flip everything on its head - quickly. If I had a desk job in front of a computer that isn't creative... I'd either lean into learning this stuff or finding some kind of non-desk work that can't easily be automated.
Mark Moss summed it up pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnoEyA4y_dc
and
Peter McCormack show had an episode last week that went into it too:
I often use it to summarize and occasionally the text to be summarized is was indeed AI generated.
I'm guilty of inflating text, too. Friend made me read a long, 4 paragraph text that should have been a single line. AI helped me to formulate a lengthy criticism of that fact ;)
But as a coder, AI is great to quickly parse code and understand why it behaves in unexpected ways even if I haven't used the programming language before.
Yes.
Replit with Claude 3.5 Sonnet for basically all development I do.
Great for full project context, code completion, and new feature ideation/development.
I've also tried goose, but I couldn't get it to work; might've just been that I have too weak a computer.
Y replit over vs code?
It's an all-in-one IDE that manages deployments, db connections, AI chat, extensions, and more all really seamlessly. The obvious downside is that you need an account and have to be online in order to use it, but that's rarely ever been an issue for me. I also like the ability to code on mobile if I ever need to push and deploy a quick fix.
How do they manage credits? Any limits? What’s the pricing like? I like that with open router there is no monthly tier and no limits - you just pay for calls you make
With the Core plan (which is $180/yr or $25/month) you get $25 worth of credits and you pay additionally just based on what you use. No limits unless on the free tier, which limits you to 3 public projects, 1200 minutes of dev time (hinestly not sure what this means), and the Agent usage to their open-source model (not sure if it limits calls). I was lucky and got grandfathered into a cheaper yearly plan for being one of the first to subscribe, so I pay $120/yr.
I tried replit the other night on my phone... I only played with it for about 25 mins, but was very impressed!
They are great for jumping into project directories and making changes to files when you ask them. I recently told it to look in a file and write a test for one of the functions in there. Worked great.
Lots for search. For coding assistance I'm very skeptical. It's great for certain focused tasks, but in most cases it's a great legacy code generator.