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Building a Personal AI Factory

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260 points derek | 2 comments | 01 Jul 25 21:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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steveklabnik ◴[01 Jul 25 21:53 UTC] No.44438330[source]▶
I'd love to see more specifics here, that is, how Claude and o3 talk to each other, an example session, etc.
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schmookeeg ◴[01 Jul 25 22:59 UTC] No.44438730[source]▶
I use Zen MCP and OpenRouter. Every once in awhile, my instance of claude code will "phone a friend" and use Gemini for a code review. Often unprompted, sometimes me asking for "analysis" or "ultrathink" about a thorny feature when I doubt the proposed implementation will work out or cause footguns.

It's wild to see in action when it's unprompted.

For planning, I usually do a trip out to Gemini to check our work, offer ideas, research, and ratings of completeness. The iterations seem to be helpful, at least to me.

Everyone in these sorta threads asks for "proofs" and I don't really know what to offer. It's like 4 cents for a second opinion on what claude's planning has cooked up, and the detailed response has been interesting.

I loaded 10 bucks onto OpenRouter last month and I think I've pulled it down by like 50 cents. Meanwhile I'm on Claude Max @ $200/mo and GPT Plus for another $20. The OpenRouter stuff seems like less than couch change.

$0.02 :D

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1. conradev ◴[01 Jul 25 23:19 UTC] No.44438830[source]▶
proof -> show the code if you can!

Then engineers can judge for themselves

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2. schmookeeg ◴[01 Jul 25 23:28 UTC] No.44438882[source]▶
Yeahhhhhh I've been to enough code reviews / PR reviews to know this will result in 100 opinions about what color the drapes should be and what a catastrophe we've vibe coded for ourselves. If I shoot something to GH I'll highlight it for others, but nothing yet. I can appreciate this makes me look like I'm shilling.

It makes usable code for my projects. It often gets into the weeds and makes weird tesseracts of nonsense that I need to discover, tear down, and re-prompt it to not do that again.

It's cheap or free to try. It saves me time, particularly in languages I am not used to daily driving. Funnily enough, I get madder when I have it write ts/py/sql code since I'm most conversant in those, but for fringe stuff that I find tedious like AWS config and tests -- it mostly just works.

Will it rot my brain? Maybe? If this thing turns me from an engineer to a PM, well, I'll have nobody to blame but myself as I irritate other engineers and demand they fibonacci-size underdefined jira tix. :D

I think there's going to be a lot of momentum in this direction in the coming year. I'm fortunate that my clients embrace this stuff and we all look for the same hallucinations in the codebase and shut them down and laugh together, but I worry that I'm not exactly justifying my rate by being an LLM babysitter.