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Building a Personal AI Factory

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260 points derek | 5 comments | 01 Jul 25 21:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.974s | 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. steveklabnik ◴[01 Jul 25 23:39 UTC] No.44438942[source]▶
It’s not about proof: it’s that at this point I’m a fairly heavy Claude Code user and I’d like to up my game, but I’m also not so up on many of these details that I can just figure out how to give this a try just from the description of it. I’m already doing plan-up-front workflows with just Claude, but haven’t figured out some of this more advanced stuff.

I have two MCPs installed (playwright and context7) but it never seems like Claude decides to reach for them on its own.

I definitely appreciate why you’re not posting code, as you said in another comment.

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2. Aeolun ◴[02 Jul 25 03:51 UTC] No.44440099[source]▶
> I have two MCPs installed (playwright and context7) but it never seems like Claude decides to reach for them on its own.

Not even when you add ‘memories’ that tell it to always use those tools in certain situations?

My admonitions to always run repomix at the start of coding, and always run the build command before crying victory seem to be followed pretty well anyway.

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3. steveklabnik ◴[02 Jul 25 04:45 UTC] No.44440327[source]▶
I have not done that, maybe that's the missing bit. Thanks!
4. manmal ◴[02 Jul 25 05:27 UTC] No.44440488[source]▶
What do you tell Claude to do with repomix? Get an overview into the context?
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5. Aeolun ◴[03 Jul 25 02:59 UTC] No.44451220{3}[source]▶
Yeah, it’s just a shortcut to it exploring the code for half an hour before doing something. At least it seems to make its searching more targeted.