What this is NOT about - using AI or a gateway AI app as a replacement or proxy for searching the web.
What this IS about - Using great application tools to orchestrate and manage AI LLM's to enhance and improve workflows.
I was wondering if anyone here would like to discuss and share their experiences using AI tools.
For my part, I have dabbled on and off with AI over the last few years, and until recently had felt thoroughly underwhelmed by what I could manage to achieve with it and get from it. I also came away each time feeling that the much of it was just another level of track-and-trace, monetisation, en$hittification and general plunder that we so often see from the big tech companies.
However, earlier this year things started to come alive for me when I discovered the notion of 'Agentic-AI' - - - simply put at the most basic level, an application that allows me to give an AI Large Language Model the agency to perform actual tasks and do jobs for me.
These agentic applications or suites of applications come in all sorts of flavours and levels of complexity, but I have to say that as a result of discovering these tools my old established workflows have changed significantly; and I believe changed for the better.
So, my current AI toolkit typically consists of:-
Opencode - OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent
Agent-Zero - GitHub - agent0ai/agent-zero: Agent Zero AI framework
Odysseus - GitHub - odysseus-dev/odysseus: Self-hosted AI workspace.
Cherry Studio - GitHub - CherryHQ/cherry-studio: AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants. Unified access to frontier LLMs
(I dabble and evaluate others, but I keep coming back to these as often as not)
In the interests of full disclosure, I am a Linux user down to my boots; there's no room in my life for things like windows or OSX, so I might pull your leg a bit but I don't judge.
That being said, my first go-to when I need to get things done is to fire-up Opencode (which BTW, is available for pretty much all platforms), and go from there. Just by installing Opencode you get access to their house model called "Big-Pickle" which has to be one of the best models for systems admin going, and it's free to use. You can also connect to any other LLM you want whether local or via an API at another service.
When I want general inference I either run modest local models or connect to Venice-AI - Venice | Private AI for Unlimited Creative Freedom - Venice is a privacy first platform offering either or both privacy and anonymity that offers a very wide range or LLM's to choose from depending upon the type of workload or outcomes that you are looking to achieve.
So, what tools are people here using ?
What tasks are you using them for ? (for example, are you administering your Enigma2 boxes using natural language inputs ?)
Are you integrating AI/LLM's into your traditional tools and workflows of choice?
Do you have any concerns about where the use of such tools is taking the world ?
Any good ideas about how people here might be able to collaborate to make a ton of money using this stuff ?
What this IS about - Using great application tools to orchestrate and manage AI LLM's to enhance and improve workflows.
I was wondering if anyone here would like to discuss and share their experiences using AI tools.
For my part, I have dabbled on and off with AI over the last few years, and until recently had felt thoroughly underwhelmed by what I could manage to achieve with it and get from it. I also came away each time feeling that the much of it was just another level of track-and-trace, monetisation, en$hittification and general plunder that we so often see from the big tech companies.
However, earlier this year things started to come alive for me when I discovered the notion of 'Agentic-AI' - - - simply put at the most basic level, an application that allows me to give an AI Large Language Model the agency to perform actual tasks and do jobs for me.
These agentic applications or suites of applications come in all sorts of flavours and levels of complexity, but I have to say that as a result of discovering these tools my old established workflows have changed significantly; and I believe changed for the better.
So, my current AI toolkit typically consists of:-
Opencode - OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent
Agent-Zero - GitHub - agent0ai/agent-zero: Agent Zero AI framework
Odysseus - GitHub - odysseus-dev/odysseus: Self-hosted AI workspace.
Cherry Studio - GitHub - CherryHQ/cherry-studio: AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants. Unified access to frontier LLMs
(I dabble and evaluate others, but I keep coming back to these as often as not)
In the interests of full disclosure, I am a Linux user down to my boots; there's no room in my life for things like windows or OSX, so I might pull your leg a bit but I don't judge.
That being said, my first go-to when I need to get things done is to fire-up Opencode (which BTW, is available for pretty much all platforms), and go from there. Just by installing Opencode you get access to their house model called "Big-Pickle" which has to be one of the best models for systems admin going, and it's free to use. You can also connect to any other LLM you want whether local or via an API at another service.
When I want general inference I either run modest local models or connect to Venice-AI - Venice | Private AI for Unlimited Creative Freedom - Venice is a privacy first platform offering either or both privacy and anonymity that offers a very wide range or LLM's to choose from depending upon the type of workload or outcomes that you are looking to achieve.
So, what tools are people here using ?
What tasks are you using them for ? (for example, are you administering your Enigma2 boxes using natural language inputs ?)
Are you integrating AI/LLM's into your traditional tools and workflows of choice?
Do you have any concerns about where the use of such tools is taking the world ?
Any good ideas about how people here might be able to collaborate to make a ton of money using this stuff ?
