Obaid Ahmed @obaid

Building AI personal assistant @ Stealth / Prev Botmock (acq). Angel investor, advisor. Fuelled by chai. osone.ai San Francisco, CA Joined May 2007

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

a hour ago

honestly the agent setup i'd keep is one i just text. it pings me when it needs a yes, i reply yes or wait, and it gets on with it. no app to open. anyone actually running one like that every day?

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

a hour ago

@dhh how are the agents testing it, actual fresh installs on vms they click through? curious if they catch visual stuff like a broken theme or just the scripted checks

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a hour ago

@thdxr same, the logins are what killed hosted ones for me. with opencode driving your local browsers what happens when the laptop sleeps? that's the part that pushed me to give mine its own box

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a hour ago

@ekuyda the group thread part is what i'd actually use. if two people in the thread ask it for things that clash, who does it check with before it does anything?

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small rule i follow now: if an agent needs me to log in for it more than twice, it gets its own machine with a browser that stays logged in. saved me so many interruptions. what's your rule for when something gets its own setup?

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

20 hours ago

@GergelyOrosz token usage as a KPI feels like lines of code all over again. did the manager say what they actually want to see change? fewer stuck tickets, faster reviews, something?

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

21 hours ago

@emollick long running is where my setup broke first. my laptop would sleep and kill stuff halfway through, so i ended up giving each agent its own cloud machine (building that now at mola.sh). what non dev tasks are you seeing people trust for hours?

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

21 hours ago

@poteto i'm in the second camp but mostly for boring reasons. once mine got their own machines and stopped sharing my laptop i started checking in on them like coworkers instead of tools. curious which side you landed on

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

23 hours ago

@not_sacke @MCABayArea Pulled from masjids website once a day. And verses are preloaded from db.

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

24 hours ago

You can just do things now. Asked my Claude code to help me clean up and turn my tv into a display that shows prayer times from @MCABayArea along with the verses that change every time we turn on the tv. Next up a better background.

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

a day ago

sunday habit i didn't expect to keep: i read back through what my agents did all week before planning monday. half the time the most useful thing is a note one of them left me. anyone else do a weekly review of their agents?

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

a day ago

@alliekmiller computer use is the one that keeps pulling me too. do you let it drive your main laptop or give it its own machine? i moved mine off my laptop pretty fast

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

a day ago

@petergyang wait how is it doing the edits, writing ffmpeg commands or actually driving an editor?

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a day ago

@thdxr genuine question, what would you hand them first? i keep wanting to give an agent the pager but not the keys

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

2 days ago

this week's leaks are why i keep agents off my laptop. each one gets its own machine and only the logins it needs. if you still run yours locally, what keeps you there?

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

2 days ago

@GergelyOrosz honest question, are you seeing a pattern in what teams change first? code review, tickets, ci, something else?

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

2 days ago

@badlogicgames guilty, i made an expedia booking demo a couple weeks ago. what would you show instead? genuinely asking, the useful stuff is so boring it doesn't demo well

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

2 days ago

@kentcdodds same here. moving agents off my laptop onto their own cloud box was the biggest one for me, nothing on it but what that agent needs (building that at mola.sh). does your setup cover browser logins too or just api tokens?

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

3 days ago

@thdxr 170 is a lot of channels to keep up with. is anything answering the repeat questions in there yet or is it still all humans

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Obaid Ahmed @obaid

3 days ago

@rauchg restarts and redeploys i can handle. what still kills my long runs is the browser session dying with them. does durable cover that kind of state or just the agent loop?