I am now on the MCP route, where I have lots of personally hosted MCPs. Including managing calender/e-mail.<p>It does not cost too much effort to maintain MCP servers. No port forwarding or VPNs required thanks to OpenAI tunnels.<p>And security wise its quite nice, since you have to activate MCP or give permission sometimes. So each chat is kind of isolated from each-other.
Very cool setup. I went down a similar path and while it is definitely cool to see the extent of how agentic AI can be, I agree the ROI isn't _quite_ there yet.<p>I don't live in a world where I need to be constantly reading and replying to emails, so 95% of my inbox is just subscription spam. With development I need to be at the helm to design the planning requirements and actively make decisions before the agent goes off and executes the plan. But I don't need a personal agent for that, I work directly out of codex/claude-code.
Appreciate the honesty and lack of hype.
ty for the writeup!<p>being able to talk to each of the agents via dm (but also in group chats) sounds interesting<p>does that mean that you have 1 chat per domain specific agent? can you also start multiple sessions/threads or is that not part of the way you interact with them currently?
Not pointed at the author, but at the current state of affairs: this is fucking exhausting. We went and made a trillions-dollar market out of the bikeshedding maximization machine.
No we did not.<p>LLM was invented and its just clear that this is something someone needs to build.<p>Why?<p>Because it makes just sense. You don't want an agent running on a laptop you close. You want to keep context small, you want to split up work / parallize it etc.<p>I'm now waiting for a while until the open source agent platform emerges and im borderline motivated to build something but i'm not doing it. He did, which is not a crime.
this author agrees. hence my attempt at steering part of that trillion dollars for my non-profit which maybe someday might do some good.
It's always fun seeing how other people are using these tools.<p>> Has it been worth it? For the journey, yes, for the ROI, nope.<p>It's also nice seeing someone experiment without succumbing to AI psychosis.
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