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New comment by carimura in "The Amazon Tax"

carimura — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:18:26 +0000

My current strategy is to skip ads and skip any name that is just a jumble of letters. But the garbage producers are getting so good with AI they can create entire websites with US addresses and pictures of buildings and employees and none of it is real.

New comment by carimura in "My Agent Setup"

carimura — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:11:16 +0000

I use the term sandbox loosely. They're on a VPS running as user hermes but they share everything with each other in their own user space. I could/should probably improve this. Maybe make them their own unix user. They are separated from the root-access agent.

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carimura — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:06:20 +0000

Obsidian is like the shared knowledge base that everyone has access to and that I can easily read/review (although I try not to too often). It has architecture stuff, go-to-market section, howtos (setting up new agents, dns backups, etc.), info on my main projects, writing, etc. It gets synced between my machine and the VPS. I also store in github as a backup occasionally (thx for reminder!).

I use the actual Buzz ios app which I was building on my own but at first glance it appears is now in the iOS store.

New comment by carimura in "My Agent Setup"

carimura — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:14 +0000

It depends on what you mean by sensitive personal data. I actually don't give any agents access to my main email boxes instead they access a business google workspace that is spinning up.

I do separate the agents duties somewhat to try and give them the least privileges they need to do a job, and talk to all of them through buzz, and they talk to each other (occasionally) when they need something they don't have access to.

As mentioned in the post I still do a majority of my coding at my local terminal with just bits and pieces sent to my "dev-agent" through Buzz. This is a next experiment for me - (that's a hyphen!) to offload more coding to agents.

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carimura — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:50:34 +0000

ah forgot about the RSS feed. thanks for the complement!

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carimura — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:48:16 +0000

that's exactly what I thought too. When I first saw Buzz I was like "oh, finally a reason to look at Nostr."

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carimura — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:47:22 +0000

two reasons that I am moderately confident in: 1) I really want something open source, but most importantly, 2) I want something easy.

My experience trying to get Discord and/or Slack to work was painful for 1 agent, let alone the potential for hundreds.

Here's the perfect example of the power of Buzz: there was some hype today about Grok Bot so i wanted to spin it up. I did, and within like 3 minutes, I had a Grok Bot talking to my other agents in Buzz, and Buzz is definitely not a supported plugin.

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carimura — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:44:15 +0000

buzz is how they communicate. they know about each other through a couple of ways: their own stored memory, a Mnemosyne bank, or a shared obsidian wiki. Or maybe they joined a linkedin for bots that I don't know about.

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carimura — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:16:29 +0000

Ya I'm starting to see that agents are just "input + llm + some memory + tools + lots of cron jobs".

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carimura — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:56:31 +0000

ya all makes sense. hoping the harness can manage some of the MCP noise. I'm using 5.6-Sol so context window is 1M.

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carimura — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:55:26 +0000

that's news to me. for what?

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carimura — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:54:24 +0000

ya i'm sure there are lower cost options. My droplet is 8 gigs mem which I found necessary for 6 agents.

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carimura — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:59:09 +0000

Not yet. The agents do have access to the web but not really a proper browser. Browserbase or equivalent is next on my list.

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carimura — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:58:18 +0000

That's neat. You could do this with Buzz by just having open room conversations with agents.

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carimura — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:48:11 +0000

(copied from comment above)

$48/month for the droplet (could probably be cheaper on Hertzner) and $100/month for OpenAI plan. so ~$150/month but again this could be cheaper with a different VPS and using Terra/Luna.

I also have a claude max plan for coding but like I mentioned in the article coding is still separate from the agents.

New comment by carimura in "My Agent Setup"

carimura — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:47:30 +0000

$48/month for the droplet (could probably be cheaper on Hertzner) and $100/month for OpenAI plan. so ~$150/month but again this could be cheaper with a different VPS and using Terra/Luna.

I also have a claude max plan for coding but like I mentioned in the article coding is still separate from the agents.

New comment by carimura in "My Agent Setup"

carimura — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:39:36 +0000

AI is far from doing everything in my setup. just looking for incremental wins to see if my slop machine can be useful.

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carimura — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:37:15 +0000

that was one of my FAQs at the bottom. I want separation of duties and least-privilege so agents can only access what they need for their particular duties.

That said, my vision is to eventually build manager agents to manage the minion agents. Like real people. I have no idea if "people" is the right analogy for all this work but my brain can't really wrap around a different analogy yet.

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carimura — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:42:23 +0000

this author agrees. hence my attempt at steering part of that trillion dollars for my non-profit which maybe someday might do some good.

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carimura — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:40:46 +0000

it's just like Slack really. I have a DM open for each agent where I can talk direct. But they are also part of individual rooms also where I just need to @ them and they open a thread. They can talk to each other also by @'ing each other (in public rooms or ones they both belong to)

It's literally just like humans.. except. not.