After I see how astonishingly poor LLMs are at decision-making (even the best ones, like Claude Opus or GPT 5.4) while writing code, I naturally stop trusting them in other areas of life too much to "just have a conversation with them and get all the answers".

It's all fun and games while the stakes are non-existent, but if the question really matters, would you trust an LLM fully as much as to not exercise thinking at all?

I tried doing the same for the cases of maintaining OSS projects. So far, best I could manage is to get the agents to autonomously do %80~ of the work. But then, I have to review manually each potential PR, and almost in every case to further work with an agent providing it with guidance live to fix it. This takes about as much time as without the swarm. So far I found that the usefulness of the swarm is mostly for the initial scouting, to map out what work needs to be done in first place, and store it in a nice JSON file.

From my observations, all it takes is one mistake for an agent to make, from there, the architecture just snowballs into chaos as the future work builds on top of incorrect initial approach.

I am using daily notes currently with Obsidian + Calendar plugin. Also E2EE, available on all devices, no problems syncing, plain-old files so I am not afraid of vendor-lock and can backup any way I want.