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New comment by waffleman21 in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

waffleman21 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:15:49 +0000

It may be a byproduct of my ADHD and general anxiety, or it's a common trait among all of us workers of computers, but I am thinking almost all the time. It's one of the beautiful things about the gig to be able to be completely engrossed in something else and then have an inspired thought hit you, some solution that took you not looking at it for a moment. AI now helps me turn those thoughts into action faster than I ever could. Without it, I'd lose the thread before it ever got off the ground sometimes. Now a thought can be made at least partly real from my phone in minutes, then I can go back to what I was doing without feeling like I might lose it if I look/think away again. Just my two cents on what the technology has enabled for me.

New comment by waffleman21 in "I made aipack and wanted to share"

waffleman21 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:03:35 +0000

After many personal peaks and troughs, and with much AI assistance, I was finally able to put something into the world for the first time that represented some of the ideas I've had over the last 6 months.

Packs are essentially plugins, but harness-agnostic. aipack is a CLI that can sync packs into harness-specific locations/formats. What makes this different are the profiles: profiles are parameterized collections of packs that are essentially declarative agents with sets of rules, skills, workflows, MCP, and sub-agents. You can create a personal profile that layers packs from different sources on top of each other, selectively enabling resources from each pack until you have a the exact mix of resources you want in your agent.

I've experimented with many harnesses and agents in my explorations of the tech, and I always found that myself wishing for a canonical format and location to share resources across harnesses. I also wanted to have a proper place to put org/team specific content I was working on, and for it to be importable regardless of the harness the user/engineer happened to use. So I built aipack in a fit of vibe-coding fervor.

It's not perfect, It's a mess in places (so am I), but it gets the job done. Members of my team are excited about it, and other teams are beginning to convert their un-organized rules/skills/etc. into pack format, and that means a lot to me.

The thing I haven't gotten is real, public perspective and feedback. If you think this has a place potentially as the next layer of AI configuration abstraction, please share your thoughts. If you have valid critique of my post, the tool I built, or the pack ecosystem I'm envisioning, please share that too.