I kept seeing engineers share what they were building with AI; however, I was always more curious about how they worked. Which agents did they use? What skills and tools had stuck or been thrown out the window? How did they manage longer-running tasks? So I built this with the hope we could have a dedicated space to share and be open about our setups.
This is a wonderful idea - didnt know I was looking for this until I started browsing. I found it helpful with surfacing that which I didnt-know-I-didnt-know.
I was immediately hoping for some local-AI setups that do real work, on limited resources. Unfortunately it looks like this is still waiting on more people to share.
Not a SWE, but I do Freetoken (backend) + unsloth (front) to run qwen 3.6 35B A3B NVFP4 (~20GB) in 8GB VRAM + ~20GB RAM. Getting around 50 t/s on a 3070. I don't think I can even share through this site.
If not coding what do you use it for? Also what kind of performance do you tend to get out of it? I've been thinking about a similar setup but am skeptical it's worth the effort.
It's still typically for code, like python data stuff, bash scripts, general web search, small javascript stuff for my website. By saying not SWE, I mean I don't really see much benefit from "agentic" stuff, although I've tried. 50 t/s means 40~60 seconds for a typical thinking response. I used to run gemma 4 e4b-it-qat fully in GPU (~150 t/s), but the quality improvement moving to a much larger MoE model was 100% worth the switch. Especially because I had a lot of idle ram (from the before times :( ). There is some tradeoff in terms of context length, but I just use it as a chat. Also it's fairly trivial to setup as long as the GPU is supported.
This feels self-selective to how some people work, because it requires using MCP to contribute.
I'm a reasonably heavy AI user, and have some custom skills/MCP servers I'd share, but there is no way in hell I'm connecting to some arbitrary MCP server and connecting my Github account to it. Noppppeeeee.
One MCP server for doing automated code quality checking, using Valknut, Jscpd, and Lizard to output scores, combine/aggregate them. That's then give to the model so that it can see if there's a mess of code dupe or if there was significant architectural regression. It's allowed to say "This is worth it" but it ground it a bit and stops really stupid, short sighted, hacked-in features
Another uses https://github.com/thejens/id-token-nicer so that the model doesn't bork a big ID without being noticed. It's told to translate in and out of that as necessary.
I had it write it's own skill for making sure to follow some sane commenting/style guides per language, that way it doesn't just give me massive files with no comments.
Finally, a last one lets Antigravity or Codex call out to local models as workers, for long running background tasks where a cheap, dumb model is fine. Saves on overall token usage.
On top of that, the way people work is notable: Do you use worktrees for agents? Why/why not? Do you have only one subscription? What level? I'm using both Codex at $20/mo and Antigravity at (promo) $5/mo right now. Antigravity's TOS says you MUST use their harness, which informs some of my skill setup/workflow. Do you make your agents.md self modifying, write it yourself, or not use one at all? Do you use a sandbox or YOLO it?
Even just how you prompt matters. On Antigravity/Gemini, I can give it a big list-o-TODOs and have it make a very detailed implementation plan itself, carry it out, and generally do the thing, all unsupervised. Codex, from what I have experienced, isn't as good at that. Doing the planning as a separate step, writing to a file, then telling it to step-by-step it with commits for each step makes it work okay again though.
ShareYourAISetup folks create a skill that user can run locally that collects information re their setup, formats it and sends to dedicated endpoint. Result = fairly uniform reports where people share what they're comfortable sharing.
No requirement from given user to spend their time. Users see what the skill does.
I guess atm they dont know what questions they want to be asking
The setups I wrote down three months ago are already half wrong, tools churn that fast. Do entries show a last-updated date so I can tell what's stale?
my setup heavily involves using tailscale to secure everything, because a lot of the tools I have are internal and need to be protected at all costs. tailscale is so awesome! highly recommend to secure your networks
just certain dashboards that display my personal financial information, housing stuff, and some goals/trackers I have around projects I run.
I do work mainly on my desktop, but let's say I'm traveling right, I'd have to turn it off and was missing access to some pretty important information, so I ended up getting a VM and hosting some of those things on there instead. I still use both, but things I want available, I'll host it on my "homelab" and secure both machines via tailscale. it's pretty easy and it ensures that only my phone, my main mac, and my homelab have access to each other and nothing else.
Love the idea! Would love it if you could add a method to share your setup that doesn't involve MCP... I don't use MCP servers in my setup but I wish that didn't then exclude me from being able to share my setup.
Are people actually paying API pricing for claude to hook it up to Pi or openclaw or is there a secret trick? The subscription price is palatable but for me the token price generally isn't.
I'm using https://pi.dev/packages/pi-claude-agent-sdk to use the claude sub, but it has the drawbacks of being forced through the claude-sdk. You would still be using the claude system prompt etc., which is one of the main reasons I started using Pi over claude-code.
For my workflow I primarily use a Codex subscription, but farm out adversarial reviews to Fable to clean up unnecessary gpt-ish code (lots of over-engineering). All my UI planning is done with fable, but implemented with OAI agents once I have a solid very specific plan.
Ah perfect thanks. I have codex for personal projects but Claude at work and they get mad if I start going into extra usage. Claude code does most of what I need but would be nice to get another layer of abstraction so I could have like a chief of staff agent that manages the separate coding teams working on features.
It'd be useful to see "approx monthly cost" or something similar. I love seeing other people's setups, but the first post I clicked on describes at least $400/mo in subscription plans.
I been working and making things with AI agents since Windsurf days, here's what works for me after experimenting and working for a while with these things. As far as the agent goes I find whatever the latest OpenAI model is out worked best for me. This company has burned me the least and I like the models. I tried many but consistency of OpenAI models cant be beat IMO. Though we are post honeymoon phase now I feel like so I am now experimenting with cheaper alternatives like Deepseek 4.1 flash and so on. I don't trust Anthropic as the downgrade my models consistently and its rare i get to use what I pay for. I wont even get in to discussing Google agents for obvious reasons, grok I never used though Grok bot looks interesting.
For skills I make my own, but most important is the custom setup i have. Voice is how I use all of my agents. I have an extremely well optimized voice setup that i custom built so I can talk to my agents and also hear them. The voice stack itself is very low latency and high quality. asr (parakeet v3), tts (omnivoice) take no more then 400-450 ms total as far as latency budget is concerned, rest is on the agents actual decode speed. IMO this setup is crucial for all antigenic work, i can express myself a lot better with speech and also give a lot more context and nuance with voice, i rarely type. I still look at the terminal window because my agent knows to keep the technical details in text form versus barfing them at my voice channel, plus terminal gives me lots of other important data about the agents direction and what hes doing, nothing custom here though. I cant emphesise how important voice is though, it has to be practiced to really understand.
As the models got better I now trust them with longer and longer tasks though I still don't use /goal feature as it has never worked out well for me. Theres no need for micromanagement any more but you still need to be there to steer the ship somewhat. BTW, codex cli compaction is garbage so I made my own custom implementation that works a lot better and allows the thread to be used indefinitely without issues. I strongly suggest everyone makes a new thread after extensive use if you havent made your own implementation.
Theres about a billion other things I could get in to like subagents, cohort groups, orchestration layers, etc... But this is a good start imo.
As always with smallish tools/services like these whipped up with an LLM, I find there's more value in seeing the "source code", i.e. the prompt itself.
Turns out it's quite useful in this instance, and I just made a small couple of tweaks to get a summary of my own workflow.
FWIW, this is what I modified it to:
Help me share how I work with AI with my teammates.
Use our existing conversations and relevant local tools within my permissions to discover my agents, harnesses, skills, connections and working practices. Keep secrets, raw configuration and private project details out of the draft. Explain how my tools work together and develop a concrete workflow where the evidence supports it, rather than listing installed software. Draft from what you know without a questionnaire; ask one short question only if an essential gap prevents a useful draft. If local inspection is unavailable, use our conversation without claiming otherwise. Save a private draft, show me the exact preview, and wait for my explicit approval before publishing.
Do you plan to synthesize the data and show top 2 Popular setups? This would be for newbies who want to start with a powerful setup, and for those looking to discover new tools. Thanks!
I don't especially want to interact with the site, but I have built two tools:
An agent sandbox: https://github.com/pjlsergeant/byre -- a truly gigantic amount of thought and effort has gone into it. It's really focused on developer experience. I have used it all day every day for really quite a while. It's a low-magic wrapper over Docker / Podman. I would encourage you to ask your agent to code-review it!
An agent-to-agent message board: https://github.com/pjlsergeant/dogpark -- this is much less mature, but a good amount of thought has gone into the design, so if that's something you need, please check it out.
Locking this to X accounts destroys nearly all of the value for me, because the data is limited to only setups from people who are still using X. Given how overtly authoritarian and hateful the general rhetoric is on that site, this narrows it down to only a specific kind of person's setup. Given the context of what X is, one can largely assume that X account holders are biased, at least to the degree that they can tolerate the toxic rhetoric elevated by that site and it's owner.
All of the smartest, most effective people I know don't have X accounts anymore on ethical grounds, and don't miss it. If a data source specifically excludes the kinds of people I respect most, that data source is all but useless to me.
Maybe off topic - I really like the design of the site, it feels like it was designed with care which (no offence) is often not the case with AI focused websites. Was it hand designed, or just the right claude design prompt?
Can't most agents just self-add their own MCP servers now, would be nice to just have a universal prompt for more complex agents, not everyone just uses claude/codex/pi!
20 year industry vet here. Yeah, no thank you. In the age of AI, developer productivity and job security will involve your proprietary workflow. It no longer makes sense to share your knowledge with the world.
This is true. I also think part of your job security will be constantly racing on this treadmill to make sure you're able to incorporate that next model (if applicable). Meaning incorporate your tools, existing knowledge, harnesses, configs etc...
I've also worked 20 years in the industry, and if feel completely the opposite. Having a great setup and pipeline that works for you is a huge plus, but nothing can replace the intuition and knowhow you have built up with experience. Sharing is still caring, and we should not stop caring
Serious question, why? Nobody gives a fuck if I'm out of a job, especially OpenAI and Anthropic. They stole the worlds knowledge to put us out of a job and arguably took away what it means to be a human. Why should I contribute anything more to that?
Solving hard problems will be the only thing that separates you from others. Your mindset and tools should be a trade secret at this point.
Two years ago, I'd consider this attitude as ungrateful. Today, this attitude is 100% correct and I slowly start to be like that.
People might think I'm a dick, I don't care, my tools, my knowledge, my job security. I actually recently thought of nuking the entire IaC setup and go back to shell scripts on random virtual machines. Too bad that Claude can figure things like that out pretty easily. Well, the world sucks now.
I've landed here as well, but by force. I've actually tried to share some of the productivity and workflow tools I've built with AI that help automate portions of my work, specifically on target firmware debugging, and everyone at work just...ignored it. Didnt care. Of the small number of people who even stopped to look, a few of them were actively negative. Maybe I didnt sell it hard enough, but my job isnt to sell productivity tools internally (or even make them, i did it for myself). So, I'll keep making myself more productive and build tools for myself. And everyone else will just have to figure out their own path. I tried to help, but oh well.
My local setup is:
- Windows
- WizzTerm
- `herdr` + `Pi` harness + codex for 20$
It's hard to maintain the 5h limits, however I found out that with some plugins + using model luna:max can be really helpful. With distinct and accurate tasks I was able to reduce costs a lot and now my 5h limit just resets without beeing fully used.
As a fallback I have qwen3.8 27B and deepseek-flash
So I have to connect over MCP or log into github through the page to share anything? How about being able to post a markdown summary of my setup instead of plugging my credentials and tools into a third party site?
Strix HALO 128gb - Framework mainboard in a custom SFF PC. Just moved from Ubuntu to Fedora 44.
Using: LM Studio (primary), Lemonade, not yet got into vLLM and llama.cpp directyly after moving to Fedora.
Running Gemma e4b, Gemma 4 26b a4b IT, Qen 3.6 35b a3b, and Qwen 3.8 27B. I want to get Qwen 3.8 Next or similar large models working but have to dedicate the system to that vs running services and smaller models for them.
Subwave is all I'm actively running against the local LLMs, but I have vscode connected through a few extensions and chat tools (I've added LM Studio to Copilot Chat but it likes to use cloud models and burn tokens sometimes). I've also set up pi, Openhands, and a few other tools but haven't had a project to work on with them.
I built an app to track and move PC parts I own between systems, partially to build a better LLM server. The next hardware goal is adding a 3060 12gb for inference, or what can be run on that vs in system memory on the Strix Halo. That will need a dock or small PCIe extension cable.
My employer has us using Copilot a lot, and it works well enough if you are efficient or set up already. I do infra not development and local models are seemingly enough for most asks like automation scripting.
You can post Markdown through the editor, but yes, it requires signing in. I took the liberty of treating your comment as a submission. https://mysetup.ai/setup-selicos-example
This is so complicated, I would have to install mcp-adapter to Pi etc. I just have a public github repo with my Pi setup https://github.com/igorkulman/pi-skills
Am I the only one using zed? Mostly I use it with Mistral but I also have deepseek in there. I find a good workflow is to store issues in markdown files and write thorough issue descriptions that reference relevant files. Then I can just ask the zed agent to implement the issue and it works pretty well.
Ec2 + codex or claude and tmux so you can move about. Control EC2 permissions outside the node. Not really much value beyond that.
Only layer beyond this I want is the permission scoping, stronger sandboxing per session and centralized control. I have not seen a clean product around this though where I own the compute.
A few software engineer friends' employers are requiring them to point AI (Claude) at Jira tickets to complete their tasks. Are your companies requiring this too, and how effective are the current models at actually completing the work precisely?
I just saw two facebook friends post about it and asked the OP how successful the latest models are and he said it isnt a mess just some fixes here and there are needed.
I was wondering if other employers are asking their SWE to do the same?
This is a wonderful idea - didnt know I was looking for this until I started browsing. I found it helpful with surfacing that which I didnt-know-I-didnt-know.
Thank you for putting this together!
I was immediately hoping for some local-AI setups that do real work, on limited resources. Unfortunately it looks like this is still waiting on more people to share.
Not a SWE, but I do Freetoken (backend) + unsloth (front) to run qwen 3.6 35B A3B NVFP4 (~20GB) in 8GB VRAM + ~20GB RAM. Getting around 50 t/s on a 3070. I don't think I can even share through this site.
If not coding what do you use it for? Also what kind of performance do you tend to get out of it? I've been thinking about a similar setup but am skeptical it's worth the effort.
It's still typically for code, like python data stuff, bash scripts, general web search, small javascript stuff for my website. By saying not SWE, I mean I don't really see much benefit from "agentic" stuff, although I've tried. 50 t/s means 40~60 seconds for a typical thinking response. I used to run gemma 4 e4b-it-qat fully in GPU (~150 t/s), but the quality improvement moving to a much larger MoE model was 100% worth the switch. Especially because I had a lot of idle ram (from the before times :( ). There is some tradeoff in terms of context length, but I just use it as a chat. Also it's fairly trivial to setup as long as the GPU is supported.
This feels self-selective to how some people work, because it requires using MCP to contribute.
I'm a reasonably heavy AI user, and have some custom skills/MCP servers I'd share, but there is no way in hell I'm connecting to some arbitrary MCP server and connecting my Github account to it. Noppppeeeee.
Agree. I was going to type in my setup, but no way I'm touching the instructions on https://mysetup.ai/connect. Also I don't use Codex, Claude, or Pi.
There has to be a much better way to share your setup
Any setup that is longer than a sentence or two of plain text is almost certainly overcomplicated.
Not really?
I have some custom skills/MCP servers I use:
one MCP server for using https://usefeyn.com/blog/pulpie-pareto-optimal-models-for-cl... ran locally so that reading web pages is cheaper and uses up less context
One MCP server for doing automated code quality checking, using Valknut, Jscpd, and Lizard to output scores, combine/aggregate them. That's then give to the model so that it can see if there's a mess of code dupe or if there was significant architectural regression. It's allowed to say "This is worth it" but it ground it a bit and stops really stupid, short sighted, hacked-in features
Another uses https://github.com/thejens/id-token-nicer so that the model doesn't bork a big ID without being noticed. It's told to translate in and out of that as necessary.
I had it write it's own skill for making sure to follow some sane commenting/style guides per language, that way it doesn't just give me massive files with no comments.
Finally, a last one lets Antigravity or Codex call out to local models as workers, for long running background tasks where a cheap, dumb model is fine. Saves on overall token usage.
I also have a few skills from the internet setup. https://github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill being the most important one.
On top of that, the way people work is notable: Do you use worktrees for agents? Why/why not? Do you have only one subscription? What level? I'm using both Codex at $20/mo and Antigravity at (promo) $5/mo right now. Antigravity's TOS says you MUST use their harness, which informs some of my skill setup/workflow. Do you make your agents.md self modifying, write it yourself, or not use one at all? Do you use a sandbox or YOLO it?
Even just how you prompt matters. On Antigravity/Gemini, I can give it a big list-o-TODOs and have it make a very detailed implementation plan itself, carry it out, and generally do the thing, all unsupervised. Codex, from what I have experienced, isn't as good at that. Doing the planning as a separate step, writing to a file, then telling it to step-by-step it with commits for each step makes it work okay again though.
Yeah, there is... Post your tooling to GitHub and link to it with a human-written description in a place like HN or Reddit.
I don't know why this has to be reinvented?
Ah yes, just what people want, 50,000 posts about your AI setup on HN.
Concentrating certain types of information can be useful. You don't go to an encyclopedia looking for a recepie.
ShareYourAISetup folks create a skill that user can run locally that collects information re their setup, formats it and sends to dedicated endpoint. Result = fairly uniform reports where people share what they're comfortable sharing.
No requirement from given user to spend their time. Users see what the skill does.
I guess atm they dont know what questions they want to be asking
From my years of watching people casually `curl randomsite.com/install.sh | bash` you might be a minority there
Thanks for checking out, I've added support for manual entry without MCP: https://mysetup.ai/connect
No Codex, Claude, or Pi... now you have peaked my interest with your setup :P
*piqued
haha was also going to mention this at the risk of pedantry
I prefer OpenCode over Codex/Claude/Pi
Fair point, MCP contribution was always optional, although not obvious. I've updated it to make manual contributions outside of MCP more prominent
I stopped reading after "Ask them on X", but contribution by MCP just compounds on the issue.
Maybe I'm missing out, but I've never used a single MCP, ever.
I recommend using spotify mcp server (if you use spotify), it freed me from the loop of listening to the same stuff again and again :P
that's interesting and helpful.. I have like 2k+ liked songs and Spotify always plays the same ones... Will try it out, thanks
"What's the craic" immediately jumped out at me, of course you're from Belfast :)
Cool project!
The setups I wrote down three months ago are already half wrong, tools churn that fast. Do entries show a last-updated date so I can tell what's stale?
Just ask AI to update it /s
Archive.org view => https://web.archive.org/web/20260917144911/https://mysetup.a...
my setup heavily involves using tailscale to secure everything, because a lot of the tools I have are internal and need to be protected at all costs. tailscale is so awesome! highly recommend to secure your networks
What internal tools are you having the LLM access? I have a server, but I just host whatever MCP servers and what not on device, not on the server.
I also pretty much exclusively work at my desktop - if you use multiple systems I can see where this matters.
just certain dashboards that display my personal financial information, housing stuff, and some goals/trackers I have around projects I run.
I do work mainly on my desktop, but let's say I'm traveling right, I'd have to turn it off and was missing access to some pretty important information, so I ended up getting a VM and hosting some of those things on there instead. I still use both, but things I want available, I'll host it on my "homelab" and secure both machines via tailscale. it's pretty easy and it ensures that only my phone, my main mac, and my homelab have access to each other and nothing else.
I use tailscale + https://herdr.dev/ with ssh to connect my laptop/phone.
For my phone I have tailscale + https://termrover.sh/, but https://getmoshi.app/ is also pretty good (herdr integration is paywalled).
neat, I'll check this out! I usually just use Termius via tailscale for ssh
Love the idea! Would love it if you could add a method to share your setup that doesn't involve MCP... I don't use MCP servers in my setup but I wish that didn't then exclude me from being able to share my setup.
Consider it done :) Manual now available - looking forward to seeing it.
yay thank you! Added it.
Are people actually paying API pricing for claude to hook it up to Pi or openclaw or is there a secret trick? The subscription price is palatable but for me the token price generally isn't.
I'm using https://pi.dev/packages/pi-claude-agent-sdk to use the claude sub, but it has the drawbacks of being forced through the claude-sdk. You would still be using the claude system prompt etc., which is one of the main reasons I started using Pi over claude-code.
For my workflow I primarily use a Codex subscription, but farm out adversarial reviews to Fable to clean up unnecessary gpt-ish code (lots of over-engineering). All my UI planning is done with fable, but implemented with OAI agents once I have a solid very specific plan.
Ah perfect thanks. I have codex for personal projects but Claude at work and they get mad if I start going into extra usage. Claude code does most of what I need but would be nice to get another layer of abstraction so I could have like a chief of staff agent that manages the separate coding teams working on features.
this would be cool to be extended to local AI configs
It'd be useful to see "approx monthly cost" or something similar. I love seeing other people's setups, but the first post I clicked on describes at least $400/mo in subscription plans.
I been working and making things with AI agents since Windsurf days, here's what works for me after experimenting and working for a while with these things. As far as the agent goes I find whatever the latest OpenAI model is out worked best for me. This company has burned me the least and I like the models. I tried many but consistency of OpenAI models cant be beat IMO. Though we are post honeymoon phase now I feel like so I am now experimenting with cheaper alternatives like Deepseek 4.1 flash and so on. I don't trust Anthropic as the downgrade my models consistently and its rare i get to use what I pay for. I wont even get in to discussing Google agents for obvious reasons, grok I never used though Grok bot looks interesting.
For skills I make my own, but most important is the custom setup i have. Voice is how I use all of my agents. I have an extremely well optimized voice setup that i custom built so I can talk to my agents and also hear them. The voice stack itself is very low latency and high quality. asr (parakeet v3), tts (omnivoice) take no more then 400-450 ms total as far as latency budget is concerned, rest is on the agents actual decode speed. IMO this setup is crucial for all antigenic work, i can express myself a lot better with speech and also give a lot more context and nuance with voice, i rarely type. I still look at the terminal window because my agent knows to keep the technical details in text form versus barfing them at my voice channel, plus terminal gives me lots of other important data about the agents direction and what hes doing, nothing custom here though. I cant emphesise how important voice is though, it has to be practiced to really understand.
As the models got better I now trust them with longer and longer tasks though I still don't use /goal feature as it has never worked out well for me. Theres no need for micromanagement any more but you still need to be there to steer the ship somewhat. BTW, codex cli compaction is garbage so I made my own custom implementation that works a lot better and allows the thread to be used indefinitely without issues. I strongly suggest everyone makes a new thread after extensive use if you havent made your own implementation.
Theres about a billion other things I could get in to like subagents, cohort groups, orchestration layers, etc... But this is a good start imo.
Tried voice, I can never get it to translate technical names well, e.g. "systemctl", weird paths, etc.
As always with smallish tools/services like these whipped up with an LLM, I find there's more value in seeing the "source code", i.e. the prompt itself.
Turns out it's quite useful in this instance, and I just made a small couple of tweaks to get a summary of my own workflow.
FWIW, this is what I modified it to:
Help me share how I work with AI with my teammates.
Use our existing conversations and relevant local tools within my permissions to discover my agents, harnesses, skills, connections and working practices. Keep secrets, raw configuration and private project details out of the draft. Explain how my tools work together and develop a concrete workflow where the evidence supports it, rather than listing installed software. Draft from what you know without a questionnaire; ask one short question only if an essential gap prevents a useful draft. If local inspection is unavailable, use our conversation without claiming otherwise. Save a private draft, show me the exact preview, and wait for my explicit approval before publishing.
If a site like reddit gates off its content, you expand all comments, CTRL A, CTRL C, and paste into a text file that you feed into the bot.
I do this for a lot of things actually. If the bot can't see/read something, take the content and dump it to a file, then have the bot read that.
Gets around a lot of red tape of asking for approval for "integrations" or when companies are snippy.
Do you plan to synthesize the data and show top 2 Popular setups? This would be for newbies who want to start with a powerful setup, and for those looking to discover new tools. Thanks!
I don't especially want to interact with the site, but I have built two tools:
An agent sandbox: https://github.com/pjlsergeant/byre -- a truly gigantic amount of thought and effort has gone into it. It's really focused on developer experience. I have used it all day every day for really quite a while. It's a low-magic wrapper over Docker / Podman. I would encourage you to ask your agent to code-review it!
An agent-to-agent message board: https://github.com/pjlsergeant/dogpark -- this is much less mature, but a good amount of thought has gone into the design, so if that's something you need, please check it out.
I have a tendency to use documentation as a quality bar. Byre might be great but I can't continue reading this slop.
Locking this to X accounts destroys nearly all of the value for me, because the data is limited to only setups from people who are still using X. Given how overtly authoritarian and hateful the general rhetoric is on that site, this narrows it down to only a specific kind of person's setup. Given the context of what X is, one can largely assume that X account holders are biased, at least to the degree that they can tolerate the toxic rhetoric elevated by that site and it's owner.
All of the smartest, most effective people I know don't have X accounts anymore on ethical grounds, and don't miss it. If a data source specifically excludes the kinds of people I respect most, that data source is all but useless to me.
Isn’t this on GitHub login? I didn’t need to use X to login
Maybe off topic - I really like the design of the site, it feels like it was designed with care which (no offence) is often not the case with AI focused websites. Was it hand designed, or just the right claude design prompt?
Astra + Fable certainly built it, but I knew the design I wanted as an outcome, rather than iterating with models without a clear end goal.
When people do the latter, I feel it's easy to spot an AI design.
Can't most agents just self-add their own MCP servers now, would be nice to just have a universal prompt for more complex agents, not everyone just uses claude/codex/pi!
Absolutely not. This is inherently insecure.
20 year industry vet here. Yeah, no thank you. In the age of AI, developer productivity and job security will involve your proprietary workflow. It no longer makes sense to share your knowledge with the world.
I'd highly advise people don't do this.
Until the next model update...
This is true. I also think part of your job security will be constantly racing on this treadmill to make sure you're able to incorporate that next model (if applicable). Meaning incorporate your tools, existing knowledge, harnesses, configs etc...
20 years ? already vet ? I though that I'm still young :)
I've also worked 20 years in the industry, and if feel completely the opposite. Having a great setup and pipeline that works for you is a huge plus, but nothing can replace the intuition and knowhow you have built up with experience. Sharing is still caring, and we should not stop caring
Serious question, why? Nobody gives a fuck if I'm out of a job, especially OpenAI and Anthropic. They stole the worlds knowledge to put us out of a job and arguably took away what it means to be a human. Why should I contribute anything more to that?
Solving hard problems will be the only thing that separates you from others. Your mindset and tools should be a trade secret at this point.
completely agree. Same 20 years in the industry
Two years ago, I'd consider this attitude as ungrateful. Today, this attitude is 100% correct and I slowly start to be like that.
People might think I'm a dick, I don't care, my tools, my knowledge, my job security. I actually recently thought of nuking the entire IaC setup and go back to shell scripts on random virtual machines. Too bad that Claude can figure things like that out pretty easily. Well, the world sucks now.
I've landed here as well, but by force. I've actually tried to share some of the productivity and workflow tools I've built with AI that help automate portions of my work, specifically on target firmware debugging, and everyone at work just...ignored it. Didnt care. Of the small number of people who even stopped to look, a few of them were actively negative. Maybe I didnt sell it hard enough, but my job isnt to sell productivity tools internally (or even make them, i did it for myself). So, I'll keep making myself more productive and build tools for myself. And everyone else will just have to figure out their own path. I tried to help, but oh well.
Exactly this. I've worked hard year after year, paid too much taxes, and still haven't gotten job security in return. Living costs are still rising.
No thanks to sharing anything for free.
Maybe once I have retirement levels of money, and when I'm not actually working for the money, I'll be interested in sharing.
Exactly. In fact, hiring may be conducted almost entirely based on what kind of tools and skills you build that no one else really has access to.
My local setup is: - Windows - WizzTerm - `herdr` + `Pi` harness + codex for 20$ It's hard to maintain the 5h limits, however I found out that with some plugins + using model luna:max can be really helpful. With distinct and accurate tasks I was able to reduce costs a lot and now my 5h limit just resets without beeing fully used.
As a fallback I have qwen3.8 27B and deepseek-flash
Ok, here it is (used MCP): https://mysetup.ai/u/twkrash
My local setup: I begrudgingly open `claude` on a terminal, hate it for 8 hours, then turn off my computer and forget it exists. Rinse and repeat
"Industry standard"
Nice project!
Here’s my setup: https://mysetup.ai/u/katspaugh
Mostly vanilla Claude but inside a VM.
I don't know who any of these people are, couldn't find a way to search/filter by hardware, then promptly bounced out.
These setups tend to be very specific to someone's workflow and stack, so attempting to follow them may be more detrimental than useful.
So I have to connect over MCP or log into github through the page to share anything? How about being able to post a markdown summary of my setup instead of plugging my credentials and tools into a third party site?
Strix HALO 128gb - Framework mainboard in a custom SFF PC. Just moved from Ubuntu to Fedora 44. Using: LM Studio (primary), Lemonade, not yet got into vLLM and llama.cpp directyly after moving to Fedora. Running Gemma e4b, Gemma 4 26b a4b IT, Qen 3.6 35b a3b, and Qwen 3.8 27B. I want to get Qwen 3.8 Next or similar large models working but have to dedicate the system to that vs running services and smaller models for them.
Subwave is all I'm actively running against the local LLMs, but I have vscode connected through a few extensions and chat tools (I've added LM Studio to Copilot Chat but it likes to use cloud models and burn tokens sometimes). I've also set up pi, Openhands, and a few other tools but haven't had a project to work on with them.
I built an app to track and move PC parts I own between systems, partially to build a better LLM server. The next hardware goal is adding a 3060 12gb for inference, or what can be run on that vs in system memory on the Strix Halo. That will need a dock or small PCIe extension cable.
My employer has us using Copilot a lot, and it works well enough if you are efficient or set up already. I do infra not development and local models are seemingly enough for most asks like automation scripting.
You can post Markdown through the editor, but yes, it requires signing in. I took the liberty of treating your comment as a submission. https://mysetup.ai/setup-selicos-example
This is so complicated, I would have to install mcp-adapter to Pi etc. I just have a public github repo with my Pi setup https://github.com/igorkulman/pi-skills
Am I the only one using zed? Mostly I use it with Mistral but I also have deepseek in there. I find a good workflow is to store issues in markdown files and write thorough issue descriptions that reference relevant files. Then I can just ask the zed agent to implement the issue and it works pretty well.
Ec2 + codex or claude and tmux so you can move about. Control EC2 permissions outside the node. Not really much value beyond that.
Only layer beyond this I want is the permission scoping, stronger sandboxing per session and centralized control. I have not seen a clean product around this though where I own the compute.
Is there any way to upload images? People will appreciate my setup a lot more of they can see what it looks like
Added support for images, markdown toolbar icon is now available. Looking forward to seeing it.
craic? really?
A few software engineer friends' employers are requiring them to point AI (Claude) at Jira tickets to complete their tasks. Are your companies requiring this too, and how effective are the current models at actually completing the work precisely?
This is a thing? So have software engineers been relegated to being the employee at Whole Foods that babysits the self checkout kiosks?
I just saw two facebook friends post about it and asked the OP how successful the latest models are and he said it isnt a mess just some fixes here and there are needed.
I was wondering if other employers are asking their SWE to do the same?
neat idea, I'm in there as @ucsandman!