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Posted by steveybrown 5 days ago

Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others(mysetup.ai)
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.
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twKrash 5 days ago|
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

twKrash 5 days ago|
Ok, here it is (used MCP): https://mysetup.ai/u/twkrash
VCFundedGenYer 5 days ago||
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.

niccl 5 days ago||
I'd love to see some sort of histogram of different styles of AI usage for coding: how many people just use Chat v Claude v something fancy that I don't know about v something even fancier that I don't know about v ...

And if there were a dimension of day-job v personal use, I'd be even happier

Does anyone know if such a thing exists

johnsmith1840 5 days ago||
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.

adunsulag 5 days ago||
I've been developing my own sandboxing environment using Nvidia's Openshell.

Works like Claude code but with stronger guarantees for me on file system and network access. Still playing around with it, but so far I've been liking the setup.

I still run the sandbox inside a VM for now, but I feel far more comfortable in running Claude Code in unsupervised mode because I restrict the outbound network access and secrets never hit inside the sandbox.

johnsmith1840 4 days ago||
Why not a virtual machine or container? I'm playing around myself with some but can't shake that a VM is the right shape for it. That's my infra brain though.
ahmed89 3 days ago||
Is that mainly an EC2/shell problem for you or does the same session end up touching things like GitHub, AWS, MCP or other systems too?
ig0r0 5 days ago||
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
paul7986 5 days ago||
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?
platevoltage 5 days ago|
This is a thing? So have software engineers been relegated to being the employee at Whole Foods that babysits the self checkout kiosks?
paul7986 5 days ago||
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?

eggplantemoji69 5 days ago||
I use $20 cursor plan and use the agent UI for prompts, jetbrains ide for general file browsing + reviewing diffs. This has been my sweet spot to maintain understanding while still leveraging LLM benefits.
saadn92 5 days ago||
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
vegadw 5 days ago||
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.

saadn92 5 days ago||
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.

rmazzolini 5 days ago||
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).

saadn92 5 days ago||
neat, I'll check this out! I usually just use Termius via tailscale for ssh
patabyte 5 days ago||
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!

katspaugh 5 days ago|
Nice project!

Here’s my setup: https://mysetup.ai/u/katspaugh

Mostly vanilla Claude but inside a VM.

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