tomjuggler

You might enjoy Cecli, the successor to Aider. It's made for the kind of workflow you are describing (full hands off yolo and recursive sub-agents also an option, but not the default)

cecli.dev

Linux phone cannot come soon enough

From an Android developer perspective, not good. All apps on f-droid will have to be certified by the developer with Google (it's per-app I checked) otherwise they won't work at all. And the process of not easy, even for a verified play store developer, I still have to jump through hoops to register.

Then you have to explain to users how to enable this. Not too mention the onerous F-droid requirements for publishing, it's bad enough as it is.

Average users are not going to do this, just like Google wants. Hopefully someone sues them and wins or we get Linux phones, not holding my breath though

If I remember correctly, the code base left a lot to be desired on the one I tried - it was fun but wasn't very adaptable. I'm sure you can do a better job

I meant dinosaur tamagotchi - I cannot find it on github though

Cool idea - I forgot where I found it but there was a cute dragon Tamagotchi clone that I found for Arduino a few years ago.

For ESP32 - recommend paying close attention to the FreeRtos, it's seriously powerful. Even if you are just using Arduino style code you can use it for background scheduling and interrupts (for your api and buttons for example), as well as dual core use on S3.

I feel the same but my preference is for Cecli (cecli.dev)

It does what I need it to do and since I invested so much time in setting it up and even contributing to development it is my go to for coding and even managing my VPS as well as business tasks

Thank you for the link - I was just thinking that there were some core principles missing imo and yet there they are in the full text

For me "Persevere" is probably the main one, many people in the comments here mention the difficulty of making it in a niche field, one that you love and are good at. Personally I lived in a tent/garage for 5 years before finally becoming successful.

Also "Location" resonates. I had to move to a new city when I was starting out due to over saturation in my field at home.

So I'm involved in an open source AI cli coding assistant called Cecli (cecli.dev) which is specifically designed to work well with DeepSeek.

DeepSeek is a great model, and Cecli is all about efficiency. It works great for my purposes - agentic programming on a budget.

LOL DeepSeek V4 just reduced their price to less than $1 per million tokens for Pro and people are worried about Claude

Awww I have one of those. It still works after more than 10 years!

Maybe that's what happened, everyone who needed one bought and we don't need an upgrade

Same here. I really wanted Orange Pi to work, tried, but after getting my raspberry pi 4 it's night and day.

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