Hey, absolute props for replying to my code by making a counter-code of your own!

I don’t have the time to look into this right now, but wanted to say that this is the best I could hope of posting my random projects here: Having someone else tell you what they would do instead.

And for context, this was a weekend experiment. I wanted to try building “agentic stuff,” and exploring the not-so-promising intersection of information theory, LLMs, and code quality.

Will edit later after I read yours.

So how does it connect to any LLM without using their API?

Well, the typical use would be by local Agent subscription. But in theory anything could work, so long as it follows the filesystem protocol. There’s a video in the repo with an example of how it works, plus a diagram.

Do you think rather than AI was used for most of the code? I don’t think it was.

If what you’re saying is that “vibe-coded” applies when “some AI was used”, and that it’s a bad thing, that’s a valid opinion that I might agree with in some contexts (like an ethical one).

It’s not, but some AI was used for the code. I think vibe coding it would have produced a very different (and larger) code base. What makes you think it’s vibe coded?

Yes. The idea is that you can have any tool on one side (which expects an OpenAI-like LLM API, which is a bit of a de facto standard), and any LLM on the other side (which can be an agent subscription).

I used this, for example, to test GraphRAG locally (which is designed to make a lot of LLM API calls) by piping it to an agent subscription I already had (and not needing to buy expensive API tokens for the low volume I needed).

Thanks!

Yeah, I don’t like agents either, so I’ll take it. This just solved a real problem I had, so I went ahead and shared it

Well, the main reason why I post my projects is for people to tell me what alternatives I’m missing, so thanks for that.

I’m actually not that familiar with Kilo, but I believe it’s an agent/IDE-extension, and that you can use different providers for it, including coding agents (I think this is what you were referring to.)

So basically my use case is more niche. I just had an external tool (Graphrag) that only worked with an LLM API, and I had just an agent subscription, so i built an agnostic protocol via the filesystem to make them work together.

It’s agnostic because you can have any tool on one side (which expects an OpenAI-like LLM API), and any LLM on the other side (which can be an agent subscription).

Nothing in Kilo would have allowed me to get Graphrag working, I think.

What in particular? Maybe I can tell you.

My initial use case was testing graphrag locally, which might become relevant at work later on, so I generalized the thing I did to get it working through an agent subscription. Actually that usage is public too: https://github.com/sebastiancarlos/graphrag-faaah

Thanks for the feedback. I’m the author of the medium blog post too.

If you have any tips on where to find a better free voice, I’m all ears. I haven’t tried chatterbox yet, that one might do it.

It could also be that the “direct blog post to video” format doesn’t cut it. But I’m still experimenting with ways to generate effective multimedia out of my content.

Btw, this is my open-source pipeline, which I use to make the video and blog post out of the same source file: https://github.com/sebastiancarlos/hacker-press

Edit: Regarding “satire”, that doesn’t apply to this blog post in particular. But I did add some jokes here and there to keep the dry topic going.

Well you know, someone has to write the great software novel of our time. If no one else was gonna do it, i had to give it a try

Lol, you know the lore

Someone has to reclaim them for mankind

Due to hug of death, backup is accessible here: https://sebastiancarlos.github.io/hacker-fables

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Yes! That’s exactly the inspiration.