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Over the past few years, I got pretty overwhelmed by the intensity and the constant news cycle, so I started checking out of it. Big filter list on social media, only one "good enough" publication if I needed some quick overview and important things surface up eventually.

Lately, I started using Perplexity Discover a bit more, and it got me curious about similar solutions to curate and summarize news based on what I find important, not what everyone is trying to push down my throat.

How do you keep yourself informed? AI curation? Trusted publications? Social media follows?

I feel we have all the bricks to have a great experience of learning about what's happening in the world, but instead we're drowning in clickbait articles, propaganda pieces, and even previously reputable publications have the quality of their work taking a steep dive.

I started using AI CLIs with Obsidian for document writing, reviews, research, etc.

I use OpenCode to try out various models, but haven't really landed on one specific one. These days, I use Gemini even tho I never know if it'll get stuck or not.

I'm curious if others have experience with CLI / agentic workflows for non-coding work. I'd love to hear about your experience with the various models and how you use them.

So far, my + and - are:

    +: Finally, control over the AI output, no more copy-pasting everything, contextualize every new chat. It's also way better to organize a task for the AI in Obsydian than in a chat interface.

    +: Agentic workflow is interesting, I can throw a task, go back to my work and review later

    +: API means you can keep your costs low if you're not a power user, it also means you can easily switch providers for different tasks

    +: I feel like a hacker

    -: It gets pretty complex when you want to expand the AI capabilities. Setting up RAG, MCP looks a bit daunting. You can create "agents," but they are basically a system prompt. OpenAI custom GPTs are so much easier to set up. Maybe, given the current size of the context window, I'm overthinking it.

    -: Initial setup was also not the smoothest, but I'm rusty in this area and Windows is not helping

Hey folks,

Like everyone, I'm currently experimenting a lot with AI. While there is a lot of chatter and feedback here about the base models, I found that the way to experiment, use and deploy AIs can vary a lot and be quite cumbersome.

I'd love to hear about your best tools, services and software to work easily with AI. It could be for consumers, prosumers and enterprises.

I'm personally looking for no code or low code solutions, but feel free to share your best technical finds.