Seeds

There’s an interesting phenomena where, with AI agents, I feel like if I don’t have my agents running on tasks, then I’m missing out or wasting time. Part of this is because orchestrating agents is fun, but I think the “not being wasteful” portion of this is also real. Other people have written about feeling like they are missing out if they don’t have agents running, too.

We’re seemingly moving in a direction where token costs are no longer subsidized by the inference providers with their subscriptions (see Github’s recent changes to the Copilot plans). I wonder if, when I have to pay per token, I’ll be less incentivized to work with agents on the evenings and weekends? We know that agents require careful tending, and low-effort prompts or leaving them to make their own decisions often doesn’t turn out well. When I have to pay for their mistakes (instead of my subscription’s 5hr quota absorbing it), will I feel less like I’m squandering my time if I’m not using agents when I’m not at my best?

For example, I use Obsidian on desktop with markdown files, use Vim to edit it, and it’s great. I can type quickly, dictate, edit properties, etc.

On mobile, on the other hand (ie, iPad, phone, etc), plain text is painful. Special characters are buried, and it’s much easier to do a few taps to random places on the screen than it is to type out a handful of characters; precisely the opposite of when I have a keyboard.

Another interface is a pencil. Great for writing text, not so much for complicated symbols. This is an in-between of keyboard and touch; you have high precision with text, but for more complicated operations, it’s still easier to tap a button than doing a series of keystrokes.