I've created a toy coding agent called "caducode". More of a thought experiment that materialized into a little something.
The philosophy behind it is: instead of providing a bunch of tools to the LLM, you simply provide a single tool: run_python(). The Agent just generates code to do whatever it needs, to inspect local files, to carry edits, to run commands.
I guess you sabotaged your own point with the answer. If it takes a full weekend to just have my DE look like what I feel is needed, that's a lot of time wasted that you could be doing useful work or even gaming, in that sense, idk. But to each their own.
I was a ricer before in my heydays of Linux, but now, after 25 years, I just use whatever comes by default with Xubuntu (XFCE) and a Macbook
It's not much time at all, nor is it wasted if you actually intend to stay on Linux.
My NixOS config was a much larger investment - that took a few weeks to debug. But I've used it for more than 4 years now, and it's been more stable than any other OS I've used. If you're not building it for satisfaction or /r/unixporn then you can afford to accommodate your creature comforts.
Was about to mention this. 25y+ linux user here, we all had our ricing phase, where we'd customize our desktop and shell to oblivion. Now, I'm always on a as-vanilla-as-possible Ubuntu machine, or a Macbook with the same default wallpaper that came when I bought it.
The only thing I do to my new systems is installing oh-my-zsh, because that gives me a lot of goodies for basically zero configuration (I just use and learned the default presets to be "my own")
Since we're now bragging about how vanilla our systems are, the only things I install are wezterm, nushell, helix, nix. I've moved everything else into git repo's so they're no longer system configs, but project configs.
Last week I took a repo full of notes about the sizes of building materials and made inkscape and gimp "dependencies" of that project.
Next time I install Linux I think I'm going to make the filesystem immutable so that I not only don't configure it, but can't.
I don't think this would accidentally eat at Apple's laptop market because the laptop-in-a-stick option would still need an external screen. If you're travelling for work or something, might as well just have your phone AND your laptop, instead of phone + external screen full of messy cables. but YMMV
https://github.com/flipbit03/caducode