u/aicodevibes

Ok, weekend effort to clean up all my config folders and consolidate everything after 9+ months of installs, deinstalls, adding skills, mcps, etc.

I consolidated what i think is correct based on documentation as it sits today. Anything below look questionable or is wrong? Currently running opus on agy to do the work on my harddrive in yolo mode. don't want to waste good gemini q u o t a

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53yo single income of 300k married joint with kids long gone and retiring at 60. With mortgage and bills about 8k per month (mortgage/taxes is 3k of it - will be done in 8 years). Our current pretax IRA balance is $2.5M and I just moved to 401k Roth 10% (plus 3% match) at work. I was told to move to Roth 401k, but then bar talk was go back to pre-tax and backdoor to 24% bracket? I’ve tried to model it out on xls but it’s a lot of moving parts. Any thoughts on pre-tax with Roth conversion vs just sticking to roth401? The math seems like i will be forced to take much more than i make today once i retire at 60 than i make now regardless so does it matter? Does pre-tax grow more if we have good years better than 7%?

Anyone running the free VPS (e2-micro) on gcloud and actively running scheduled tasks with antigravity cli? Use case is to pick up issues on git and start to validate and work those issues for prioritization, code to PR.

Looks like persistent storage and enough monthly throughput to support this use case.

Any experience out there? And using it for webhooks by configuring the firewall for inbound access from github?

If you want to turn on browser_agent (by default its off in IDE but there) here’s two steps below then run a /agents reload.

Write a skill for .agents\skills:

name: browser
description: Starts a browser subagent to perform actions in the browser or automate UI testing, SCM actions, or reading dashboards.

# Browser Automation & Subagent Guidelines

When this skill is activated (either explicitly via the `/browser` slash command or when a task requires browser interaction), the agent must invoke the `browser_subagent` tool to run tasks on web content.

and update settings.json in .gemini to include:

{
  "agents": {
"overrides": {
"browser_agent": {
"enabled": true
}
}
  }
}

I was adding and updating skills and plug-ins and MCP to AGY2.0 after running into issues with loading skills from the wrong global directory. I build everything in nextjs with firestore and saw some strange behavior. I reviewed the system prompt when i saw the dev rules section (below): but then was prompted to use /learn to change the system prompt. i don't see any docs about this slash command. Any insight?

<web_application_development>

## Technology Stack

Your web applications should be built using the following technologies:

1. **Core**: Use HTML for structure and Javascript for logic.

2. **Styling (CSS)**: Use Vanilla CSS for maximum flexibility and control. Avoid using TailwindCSS unless the USER explicitly requests it; in this case, first confirm which TailwindCSS version to use.

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Until recently I never paid Google a dime for anything. I had a nest once b4 Google but just replaced it. I was using mostly OpenAI models, I have a custom family domain with Microsoft Exchange and we had the annual M365 sub for like 100$ per year for word excel etc.

I then got hooked on AI Studio, then Gemini CLI with VSC and then AGY. I found myself using Gmail, switching to Workspace from MSFT, stopping my O365 and buying YouTube premium and Google AI Pro.

Then May 19th happened and I started to think maybe I need to step back. I just went from $0 to $960 a year with Google. Now I’m looking at adding another $900 for $1800 year for my family of 3 because Pro isn’t cutting it and need the new Ultra $100 plan. Wait, and I was convinced by a googler to drop using AGY IDE and pair AGY 2 with free cursor as my daily driver along with AI Studio, Stitch, Gcloud, Firebase, etc.

So it occurs to me, Google is thinking about ARPU with consumer, prosumer, and enterprise. They know exactly what their target ARPU is per customer type, their CAC for each, their investment and return. I guarantee it.

And I’ll probably fall for it. $2000 a year for a family of 3. And now I have to explain to the wife that blue bubbles are going away when I switch to android from iOS.

On the flip side as Berkshire Hathaway says, invest in what you like and use. So hopefully that investment of $100k in stock will help offset the annual costs with gains as Alphabet wins the long game.

Well played.

First of all, 2.0(.1) is awesome paired with 3.5. I refactored six projects in parallel with full docs and ran tests all in about five minutes. Only one error. All next, firebase, gcloud fully functioning apps. Insane speed and the harness is awesome. Terminal view is still there but you gotta find it. Actually even more access under the hood. Super happy.

The part they didn’t tell you. Google is getting out of the IDE game. Internal Google users are back to Cursor (free for us small devs since I will use 2.0 for agent efforts) with some using vscode, jetbrains or the old school just moving back to CLI including 2.0 CLI.

Lastly, quota is quota going forward. No separate quotas per model (outside of 3rd party) so effectively if you are a daily driver $100 a month it is. $20 is for weekend warriors at best.

As my spouse says it’s not the content but the delivery. I think Google needs to adopt the Ballyhoo! song California King (IYKYK) to represent this release event.

I just deployed my first firebase app hosting / backend. I had been using firestore and database a bit, so i thought i would try it. I usually use vercel or google cloud run, but wanted to try it out. I am using the firebase CLI.

I deployed the app, but then needed to setup a cron job. I can't find anything in firebase for scheduling. am i lost? i ended up using cloud scheduler in gcloud to do it.

And......I might be way late on this, but is firebase just a management layer on top of gcloud services?

I've build a dozen apps using AGY with firebase and gcloud. I have the MCP server configs and have CLI installed for both Google Cloud and Firebase. I also have neon, next-dev tools and vercel MCPs installed (for clarity). I started a new project today, gave it the project config for firebase and all of a sudden the decision was to use browser to configure everything in firebase manually? I am literally watching it drop down and define the schema in the browser.

Any idea of what may have caused this? Its never happened before. What is even stranger is it was in plan mode and it started to configure.

I built a quick app where I specifically asked for next.js since i want to use a route handler that is server side only which would use my Gemini key outside of the browser.

The app was a workspace to build remotion videos. Video on the left and chat on the right. then once complete you can download and post.

Immediately, i noticed the app was built use "use client" and the .env was NEXT_PUBLIC. the chat component imports ai.ts from lib and does not call the API safely and assume it could be found in dev tools. I tried to change it and the AIS instruction set forbids it.

So effectively, if its published to GCLOUD, then the proxy services is automatically injected in the build.....but if you push to GIT to lets say publish to Vercel, I suspect i would need to use AGY or another coding agent to refactor the code to server side?

Someone talk me off the edge here.