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Comment by jeremyjh | original | Nix wrote half of my debugger
[−]jeremyjh · 2026-10-11 Sun 01:25 UTC · link
I think that ratio is possible, and certainly I’m counted among those numbers. However, it is not so much the case that I longed to use Nix and agents made it more feasible. What happened is that I wanted an agent to manage my machine’s configuration without giving it much access.

It’s not the only thing that agents have changed for me - I also went back to using neovim and tmux; partly because of how I use remote development servers but also because now I can get my setup working perfectly for me without a lot of hassle.

Open source and code managing all the things has always been a great idea but now it feels crazy to do anything else.