Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace

111 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by Dzheky
(github.com)

59 Comments

avaer

9 hours ago

Pewd's video provides more context [1].

I didn't see it linked from the project; it seems pretty relevant given who he is.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAzT5lcezPs

freehorse

8 hours ago

I liked this part https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAzT5lcezPs&t=524s

where he describes sending an AI generated email response as "the most polite fuck you to someone that they will never know".

The original email asked him sth like "how many parameters does deepseek v3 have" that "he could have easily searched himself".

qiine

8 hours ago

PewDiePie on Hackernews what a time to be alive!

reconnecting

7 hours ago

> Fun fact: a chunk of Odysseus was built *from a phone* -- mobile shells (Termux), the PWA install, and on-device agents. So "works on mobile" isn't an afterthought, it's where a lot of it actually happened.

https://github.com/pewdiepie-archdaemon/odysseus/commit/0517...

sangeeth96

7 hours ago

this was... hallucinated? hence the removal?

true_religion

4 hours ago

Why would that be the first thing you think of?

noitpmeder

an hour ago

Because I've seen AI do it myself? It will very readily take a lofty aim from the brainstorming phase, maybe mentioned off-hand or out of context in a planning doc somewhere, and regardless of if it's implemented it will claim it's part of the delivered product.

patosullivan

9 hours ago

Why not just use open webui?

andai

8 hours ago

I tried installing openwebui once. I gave up after the first 12 gigabytes of pip packages. Made my own LLM chat UI in 500 lines of HTML/JS. That's really all I needed.

This project does look fun though.

thayne

8 hours ago

Open webui isn't fully open source, because it doesn't allow you to change or remove Open Webui branding.

I don't know if that was a motivation for creating this, but it is a reason some people might choose not to use it.

dakolli

8 hours ago

The truth is, there's something about the vibe coder hive mind where they all create the same thing. Everyone is working on the same thing. There's hundreds of projects like this where the creator thinks they've created the most unique powerful thing.

I think it demonstrates how overuse of LLMs for brainstorming/planning and building destroys creativity. That zeitgeist changes from month to month, but when a vibe coded "AI Native" project gets released you'll always see dozens of people in the replies talking about the identical project they've also built or are working on.

I also notice this in my own work, the people who have most eaten the LLM brainworm will come to me asking for us to build the same projects. They all eventually converge to wanting some sort of power user app (like this) that can just do everything because AI is magic to them and there's no reason why it can't do everything.

I hate Peter Thiel but he has that famous quote form years ago where he says not to build the obvious thing because the obvious thing isn't special, so maybe this has always been a phenomenon.

skeledrew

7 hours ago

I think the thing is users run into the same problems (barely desirable tool UX), and arrive at very similar solutions (but with their own small twists and preferences). And now that the barrier to make things is essentially gone, they jump in and make things that git their own desires week because nothing out there was an exact fit.

Like I found a really cool project a few weeks ago that I started using and even made a few QoL changes to. Then I thought of the many other changes I wanted, and that the project was written in a language I'm not familiar with (Rust), and I started a port in what I know well (Python) so that I'll be able to actually review the code if needed and generally make better architectural decisions.

doright

7 hours ago

It's like the Lisp Curse but for everything now.

fiatpandas

4 hours ago

Watching pewd's continually evolving AI-era tech journey has brough me a lot of joy.

stalinkay

3 hours ago

Whoa! Sounds interesting, I'll be taking a deep dive.

ahmazroot

9 hours ago

What would make an existing OpenUI/Open WebUI user switch to this?

kemayo

9 hours ago

> Odysseus

Is the person best known for exploiting security vulnerabilities to get into places you'd rather they didn't, and then getting lost and taking forever to get places the ideal namesake for your AI workspace project?

anigbrowl

an hour ago

I'm rereading the Iliad right now and was just reflecting on the fact the first time you see Odysseus at work he's selling two incompatible flavors of bullshit to officers and their men, in service of a third flavor of bullshit that was decided upon in advance at a war council.

marginalia_nu

8 hours ago

Out of all the homeric heroes, the main characters are just one tragic flaw after another. Odysseus is pathologically distrustful, Achilles is a diva that throws temper tantrums.

You gotta pick a dude like Sarpedon who just was a swell guy poking holes in greeks with his spear until he gets killed by Patroclus and everyone is sad.

cyanydeez

8 hours ago

keep in mind pewdiepie is probably the worst dev name ontop

Nasrudith

8 hours ago

I can think of worse. Inspired by somewhat surrealist names of a cat video, I'm pretty sure naming them "HP Inkjet 3482" would be a worse name for an AI model and lead to copyright issues from Hewlett-Packard.

Dzheky

10 hours ago

PewDiePie build a self hosted AI workspace. It looks interesting.

UltraSane

2 hours ago

PewDiePie is living an enviable life in Japan with his wife and kid doing cool projects.

petterroea

9 hours ago

Now waiting for some VC-backed AI company to pick up PewDiePie like they did with the OpenClaw guy.

dakolli

9 hours ago

Somehow he probably will make millions from this just cuz he has a personal brand, despite it being a pile of slop.

petterroea

9 hours ago

Oh yeah definitely, if he went in for doing software he would make millions for free.

dakolli

8 hours ago

It will be interesting to watch him deal with hundreds PRs.

trvz

2 hours ago

Wake me when you can increase the awfully tiny font size of the nav.

h4ch1

9 hours ago

God the UI design is atrocious.

dakolli

9 hours ago

All these inexperienced vibe coders build identical slop UI, but what's funny is they usually think its super unique and are super proud of it. I hate them all.

okr

8 hours ago

Who are you again?

boca_honey

an hour ago

A person that is expressing something a lot of real people are feeling. AI is churning out this terrible UI / graphic desing that looks the same, gives aways is just vibe coded slop and is VERY ugly.

Who are YOU?

pushpendra3000

7 hours ago

respect for what pewdiepie's trying to do (as he explains in his video) but this is just ai slop

pushpendra3000

7 hours ago

its dense in features but the amount of security concerns and improvements would be too difficult to maintain with the way its organised currently. let's see.

micromacrofoot

8 hours ago

reminds me of the milla jovovich vibecoded ai memory project that got a little bit of hype but was mostly junk... guessing we're going to see a lot more "developer talked to a celebrity and came up with an idea for their money"

selectedambient

8 hours ago

i write an agent in C, create my own models. crickets. pewdiepie gets into programming on a whim creates slop, 3k stars.

boca_honey

44 minutes ago

Are you one of the top 100 most famous people on planet earth?

What the hell were you expecting. Your slop will fade in history... his slop will linger for months, maybe a year or two.

Then no one will care or remember about any of this.

627467

7 hours ago

Did you share your C agent and models? Would love to checkout

selectedambient

6 hours ago

sure i can share it. it started as a text editor that i incorporated an agent into then moved to a standalone agent. now i’ve got the editor, agent, and have begun work on actual from scratch models (these aren’t available yet), but i’ve been messing with fine tuning ollama coder models as something in the meantime. the goal is embedded models accessible to everyone offline. too many tasks require many less parameters than people are using on them and don’t need to be routed through data centers. mainly just built it for myself but figured others might find it neat and/or useful. it’s all C, no packages or third party libraries. also to be clear i’m not against ai, im against it making 100% of the decisions for you. outside of its own models it’s capable of OAuth with claude and gh. it can also api into many others. tooling is always ongoing maintenance and i’ve got the next version of basically all three of them on the back burner waiting to be pushed. so anyway, here’s my little setup, here’s to not getting killed in the comments. contributions also welcome. https://github.com/mithraeums/hako-code

Yiin

4 hours ago

rich of you to talk about slop when your own 'handwritten' project has one c file with over 6.5k lines of code.

selectedambient

2 hours ago

did you not read the entire post? also correct the one file IS the entire thing. compiling one file on iSh on an iPhone actually works well.

andai

8 hours ago

you forgot step 1. become the #1 youtuber

c0rruptbytes

7 hours ago

AI doesn’t have a model or agent availability problem to be fair, it does have a positive outreach problem and pewdiepie can do extremely well there

just my 2c

selectedambient

12 minutes ago

okay i watched his video on it, i can definitely abide.

folkrav

8 hours ago

Something something meritocracy blabla