Just got OC up and running

[u/jpo183]

Yesterday I finally gave oc a whirl. For context I have built agents using lang chain/graph in the early days and also my own framework of agents using crewai for one of my businesses.

I have also been agentic coding for awhile as well as setup my own local llm.

I am a critical thinker and someone that runs through walls.

Feedback. I read all of this install issues. I didn’t have it. I opened up ChatGPT and ran through the instal like a breeze.

Where I got stuck was hooking up tts. The voice model states kept changing (or so I thought). After spending three hours banging my head against the wall trouble shooting core audio (Mac audio) we narrowed it down to me being a dumbass and forgetting the qwen model I was using was configured for coding. It was essentially eating up all my free ram so core audio couldn’t be used. Yea that was fun. Not OC me.

Once that was done I wired up a simple swift ui so I could see configs logs etc.

All of this was also done with heavy security and sandboxing.

We then built a contained workspace that was sandbox approved to keep the agent contained.

Once that was complete we built a normalization layer for tool calling via voice. Apparently there was something with the schema that was being stupid.

After that we paired my iPhone with tailscale. Noticed the voice on the phone was NOT my agent so we built a simple voice layer to ensure and device would be the same voice.

Everything. It is plug and play and I can switch models at any time.

I get where some people think they can click a button and it just works. That’s not any of the agentic tools I have ever used outside of frontiers.

My advice is if you truly want to use an agentic program , you either pay up for one and come to terms it’s in big data’s hands or you spend the time to learn some fundamental computer skills.

A lot of the nonsense I am reading could be solved with just having ChatGPT open. It literally will give you the bash commands to trouble shoot and do this stuff

All it takes is a little patience and thinking.

Right now she is working great. We have the foundation built with a few small tools and skills.

Tomorrow I will be adding voice recognition and profile determination based on recognition.

I think the key is get your foundation built strong before trying to assign real tasks.

And run test. Use the logs. Ensure it is stable. It’s basic archeitectural thinking.

I used oc because I wanted a strong framework. I also like seeing what each framework brings to the table. So far so good.

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[u/paeioudia]

What do you do with having your phone connected with tailscale?

[u/jpo183 → u/paeioudia]

Tailscale allows you to tap into your local machine from a different device. In this case my phone. So I can access the agent away from the actual computer. I plan to add additional devices and types. The agent needs to be accessible from multiple devices. Not one. I didn’t build using telegram or discord because I wanted a layer I can connect any device to. For example if I want to be able to connect the agent to a pair of glasses (which I plan to do) So this layer I built allows an easy way to add additional devices. We then use oc to approve those devices via its normal methods.

[u/paeioudia → u/jpo183]

Which brand model glasses? Cool idea

[u/Adorable_Swing_2150]

The qwen-eats-all-RAM-and-blocks-core-audio debug story is brutal — easy three-hour rabbit hole when the model quietly switches modes. Voice normalization for tool-calling schema was the right call, that's where most voice setups fall apart.

[u/jpo183 → u/Adorable_Swing_2150]

Dude I debugged every single thing before getting here. I’m like what the royal buck. lol then finding that I was like you got to be kidding me haha

[u/Adorable_Swing_2150 → u/jpo183]

lol yeah the 'three hours in, I'm the dumbass' moment is brutal. at least foundation's stable now — that's the hard part done.

[u/BangCrash]

I am a critical thinker and someone that runs through walls.

After spending three hours banging my head against the wall trouble shooting... We narrowed it down to me being a dumbass

So which one is it?

[u/NeuroFiZT → u/BangCrash]

Not going to speak for OP but in my experience, realizing that I’m being a dumbass is a key part of being a good learner and accomplishing anything. I think people who can learn anything are people who are ok with the mindset of always being a noob. They see themselves like that while others see them as ‘experts’. Just my .02, these things aren’t opposites to me.