Comment by PranayKumarJain

Yeah, if you’re comfortable wiring it together yourself, you can get ~80% of the way there with “LLM + SSH + a chat bridge”. The delta (when it’s working) is mostly plumbing + ergonomics: a long-running daemon with a consistent tool registry, background jobs/schedules, a file-based memory convention, and a bunch of integrations that are already packaged and share the same auth/permission model.

The other non-obvious bit is operational discipline: rate limits, auditability, and being able to run it in a constrained environment (VM/container, minimal mounts, separate accounts) so a prompt-injection doesn’t turn into “oops it had my whole laptop”. A DIY script can be safer too, but most people don’t end up doing the guardrails.

That said, I agree the core idea isn’t magical—packaging is the product here, and it’s still early/buggy enough that DIY often wins if you’re already set up.