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How I run autonomous coding agents from my phone with OpenAI Symphony + Linear | Alessio Fanelli (Kernel Labs)

How I AI

5 DAYS AGO
How I AI

How I AI

5 DAYS AGO

Shownote

Alessio Fanelli, founder of Kernel Labs and co-host of Latent Space podcast, walks us through two very different AI workflows: (1) a fully autonomous coding setup using OpenAI Symphony + Linear, where Linear acts as a state machine and Symphony manages age...

Highlights

Alessio Fanelli, founder of Kernel Labs, shares his hands-on experience building two distinct AI workflows: one for autonomous coding and another for e-commerce scouting. He explains the practical shift from manually prompting agents to managing them as a system, using cloud infrastructure and project management tools to enable longer, more complex autonomous runs.
00:00
AI enables small business automation.
02:25
Shift from local agent prompting to cloud-based autonomous agent management
07:10
A task costing 221 million tokens
12:39
Avoid over-engineering agent orchestration.
14:16
Agents add instructions, not remove them.
18:06
Symphony keeps full task history in one place
21:56
Autonomous tools provide real-time pricing and inventory management.
24:18
AI bridges the physical and digital worlds
28:23
AI as a stress-reducing context offloader

Chapters

Intro
00:00
Prompter vs. agent manager
02:24
Live demo: Symphony + Linear
04:31
Setting up Symphony
09:31
Purging your skills files
14:15
The benefits of this system
18:06
Demo: Using Codex to hunt for Pokémon cards
19:10
The benefit of AI for small businesses
24:17
Lightning round
28:23

Transcript

Claire Vo: This is my favorite positive outcome of AI, which is small business creation. Just the ability to like, intersect the human world in a way that has been historically very inefficient has been a quality of life improvement for me. Alessio Fanell...