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It’s now faster to have an agent build small tools from scratch than to search for an existing one. Anyone else feel weird about this?

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I was looking for a simple htop -style terminal monitor for my local Antigravity sessions, just something lightweight to keep an eye on active agent PIDs, context window tokens, and tool usage across workspaces. I spent maybe 15 minutes digging around GitHub and Google to see if someone had already…

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  1. 2026-08-21 22:00 · r/GeminiAI
    It’s now faster to have an agent build small tools from scratch than to search for an existing one. Anyone else feel weird about this?

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