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Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal

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> Never spend more than you budgeted

I assume that this is "$ spent on search + $ spent on LLM" < budget, but how do you handle the LLM spending more than you would expect on a request? Or is this handled by max_tokens and some form of pricing table? (and if so, how does caching play a role?)

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https://github.com/tw93/Mole I see a certain conflict of interest.
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How is this a conflict of interest instead of a plain naming conflict?
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Yeah, we need a name change here. Mole for Mac is a very nice system maintenance app, for both terminal and GUI.
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agreed! Name change is needed.
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DataMole? ResearchRat? DRR? (Deep Research Rat)?
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DataMole is already in use by a company [0].

[0]: https://www.datamole.ai/

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> Honest numbers

I'm glad your numbers are honest! For a moment I thought, hey, maybe this person's numbers are lying to me... but it turned out they were not so thank you!

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They are honest because they load bear the seam.
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That is a LOT of code for a pretty basic feature.
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