2026-04-08 Wed

• Filed

  • Numtide does Nix packages for AI/Coding/Tools

    • Numtide/llm-agents.nix

      • Learning nix

        • I'm getting to know more of nix's surface area and some of its drawbacks.

        • What I want

          • easily keep dependencies up to date (within at least two weeks of freshness)
          • quickly add a new cli tool, whether that's on pip or npm or some other system

        • What I have so far

          • what works
            • there is often a way to do it in the nix ecosystem, whether that's managing dotfiles with Nix/home-manager, managing system-level dependencies, managing Python Versions, managing NodeJS/v
          • what doesn't
            • nixpkgs is often lagging a month to a year behind the latest packages in terms of freshness
              • it takes time to find yet alone vet community-submitted package collections (such as Numtide)
              • it's unclear whether security solutions like HeelerAI or Snyk are going to work well with Nix; they seem pretty oriented at more traditional package managers
  • GitHub/CoPilot/CLI/BYOK
  • GitHub/CoPilot/CLI/Install/Nix