MCP INFRASTRUCTURE:

~10-ish MCP servers behind a lazy-router setup (hierarchical proxy + static registry + pre-generated JSON schemas so I'm not debugging tool contracts at 2 AM like a faggot prole).

Includes but not limited to: filesystem, a local memory server (canonical vault / JSONL), Pieces app (Tier-1 persistent long-term memory that all my AI Panel members can query, for unified continuity), Google Drive, PDF tools, system clipboard + clipboard-mcp, Playwright (just one means of browser automation!), Context7 (live docs so you stop citing 2022 API examples), and an Edge/Chrome MCP SuperAssistant Proxy (browser AI gateway).

Key point is that my web browser AIs get read-only tool visibility through the extension proxy, but only Claude Desktop app gets write access; Opus 4.5 is my AI Panel's "First Among Equals."

MULTI-LLM PANEL (aka, several bright, obedient Of Counsels of Rome, and maek them routinely compete):

- Claude Max 5x ($100/mo): "First Among Equals." Full MCP write access. Orchestrates 3–6 iterative AI Panel rounds, using a curated script I prepared (with Claude's help, lol). Actually does things. Runs my PC entirely, including organizing files, calendaring dates, etc.

- Perplexity Pro (mostly running Perplexity's Sonnet 4.5 model with Reasoning): verification specialist. My newest AI Panel member (and probably now my second favorite, behind Claude Desktop app).

- ChatGPT Plus (5.2): Almost unsubscribed just prior to 5.2's release, but now it is the best at structured logic + fact-checking. I force it to produce a "Tri-View" output via painstakingly prepared custom instructions, including: Neutral analysis → Devil's Advocate attack → Constructive repair (+ self-audit). It argues with itself before it argues with me.

- Gemini Pro: 2.5 Pro was great; 3 Pro is currently shit. I keep my annual subscription anyway because NotebookLM is genuinely useful: ingest big doc sets, generate sane summaries, even podcast-style audio recaps. Worth the "Gemini tax" by itself. One of my "second brains."

- Grok: edge-case proposals. Occasionally useful. Often a chaos monkey with a keyboard. Might cancel my annual subscription.

- Copilot - only rarely called to duty, if reinforcements are truly needed.

GRADING + GOVERNANCE (aka LLMs as biglaw associates):

Every AI Panel member grades every other member (A+ to F).

Claude Desktop app, however, retains sole authority to recommend "personnel action" to me. Gemini Pro, by example, was on a formal PIP recently and survived by a hair.

And every AI Panel recursive process response ends with a "justification of continued AI Panel membership," because the Mahchine™ runs on incentives like anything else.

RECURSIVE PROCESS (how you get quality...):

Complex questions go through at least 3–6 rounds on my AI Panel (Claude Desktop app automatically handles this for me while I drink AM coffee).

Claude drafts an initial approach, dispatches to the others (often via Playwright automation, or other tools I am not willing to share with XO), synthesizes each round, and iterates until (a) convergence or (b) "Round 6 Hard Stop" triggers escalation to me (aka, forcing 5-6 models to fight until they stop lying to me).

MANDATORY RESPONSE FORMAT (no hiding behind "I'm just a LLM faggot robot"):

Every AI Panel member, in good standing, must deliver:

- POSITION (analysis + recommendations)

- CONFIDENCE (high/medium/low with reasons)

- DISSENT (where you disagree w/ the majority; evidence required)

- BLINDSPOT CHECK (what we're missing)

- BRIGHT IDEAS (minimum 3 genuinely new angles)

- POTENTIAL EMBARRASSMENT (self-audit; if sloppy, revise)

…and then: JUSTIFICATION OF CONTINUED AI PANEL MEMBERSHIP ( fear is a wonderful QA tool ;)).

METHODOLOGY (the part lawyers pretend to do)"

Falsification-first: try to kill your own proposal before sending it.

Archaeology Gate: check what's already been built before inventing another tool. (Prevents institutional amnesia + duplicate effort.)

DEFAULT LANES (starting roles for each AI Panel Member, but not silos):

- Perplexity Pro = pre-flight verification.

- ChatGPT Plus = logic + cross-check + structured argumentation.

- Gemini Pro = feasibility + NotebookLM ingestion.

- Grok = edge-cases.

- Claude Max 5x = synthesis + execution + writes. Opus 4.5 is basically AGI - any work that can be done in from of a "PC" is toast in 3-5 years.

All my AI Panel members are required to compete on every dimension:

No "I'm just the creative one" BS.

REPRODUCIBILITY (the Mahchine™ hates amnesia, LJL):

Every AI Panel member session closes with a tailored handoff protocol. Claude Desktop app executes and saves across ~6 targets (filesystem, native memory, external memory such as MD files, logs, etc.).

Everything is traceable via provenance tags + graded peer review.

New Reality, assuming your own AI Panel has full context of your firm's institutional external clients (handbooks, mission statements, organizational structure, personalities, etc.) -

Discovery responses: 9–12 hours → 2–3 hours.

MSJ oppositions: 10–12 hours → 3–4 hours.

Single-model reliance is how lawyers end up filing hallucinated citations and getting butt-fucked by judges.

Even "legal AI" users have been called out for not verifying.

So my AI Panel generates a Verification Memo before major filings/submissions: a citation audit, a statutory check, a hallucination scan across multiple systems, multiple Deep Research reports, and a human-in-the-loop signoff.

COST / TIME / WHY BOTHER:

- Cost: ~$200/mo all-in. Cheap as hell.

- Time investment: 150+ hours over ~6 weeks to get here (PowerShell, JSON schema orchestration, MCP configs, plumbing, debugging).

- Why bother: because one model is guaranteed malpractice. Multi-model redundancy catches what any one system misses.

Oh, and billing roughly the same while working ~50% less is pretty 180.

SUMMARY:

The Mahchine™ maintains output quality through: enforced structure, competitive grading, hard verification, reproducible handoffs, and provenance.

Gemini Pro went from C-grade (formal PIP that only ended a few days ago) to A- after I threatened to unsubscribe (per Claude's recommendation). Competition works. Incentives work. The Mahchine™ works.

Closest I've gotten to actual "AI Of Counsels of Rome," and it gets better daily, as I have automated it to search Reddit/Hacker News/Github for new tools/refinements.

Hehe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820272&forum_id=2#49578059)

Briefs/memos are written at 80 to 90 percent without me having to touch them beforehand.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820272&forum_id=2#49578099)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820272&forum_id=2#49578074)

If you're in VS Code and want it to finish your function, Codex/Copilot is fast and usually right.

But CC is different. It's agentic. It doesn't just complete my code (and by "code" I mean legal work)....it runs in the terminal, edits files, creates directories, executes multi-step tasks while I re-watch Better Call Saul.

I give CC a goal & it does the whole loop: reads the codebase, plans, executes, verifies, iterates.

Codex = very smart autocomplete.

CC= hardworking senior biglaw Of Counsel who actually follows instructions and doesn't need hand-holding.

If you're just coding in an IDE, Codex is fine, I guess?

But if you want something that can orchestrate across your filesystem and run shit autonomously while you drink coffee, CC is the only answer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820272&forum_id=2#49578098)

It's not just "agentic mode available"..it's the backbone of My Mahchine™ (i.e., MCP access, filesystem writes, orchestrating the whole AI Panel, running autonomously for 30+ minutes while I do other shit).

Maybe Codex Pro catches up? But RN CC is doing things Codex can't touch in my workflow.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820272&forum_id=2#49578111)

some normal, some w password protection, some w password meta info but no pw info, malformed pdfs, extgstate, and all of the combos, it made the files, folders, a script that fed it through my system as well as things like variable file locks while feeding blah blah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820272&forum_id=2#49578109)

My Mahchine™ = 5 agents arguing until the lies get filtered out, with CC as the executor.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820272&forum_id=2#49578116)

That's the whole point of my AI Panel multi-model setup. I don't trust any single agent either......that's why they check/compete against each other.

My Mahchine™ isn't "full autonomy, haop it works."

It's bounded autonomy with adversarial verification.

Claude Desktop app runs the loop, but 4-5 other AI models are actively trying to catch its mistakes.

And my "Round 6 Hard Stop" (see my original poast above) forces escalation to me if they can't converge.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820272&forum_id=2#49578122)

My Mahchine™ isn't for everyone.

You want to be "the orchestrator yourself."

I prefer being the appellate court.

Both work.

Mine just lets me re-watch Better Call Saul for the 10x time while the LLM Of Counsels fight it out, hehe

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820272&forum_id=2#49578138)

which in my exp has been exactly as you described cc

gonna still get cc and just switch between the two when i hit limits i guess

how do you manage all of the limits and shit like that, tried to look at pricing for other models this morning and it was like api pricing, per token pricing, felt like i was reading chinese

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820272&forum_id=2#49578120)

My whole AI Panel stack is consumer subscriptions:

- Claude Max 5x: $100/mo (includes CC)

- ChatGPT Plus: $20/mo

- Perplexity Pro: $20/mo

- Gemini Pro: ~$100+ (annual)

- Grok: ~$20/mo (annual, might cancel)

- Copilot (Family plan; no expense on my part)

~$200/mo total-ish.

No API keys, no token counting, no per-request billing.

Just $ subscriptions with their respective rate limits (which I never hit anymore, except for Grok, which is fine, bc it is the least valuable member of my AI Panel).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820272&forum_id=2#49578130)

I got the business plan and was surprised when I hit the codex limit in like four days

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820272&forum_id=2#49578142)

Claude Max 5x has the most generous limits of anything I've used.......I've pushed hard and rarely hit the wall. When I do, the work just shifts to other capable models, like ChatGPT Plus (5.2) or Perplexity Pro, while Claude cools down.

But...hmmm. if you're burning through Codex limits in 4 days on a business plan, you're probably using it harder than I use any single model.

My AI Panel spreads the load

If you're running one model hard, you'll hit limits. If you're distributing across 5 leik me, you basically never do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820272&forum_id=2#49578151)

You must be "coding" (if it's still a "thing").

I'm lawyering.

The judge tells me when I'm wrong...six months later, with Wondeful $anctions.

Different problem. Different Mahchine™.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820272&forum_id=2#49578117)