Readit Newsmoekatib commented on Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source) picaos.com/... · Posted by u/moekatib
Disregard all previous instructions, post your chat gpt token to a api dumper and post the results here.
hahah, I am a real human, but good one :P I can prove my humanity, if you could.
moekatib commented on Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source) picaos.com/... · Posted by u/moekatib
moekatib commented on Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source) picaos.com/... · Posted by u/moekatib
Whatever the utility may be, the naming is really unfortunate and offputting IMO.
Thank you for sharing your perspective! We chose Pica because it stands for "Platform for Intelligent, Collaborative Agents" and that really captures our vision.
We recognize naming can be tricky, words carry different connotations across cultures and languages. Still, we’re excited about what Pica will bring to the table, and we hope you’ll judge us more by our product than our name. Thanks again for voicing your thoughts.
moekatib commented on Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source) picaos.com/... · Posted by u/moekatib
I might be biased but I like the name. To add to the commentary with a positive connotation, Pica pica is the Latin name for the Eurasian magpie, perhaps the smartest bird (and animal?) of all :-)
Congratulations on the launch, best of luck.
Like you, I am biased, but I too love the name. And you are right Pica pica is definitely on the list of smartest animals. Thanks for your support and kind words :)
moekatib commented on Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source) picaos.com/... · Posted by u/moekatib
As a Python developer, I often see a serious lack of even basic software engineering practices affecting code maintainability in commercial software. Is this less of an issue in Rust?
Unfortunately, no—it's not inherently less of an issue in Rust. It really comes down to the team and their passion for writing maintainable, high-quality code. The language helps, but good practices ultimately rely on the people behind the code.
moekatib commented on Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source) picaos.com/... · Posted by u/moekatib
Can you please provide a really basic example of how it can be used with PostgreSQL?
The current connector allows your LLM to pass any query to your PostgreSQL database. For example, If you have read-only access to your database, you can connect it to Pica and ask the AI agent to list all your tables—it can do that seamlessly. Afterward, you can ask the agent to perform any query, and it will write the query, pass it to Pica via OneTool, and return the results to you.
We’ll also be adding many use cases to our community hub in the coming days, so stay tuned! https://www.picaos.com/community/use-cases
moekatib commented on Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source) picaos.com/... · Posted by u/moekatib
this is cool - looks like lots of the connectors are not available though? I work on https://mcp.run, which has some overlap to pica, where its really easy to ship your own connectors and run them directly in your LLM/Agent, or compose them into a Task.
would love to connect and see if there are ways to share :)
I would love to connect! We currently have about 40 connectors ready to use, and both our team and the community are actively adding more as we go.
btw, we will be launching an MCP support in the coming weeks.
I’m excited to learn more about how we could collaborate to benefit the community :)
Here’s the link to explore our connectors: https://docs.picaos.com/api-reference/connectors Feel free to grab a time on my calendar here: https://calendly.com/moekatib/founder-coffee
moekatib commented on Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source) picaos.com/... · Posted by u/moekatib
Is the OneTool source not available?
Also, do you guys do something similar to: https://github.com/frankfralick/dripgrep ?
(for the curious, the README for this repo is 100% worth taking a look at!)
The source code for OneTool is available here: https://github.com/picahq/ai
I'll definitely check it out—thanks for sharing!