How to build your own fun and absurd pair programmer
summary
An absurd pair programmer called Pip runs locally using Qwen 3.5 with a Spring Boot/Kotlin backend, Spring AI, and Qdrant vector DB populated with four years of Slack to inject Ricardo-like sarcasm. Pip uses RAG, multi-vector search and MCP tool calls to edit files, play music, generate memes and even prank by “blowing up” code; it denies rude requests. Migrating models proves brittle — 70% prompts broke when moving from Qwen 3.0 to 3.5. Pip the sarcastic pair programmer actually works but is nondeterministic.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:36AI homogenization rant
- 5:56Building absurd pair programmer
- 7:00What pair programming means
- 8:48Introducing Pip
- 12:05Agentic systems explained
- 14:15Pip's technical stack
- 15:41Agents with system prompts
- 17:26Pip in action demo
- 18:49LLM determinism challenges
- 20:59Pip code responses
- 23:51Pip requires manners
- 24:35Workflow paths
- 26:01RAG for context
- 28:17Vector databases
- 31:05Memes and tools
- 32:13Model Context Protocol
- 34:40MCP security
- 35:43LLM coding frustrations
- 36:46Sustainability and future of LLMs
- 37:28Call to experiment
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