dax

@thdxr.com

building opencode.ai

every company is publishing random ai benchmarks because they're desperately looking for some way to market their product it's useless noise. no one working on the things they're benchmarking pay any attention to them

if you're fundraising do not give a discount to anyone you can come up with reasons why you should, don't do it no investor can help you so meaningfully that this is remotely worth it

every surface of sf is covered in an ad for "we make agents for marketing engineers remember things sometimes i guess" you guys are so depressed :(

if you're trying to do something difficult that will probably fail and you're excited about it people will call you a grifter

if you use planetscale it's important to know they're across the street from a blue bottle and a sweet green just so you know the type of people you're dealing with

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ok this was a good experiment. tabs in opencode are amazing can turn it on in settings in opencode2

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you now have the ability to - play with every possible solution to a problem - refactor everything when you think of better patterns so many people complaining about the code the LLMs produce, if you're not producing the best software of your life right now something is wrong

now everyone gets to complain about how LLMs don't write good code like they're someone who even knows what that is

this pacing the frontier letter is hilarious because these people act so intellectual and beyond base human behaviors but clearly it's the classic signing a letter dynamics where everyone wants to seem like they're important next to the other important people

right now i'm very unsure about this next gen size of model they're so expensive and slow and it doesn't feel worth it for most things

kimis license around revenue sharing is totally reasonable the price fixing part is not - you need to get their approval before lowering prices

typescript unknown type is taking things too far just make it any man i know you're gonna cast it anyway

we spend a lot of energy and money helping opensource models get better but for coding there are still large gaps between them and the frontier maybe raw intelligence is the comparable but zooming into day to day usage long way to go before they get the same level of polish

the impact of ai on the average person right now is similar to google search it's ubiquitous, everyone is using it all the time. but they're not exactly seeing it as life changing so understandably it's very confusing what all the commotion is about

we were slicing up our data and found that egypt is the one country where there are more OpenCode desktop users than tui users probably cuz the terminal can't render hieroglyphics

i am way more accepting of slop on the frontend vs the backend i don't really know why, frontend slop could result in very user visible problems but it feels much easier to fix

idea guys think simply having the idea means they should be successful programmers think simply being able to build the idea means they should be successful