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building opencode.ai
someone give me a good argument as to why LLMs won't commodify

note this doesn't mean big labs don't continue to do well, just means they don't have monopoly power in it
February 12, 2026 at 2:43 AM
codex is by far a better coding model than opus - anyone who knows anything understands this

but the whole industry should reflect on why opus is the most popular

people assume whatever is the smartest will win but the old rules of product are still what determine everything
February 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
so much of what's going on in ai from the labs being valued the most to browser automation to standards like MCP look so much like other things in history

and in those cases there was a dramatic flip

on one hand i am certain it'll happen again but it's so hard to imagine
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
ai writes all our code for us*

*team chasing down the most fucked up bugs and perf issues cleaning up after my dumb ass not pictured
February 11, 2026 at 4:24 PM
we've taken the first steps in eliminating opencode's ripgrep dependency :)
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 AM
"x is too dangerous so i am the only one who can be trusted with it" is such a hilariously cliche trope it shows up constantly in history, books, movies

and it's the same outcome every time

and yet we're watching this happen in real time with AI
February 11, 2026 at 2:37 AM
raw LLM prices don't mean much but we can look at real world data to see what people actually spend

from last 7 days avg cost per session
February 11, 2026 at 12:55 AM
the whole TUI vs GUI debate no one makes the obvious point

why would you want to use something gooey

ew gross
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
did everyone end up adopting .agents/skills convention i wasn't following
February 10, 2026 at 5:15 PM
wow we're getting a vps vs serverless moment in 2026 bringing back the classics
February 10, 2026 at 4:11 PM
all these "ai changes everything" threadboys look like they fuck with airpods on
February 10, 2026 at 3:11 PM
one of the most annoying things in the world is mid level employees at a hot company

these mfs think they're such hot shit guarantee they name drop their CEO by first name
February 10, 2026 at 2:11 AM
you can learn a bit from the ai.​com launch and why the whole "all publicity is good publicity" shit is so wrong

- you go to their site - absolutely zero info about their product
- fine will try to sign up 1/3
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
scaling felt solved in software for a while - so many services that solve it for you, so few workloads that needed something special

but we're back to figuring out scaling from scratch for inference

things feel how they used to 15 years ago, everything constantly overloaded
February 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM
why did they take so many pictures
February 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
opencode zen produces a huge amount of the world's demand for open source models

we started routing a portion of kimi k2.5 traffic through openrouter and instantly made it the #1 programing model by a huge margin
February 8, 2026 at 1:25 AM
we've improved our traffic routing for kimi k2.5 (paid version) on zen so it should now be absurdly fast

might hit rate limits here as we scale up but this feels like something different
February 8, 2026 at 12:20 AM
this is our new ai slop pr policy
February 7, 2026 at 11:12 PM
i used to have a thousand good ideas and no time to work on them

now that i'm a lot more experienced i rarely ever have a good idea
February 7, 2026 at 4:05 PM
so what's going on with meta ai
February 7, 2026 at 5:15 AM
just one more markdown bro plz just one more and it'll do what you need
February 7, 2026 at 2:20 AM
what i learned from this past week is you should launch ai products in texas
February 6, 2026 at 8:40 PM
are we misunderstanding this?

the implication is you can't insert any content that anthropic didn't know to have generated

this breaks things like switching models mid session and a dozen other things harnesses rely on

i switch between claude and gpt all the time :(
February 6, 2026 at 1:55 AM
i've been a manager, i'm partially a manager now

and let me tell you something

it's absolutely nothing like managing a bunch of ai agents
February 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
seeing this new agent teams feature in cc i'm kinda wondering if i'm officially old

i remember seeing older programmers have no ability to get how the kids were doing things

i can feel my brain just being like huhhhh with all this stuff
February 5, 2026 at 11:35 PM