beefsack

قبل 5 أيامdiscuss

For those trying to get it to work in OpenCode with a Qwen Cloud Token Plan, this is what worked for me. Note that I've just matched Qwen 3.7 Max for the limits as I don't know exactly what they are.

  "provider": {
    "alibaba-token-plan": {
      "models": {
        "qwen3.8-max-preview": {
          "limit": {
            "context": 1048576,
            "output": 65536
          },
          "modalities": {
            "input": [
              "text"
            ],
            "output": [
              "text"
            ]
          },
          "name": "Qwen3.8 Max Preview"
        }
      }
    }
  }

beefsack

قبل 6 أيامdiscuss

For the vast majority of models I've worked with, 150k tokens of context seems like some magic spot. If you can stay under it then the session will stay on track and the agent won't start getting forgetful and weird.

Just like with real work, it's valuable to break down big tasks into small tasks that you can knock over in a single session. When a session does start getting too big, you just need to ask the agent to reply with a comprehensive handover report and paste it into a new session.

beefsack

قبل 8 أيامdiscuss

Nirav from Framework is similar, he speaks openly about compromises they make with their designs and why they make them.

When leaders are both technical and open about these sorts of things it makes me feel like I can trust that they are invested in supporting and improving their products.

beefsack

قبل 14 يومًاdiscuss

I'd say Codex and Claude Code have different strengths and weaknesses. Claude Code is significantly better in terms of their subagent UI for example - being able to see the list of subagents under the input is great.

To be honest though, I've gotten to the point where I prefer the OpenCode UI. A big win for OpenAI is you can log in to your subscription in OpenCode, whereas this is not trivially achievable for a Claude subscription.

I was getting some really impressive cost efficiency today in OpenCode with the following:

  * Main session agent: gpt-5.6-sol (high) via OpenAI subscription
  * General purpose subagent: deepseek-v4-pro (high) via OpenCode Go subscription
  * Using `obra/superpowers` for subagent driven workflows
  * The main session only being allowed filesystem read permissions and everything else delegated

It was absolutely crunching through tasks without hitting the limit, and this combination is quite cost effective.

GPT 5.6 was picking up on quality and functional issues from DeepSeek and having it resolve them cleanly, and I didn't even get close to my quotas whereas I can usually blast through them. I feel as people get more comfortable with subagents and mixing and matching models in their daily work, Anthropic's walled garden stance will start to hurt them.

beefsack

قبل 3 أشهرdiscuss

I think it would be the case in many of the commonwealth countries. You hear "sorry" being used a lot like this in Australia too.

beefsack

قبل 4 أشهرdiscuss

I feel this would be more useful for tasks like "Check website X to see if there are any great deals today". Specifically, tasks that are loosely defined and require some form of intuition.

beefsack

قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

The different bindings vs Vim was actually what stopped me using it. I really really wanted to love it and love a lot of the motivation and principles behind it, but unlearning decades of muscle memory is an absolute nightmare.

beefsack

قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

Many people buy two separate Claude pro subscriptions and that makes the limit become a non-issue. It works surprisingly well when you tend to hit the 5 hourly limit after a few hours, and hit the weekly limit after 4-5 days. $40 vs $100 is significant for a lot of people.

beefsack

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

Prompting isn't programming. Prompting is managing.

beefsack

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

It almost always devolves into some all encompassing ERP that is meant to solve the needs of all parts of the business and save millions in licensing costs, and we all know how well that plan goes.

beefsack

قبل 7 أشهرdiscuss

I feel like so many of these memory solutions are incredibly over-engineered too.

You can work around a lot of the memory issues for large and complex tasks just by making the agent keep work logs. Critical context to keep throughout large pieces of work include decisions, conversations, investigations, plans and implementations - a normal developer should be tracking these and it's sensible to have the agent track them too in a way that survives compaction.

beefsack

قبل 11 شهرًاdiscuss

The model is usually so confused after a /compact I also prefer a /clear.

I set up my directives to maintain a work log for all work that I do. I instruct Claude Code to maintain a full log of the conversation, all commands executed including results, all failures as well as successes, all learnings and discoveries, as well as a plan/task list including details of what's next. When context is getting full, I do a /clear and start the new session by re-reading the work log and it is able to jump right back into action without confusion.

Work logs are great because the context becomes portable - you can share it between different tools or engineers and can persist the context for reuse later if needed.

beefsack

قبل 12 شهرًاdiscuss

I wonder how many thousands of hours I have put into this wonderful collection. My kids play them too.

There's some jank relating to fractional scaling on Wayland unfortunately, but I keep one monitor without scaling so when I want to play I just launch the puzzles on that.

beefsack

السنة الماضيةdiscuss

I absolutely loved my Pebble. It was so amazing in its own niche.

beefsack

السنة الماضيةdiscuss

I generally find with Nix and NixOS that I'm able to just use a dev shell to create little custom environments at runtime as needed. Another option is `mkOutOfStoreSymlink` if you want some dynamic config for some GUI you are running.

Depends on what you are trying to achieve though.

beefsack

قبل سنتينdiscuss

They say you shouldn't host status pages on the same infrastructure that it is monitoring, but in a way that makes it much more accurate and responsive in outages!

beefsack

قبل سنتينdiscuss

Crazy to think he died 26 years ago.

beefsack

قبل سنتينdiscuss

Open the Terminal and type help to start a puzzle, not much to it but it was a bit of silly fun!

beefsack

قبل 3 سنواتdiscuss

It seems really straightforward to suggest that the better way to solve this is with standard protocols and self-hosting, but I do realise that's quite hand wavy and often not very accessible.

SMTP is an example of this succeeding, as problematic as that protocol is.

beefsack

قبل 3 سنواتdiscuss

Not being forced to use iOS, but if you are on iOS you are forced to use the app store.

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