Talented, technical geek, with absolutely no interest in fitting in or being liked, spending a ridiculous amount of time to meticulously analyze a piece of software they clearly liked at some point, to make a list of all the ways it can be improved. Brutally honest, not for being brutal’s sake, but out of principle and out of respect for the golden rule.
OpenCode is my daily driver. And I have mad respect for the team. Basically, the only “AI people” I trust and follow. But the article is accurate. Session management leaves a lot to be desired. And most of the session management issues just need a simple 2-pointer state tracking algorithm. Its model-specific prompts are ridiculously long, and the fact that someone had enough confidence to “prompt-engineer” them and configure a harness with them is somewhat silly.
I was about to say “username checks out” but then realized it’s not Reddit.
And I am not sure if your comment can be explained by naivety, unless you were under a rock for the last year, and missed all the events that showed they are not capable of “being the one that guides it.”
How many accidental private source code uploads did you read about? I heard exactly one. It was Anthropic. It was so bizarre I thought it was intentional. That kind of unserious behavior is somewhat unimaginable.
At some point if you are not capable of fulfilling a role that _you deem critical for the society_, yet you don’t acknowledge you fall short - for whatever reason - because it’s not in your interest, I think the benefit of the doubt disappears.
This is a confusing comment because it’s the exact argument you would present against rewriting Bun to Zig, but you are arguing for one and against the other.
It’s not even the act that bothers me, it’s the self-righteousness. It’s the relentless attempts at regulatory capture with real or pretend messiah complex.
You don’t have to design your product to allow distillation. Do your best to prevent it. And if they beat you, well, they beat you.
I suppose if the messiah complex is real being beaten means it’s the end of the world.
Life was good when only one group cried rapture every few years.
Are you implying the author of one of the best, if not the best performing agentic coding harness is having a hard time with vibecoding as a new paradigm?
Obviously the neckbeard who wrote C in vim and compiled when he is done is a better coder than the one who kept compiling and fixed issues when told by the compiler.
If left to my own devices, I can code 12-16 hour days. Have a crash day every 4-5 days, and then go back.
It would be extremely unwise to merge even half of that stuff. I would frequently throw it away. Even before AI.
It would be extremely naive to think that I am productive/efficient or responsible or a hard-worker for doing this.
Hey, I can party the way I like to party.
(I am old enough to catch myself and stop this cycle now)
Edit: I was super impressed with him in the first 10 minutes. It’s very Knuth-like to create a programming language because you had trouble building an audio system.
Oh god, George is getting old. Sounding like an old guy.
What does that say about me? I used to find him childish.
Jokes aside I also didn’t like him. Until I heard him on that podcast with the Russian-American dude whose name I can’t remember and can’t be bothered to search right now. I was surprised to start find that I would like George, because he said he was religious and I generally dislike people who capitalize god, etc.
I think he was one of the coolest hackers of the millennial generation.
Sincerely or not, judgement is yours, Dario has been begging for regulation. He has been talking about how Claude models are distilled by foreign adversaries. And now the regulation is here.
What makes you think this situation that the CEO of Anthropic is asking for it temporary? Do you not believe Dario was sincere?