jerieljan

Hah, I agree. As soon as I can figure out how to replace batteries myself, I'd also be happily doing the same thing with mine.

Yeah, it's very confusing especially if you're not in the loop and their docs were only updated recently and was confusing during the v1 -> v2 transition weeks / months ago.

So far, "OpenCode" has gone through several possible definitions:

- OpenCode Terminal / CLI - This is what you get normally. Runs a service in the background and the CLI is your interface.

- OpenCode Desktop - Instead of a CLI, you get a desktop interface.

Most users usually stop here. You just install the app and you connect wherever.

So there's the services where they both make money and make things easier for users:

- OpenCode Console - Basically the serving platform for both Zen and Go, and has expanded to a hosted inference gateway and somewhat similar to OpenRouter or a managed LiteLLM. Has the option to BYOK if you have existing AI platform accounts so it charges those instead of Zen, and that's what got compromised.

- OpenCode Zen - the API service they host if you want to get access to providers but don't want to pay individually per API platform. Similar to OpenRouter. I noticed they're kinda slowly dropping the Zen moniker.

- OpenCode Go - the subscription service that they host that features open weight models and select low-cost models from frontier labs. Has different policies when it comes to privacy and retention compared to Zen.

- OpenCode Black - a limited-time, limited access subscription service that grants access to frontier models. Not sure if this is still alive or not.

I've been on the API-only mentality for months and all the open models were definitely the stuff I loved the most. Kimi K2.5, 2.7 and Deepseek v4 were among my favorites, while sparingly using Opus or whatever OpenAI had for specific situations.

But ever since I've switched to one of the $100-tier subs, I can see why a lot of the people on it don't really discuss the open models often. I'd still use it especially when it comes to sensitive inputs, but for most work, what you get on OpenAI or Anthropic is really more than enough.

It really got even better when they also made their cheaper models up to par if not better than the open models.

I do think the crowd for open models are out there, especially when you see trillions of tokens running for them on OpenCode or OpenRouter leaderboards.

I haven't even considered using MCP for locally-running apps! I mean I used to, but they almost always got associated with cloud service access and integrations nowadays, and most local stuff is trivially handled with agent skills.

Thanks for the tips. TIL about BTT having MCP support. Crank looks very promising too, since it looks like a more effective Shortcuts and Hazel replacement

Funnily enough, my first impression for this project was to use it for non-code and planning first.

I agree, I don't think people are going to remotely pair-prog with this when it's existed in the past and most work on their own and let their pull requests do the talking.

But I say non-code and planning because I've definitely strategized with AI before and have scrapped a good chunk of it because I overlooked details that my team shared. Being able to get that on an active session with context shared across all members as it's debated sounds good and would've reduced turnaround time.

I remember the Opencode folks mention about gangprompting before and I guess this is one take of it, besides adding an Opencode bot on Slack and hoping that's competent enough for the work that needs doing. I've never tried it myself, so I'm not gonna criticize it, but I'm sure it's an idea people want to see if it's effective.

While we're at it, this should cover products and food in general too. I hate it when I see a poster that clearly has AI-generated images of food and the actual food you get is nowhere near what they generated.

Or even if it's similar, it's still clearly staged to look more appealing than what you should be getting.

Everyone knows deceptive advertising is bad, but somehow those who use AI for advertising turned their brains off on this topic because the images looked cooler than what they'd normally produce with a camera.

The Razer one is spot-on. I had a Razer mouse during the Windows 7 days and it kept running the installation setup despite declining it all the time, and it's so bad at times I recall seeing the setup trigger while on an ongoing Windows update when the screen was already locked up.

Logitech did something similar if I recall right.

Nice. I did transcriptions on a casual project before that went through something like this. Transcribing videos or audio files with Whisper? Very common. But having to swap it out with Qwen3 or a different family of ASR models? Oops, not as straightforward. For Qwen for example you gotta deal with the forced aligner or it won't be good as subtitles, and then gotta deal with some requirements and considerations if you want to make use of MLX on a Mac or something.

Will definitely check this out since it sounds like it eases through the pain of dealing with these.

I also quite like that it has a decent CLI and skill for agents to use too.

Quite handy to apply since you can instruct models to run devservers in herdr panes or workspaces rather than doing long running shell commands or scripts in the agent session.

(You could probably do the same with tmux and others but I've had better success with monitoring herdr state)

Default stickiness, tbh.

A few years ago, I started moving towards Podman when it got to that "good enough" point on both Linux and macOS and when Docker started to remind people about Docker Desktop that it needed a license for commercial use.

Even then, it took around a year or so to transition.

It's terrifying, yeah.

To some degree, the closest we have to these situations besides getting flagged with TOS violations (whether real or false-flagged) in these companies are residents of countries that are either trade or economically sanctioned by the USA.

Thankfully we haven't seen something like an account ban and deletion incident for such cases, but the severe ones I can remember usually prohibit access entirely and that'd be scary if it extended to primary services that others rely on for auth.

You will be effectively locked out to services if it's all that's linked and that identity provider just decided you'd be persona non grata.

I remember in the early days when I was just trying out ChatGPT on a phone for the first time (this was around GPT-3.5? GPT-4o?) and snapping a picture of our fridge that's full of magnet souvenirs and asked it to identify all the places we've been in and it gave a nice list of what it saw and the places that were featured.

Did it get it fully right? No. But it was one of those "oh wow, you could do that?" moments for me. There's obviously a lot more "oh shit" moments as time went on, but it was a neat little moment.