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dax
@thdxr.com
building opencode.ai
don't fall for this
January 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
what is this animation
January 1, 2026 at 3:32 PM
it's pretty entertaining watching all these new companies building things for devs for the first time

annoying as shit isn't it?
January 1, 2026 at 2:50 AM
all those people posting screenshots of them not responding to a cursor recruiting email has made it a lot easier for us to recruit
January 1, 2026 at 1:15 AM
it's pretty fun that we have internal competition between tui and desktop now
January 1, 2026 at 12:20 AM
what's funny is no one can remember if it's rippling or deel that's the evil one
December 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
does anyone know of a public mcp server with no auth?
December 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
the past few weeks have been really good validation of opencode primitives

have had companies building on it and so many plugins implementing complex ideas

it's def not 100% yet but we wouldn't have gotten this far if all our code was written by an LLM
December 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
does anyone else have this
December 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"well you don't need to look at compiler output so ai code will eventually be like that too"

this is a great example why most people are better off not trying to use their brains at all
December 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
if i was sam altman id post "anthropic? more like canthropic"
December 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
ship something shitty fast and fix it later culture just does not produce anything great

there's mountains of rationale as to why you should do that but i've never seen it work and it always turns the company into a painful place to work

nothing going on right now changes this
December 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
people showing off their token counts but not what they built
December 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
david and i trying to make the permissions UX good enough to convince me to turn on permissions

issues being fixed
- request being scrolled out of view
- not knowing what "allow always" is doing
- unclear subagent permission requests
- less clutter
December 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
guys i don't love government overreach either but if it wasn't for the EU i couldn't charge my blinds with my phone
December 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
guys the ai reply stuff is so bad

people making fun of rob pike for his reaction to that email but the amount of ai noise being created is not good

it's going to rot the systems we rely on
December 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
is this what people expect? this isn't what our impl does right now

if you have one in `root/` and one in `root/subpackage/` and you are running in `root/subpackage` we load both

what is your expectation?
December 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
our team #1 bottleneck is finding clarity

figuring out what we should do, how we should do it, what's the design, how it's positioned, how it'll evolve

this is a fortunate position to be in but this is why we aren't 100x more productive with ai
December 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
opencode is at the size where there's some huge fans of it

they probably annoy some people by telling them to switch

those people eventually hit a frustration level that they then vent by trying to dunk on us

but hope they remember we're not the ones telling them to switch
December 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
in opencode 1.0.203 we shipped some prompt tweaks for the bash tool

it was using bash way too often to search instead of grep/glob tool

and when it did it would often do overly restrictive searches and miss files it should be paying attention to

simple fix, big improvement
December 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
performance enhancements this impressive are only possible if first you do something stupid
December 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
sometimes you employ a strategy where you prioritize A over B when everyone is doing the opposite

the amusing thing is when it works people don't go hmm interesting let me learn from that

they go "can you believe they still don't do B? how embarrassing"
December 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
how come people default to power racks

i found it annoying to have to move the barbell from inside to outside and i can't do most things inside

i'm swapping to a half rack, feels more ergonomic
December 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
our main skills is looking at 3 different things and realizing that they're actually all just special cases of 1 thing

but it still takes a very long time to do this
December 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
we get pitched on a lot of tech trying to get us to integrate it into our products

people get this backwards, they think if they can convince us then they can reach all of our users

it's the other way around - you need to first reach all of our users then we'll integrate it
December 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM