It's hard to see why basically anyone would at this point.

Sure, some people legitimately work on things that middle schoolers can put together, and for those things I suppose using LLMs as a way of just getting them done is a less risky prospect. For those cases I don't really see the point of tossing it over the hedge to LLMs because what exactly are you doing beyond that? These types of projects have almost nothing to actually do beyond the grunt work of wiring together MVC stuff.

It's not as if you're going to now have time for interesting things, as they tend to not exist at all in those types of projects, and they're rarely important or big enough to warrant much thought in terms of distributed systems design and so on.

I guess I can see a situation where someone instead finds time to work on actually interesting side projects because they've basically stopped doing their work manually because it's not something worth doing manually. Personally I don't think I could stand that type of situation because it would feel bad on a moral level as well as on a personal stimulation level.

Or better yet, just don't use agents, deliver something better with all the stability and boringness that you have. There's never been a better time than now to produce software that actually seems to work and march along steadily; your competitors are all flailing wildly like morons.

It's not true as a general rule that they could give you correct small code snippets five years ago; I had frontier models not even understanding enough of the OpenGL API to make separate framebuffers correctly. I asked this as a test and the resulting recommended code would of course compile, but leave someone who didn't already know the correct way to do it staring at a black screen and potentially spending the next hour debugging that.

If you think you're somehow going to make an actual game worthy of people's time with LLMs, you are almost certainly mistaken. Not only because it'll be a complete, unworkable mess with really bad fundamentals, but also because if you're vibecoding the actual technical part you probably also think game design is just about "having ideas" or something else that's really reductive and incorrect.

    $ ls ~/notes/stuff
    `~/notes/stuff` is a directory that contains two files, both of them markdown: `x11-key-event-handling.md` and  `x11-resources.md`. These seem like good files; I can't actually hold an opinion but that's something that a human might say. I hope you like them.

And no, I don't think you can have any valuable opinions on Zig since you don't write it. In your analogy you're not even driving the car, but it doesn't surprise me that you can't figure that out.

Looking at most of the available evidence, Mythos is an incremental upgrade over other models and nowhere near the implied advancement that this seems to point to. I guess you could be right in that a sufficient advancement would cause this type of withholding of it, but I think it's kind of silly to think that the US has reached that level.

So far most of them have done very poorly on that one, because they are all overtrained on just executing shell commands.

A former colleague of mine and I made a simple test for some baseline "Everything worth using should be able to do this pretty easily and swiftly" but that's some very minor code generation with a very straight forward, boilerplate-type pattern.

1. My own harness + Local (which usually means Qwen3.6-35B-A3B), I use this fairly often for research gathering on topics, info gathering on code bases, etc.

2. My own harness + DeepSeek v4 Flash served by DeepSeek, I added $20 quite some time ago and somehow still have $18.77 in there after I don't know how many prompts. I use this pretty often, slightly less than my local setup, it's great and what I'm planning on running locally (eventually).

3. My own harness + OpenRouter with whichever model I want to try out. I use this very rarely.

4. Pi + OpenAI Codex $20 subscription. I don't use this almost at all anymore, but I keep the Codex subscription for testing things out to see how GPT-5.5 will handle a problem the other setups have issues with.

> Why do you trust it with serving full quality?

The only thing I've noticed seems unbearably useless sometimes versus what I noticed before was GPT-5.5 which has had some of the weirdest degradations I've seen. It's not to Anthropic levels but it definitely had some service issues a few times where I was wondering if they had accidentally (or purposefully) lobotomized it.

Everything else has mostly just been the same, except DeepSeek I noticed had some speed issues a few days ago.

> What harness do you use? Why do you trust it not to have malware (most harnessed are TS apps)?

I pretty much only use my own, agents are trivial to make and it's definitely not hard to make one that's better than Claude Code or Codex for whatever you're doing.