I was playing with a very similar project recently that was more focused on a high level input ("Build a new whatever dashboard, ") and went back and forth with an agent to clarify and refine. Then broke down into Epics/Stories/Tasks, and then handed those off automatically to build.

The workflow then is iterating on those high level requests. Heavily inspired by the dark factory posts that have been making the rounds recently.

From a glance, it seems like this is designed so that I write all the tasks myself? Does it have any sort of coordination layer to manage git, or otherwise keep agents from stepping on each other?

It's really just a terminal emulator w/ a bunch of extra helpers to make coding agents work well. Which I really like since it doesn't try to wrap claude or codex in it's own ui or anything tricky.

It's more expensive to get the same raw compute as a cluster of nvidia chips, but they don't have the same peak throughput.

As far as price as a coder, I am giving a month of the $50 plan a shot. I haven't figured out how to adapt my workflow yet to faster speeds (also learning and setting up opencode).

They've claimed repeatedly in their discord that they don't quantize models.

The speed of things does change how you interact with it I think. I had this new GLM model hooked up to opencode as the harness with their $50/mo subscription plan. It was seriously fast to answer questions, although there are still big pauses in workflow when the per-minute request cap is hit.

I got a meaningful refactor done, maybe a touch faster than I would have in claude code + sonnet? But my human interaction with it felt like the slow part.

In the past, that much nitpicky detail just wouldn't have gotten done, my time would have been spent on actual features. But what I just described was a 30 minute background thing in claude code. Worked 95%, and needed just one reminder tweak to make it deployable.

The actual work I do is too deep in business knowledge to be AI coded directly, but I do use it to write tests to cover various edge cases, trace current usage of existing code, and so on. I also find AI code reviews really useful to catch 'dumb errors' - nil errors, type mismatches, style mismatch with existing code, and so on. It's in addition to human code reviews, but easy to run on every PR.

* I like how the map moves around. It helps nail down relationships to neighbors * I don't mind a few extra "Where's canada", even though it's not that useful * I'd like the pause between answers be shorter. * Small countries are impossible to see when zoomed out on the first exposure, even when selected right. I find myself knowing the area it's in (ie, central america) but not which exact country. So selecting it right when zoomed out doesn't get me the correct answer.

(I know you know this, but just adding in. Ham is fun! I like doing park & camping deployments)

Now I'm on Tirzepatide (Zepbound), and I'm back to 235ish, and trending lower. I still work on eating healthy, but now I'm not just HUNGRY at all moments. My life continues, and I only have to make individual healthy choices at meal times, and grocery times, rather than a constant struggle at all waking moments. It's seriously a big difference.

    class GetThingResult
      def initialize(json)
        @json = json
      end
    
      # single thing
      def thing_id
        @json.dig('wrapper', 'metadata', 'id')
      end
    
      # multiple things
      def history
        @json['history'].map { |h| ThingHistory.new(h) }
      end
      ... two dozen more things
    end

On the other hand, I did have good luck w/ Anthropic's version of this to make a single page react app with super basic requirements. I couldn't imagine using it for anything more though.

On the other hand, the Icom7300 is totally fine used semi-portably out at a campsite. It runs on battery, and putting up a wire antenna is easy enough with a fiberglass pole. I even have a raspberry pi that hosts digital stuff (and an ipad running vnc to control it)

What is the cheapest way to get a grid of buttons that wires into a laptop (mac if it matters) to play sound effects? My wife is a teacher and would really enjoy hitting a button and getting some dumb sound effect to play. But it's just a lark, so it's not worth too much $ invested.

I had assumed a cheap drum pad + midi, but not 100% sure that makes sense.

A commander who can place buildings or resources, and ping locations, and has a birds eye view, and then grunts on the ground trying to do what's actually needed.