Compare to providers like Fireworks and even with the openrouter 5% charge it's not competitive

It's essentially deterministic and fully reproducible.

Issues with Bluetooth, electron etc as described are essentially irrelevant to NixOS and have to do with your configuration

Sounds like you've never used it. I've daily driven it for ~2 years and would never go back

It works great with containers, you can use Nix to build extremely lean OCI images. Mercury uses it this way- the book NixOS in production discusses it

It looks like they are offering this in the form of "Mercury Edit"and I'm keen to try it

Other labs like Google have them but they have simply trailed the Pareto frontier for the vast majority of use cases

Here's more detail on how price/performance stacks up

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mercury-2

Where Goatseus Maximus and stuff supposedly created coins and invested autonomously.

Obviously it was BS but it fueled a huge amount of attention and speculation

Seems like he's focused on fintech and not involved in many of their LLM investments

Reinventing the wheel without explaining why existing tools didn't work

Creating buzzwords ("blueprints" "devboxes") for concepts that are not novel and already have common terms

Yet they embrace MCP of all things as a transport layer- the one part of the common "agentic" stack that genuinely sucks and needs to be reinvented

There's already some good work on router benchmarking which is pretty interesting

What are other projects trying something similar that deserve attention?

Anthropic is doing good work but he's personally responsible for a good deal of the Irrational Exuberance that plagues the space

https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall

LLMs already are very familiar with it, there are 100s of protoc plugin to generate code from it, and it's less verbose and more token efficient + testable with protovalidate