there are like 5 people in tech that understand marketing
and of those 5 probably 0 have actually pulled it off, they just understand it correctly and are trying the right things
so it's funny to see all the takes on TBQN acquisition, every single person is wrong
lol someone on my team did an entire talk on using otel locally to introspect opencode 3 days ago
woops
https://youtu.be/YpjoPWCncDY
why has no one vibed up really good local otel tooling
i want to be able to look at all these traces during local dev
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some thoughts on figuring out how to keep producing good work
idk how people manage infrastructure anymore
every service has their own bespoke cli / config file and they don't support terraform well anymore
your system is never just one provider so do people just have a mess of these smashed together?
you'll also constantly see people like "this guy discovered a huge bug that fixed a major issue" and it's never correct
people yell at us in PRs all the time "you haven't merged this fix in months" and they'll swear they tested it and it fixes the problem
but it's complete nonsense
the amount of misinformation out there is crazy right now
you can see this with the cc leak - people point their llm at it and it tells them some bullshit and they post about it with extreme confidence
this is happening everywhere, impossible to keep up with and correct
there's always people arguing that most people can't notice quality to rationalize infinitely cutting corners
they might not be able to articulate why but people can definitely feel when something is great
why is no one doing this?
what if we gave you unlimited tokens for free and we also paid you
well not easily
the hardest part about having a remote team is you can't hit your employees
1 month later
6,500,000 monthly actives
we will NOT be participating in the pagan holiday of april fools
a day devoted to to ritualized deception and spiritual corrosion opens a pathway for the devil to do his work
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you're going through the claude code source when the real action is going down at github/dmca
working on a new project and once again i do not understand how people use agents at the start of the project
i didn't even think to, just naturally went around defining interfaces to think through what i'm doing
agent comes later
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our whole repo including webapp, desktop, sdk, cloud stuff, zen is a bit under 1M LoC
claude code source is 512K lines
opencode is 118K
we're getting LOC mogged
do ai bots respond to posts with obscenities in it
like if we end each post with fuck bitch asshole fuck
will they still reply
so it's not just something we can randomly offer - we need to get bigger, market needs to settle, etc
in the meanwhile we appreciate the support on the $10 tier - helps us safely learn and scale 4/4
so on the $10 if we get everything right we break even. if we're a bit wrong we lose $5. if we're more wrong we lose $10, etc
so offering a $50 plan means we could lose a lot more when we're wrong because all the numbers scale up 3/4
to do this, we try to get a lot of customers and go to inference providers and negotiate deals so the $10/month can get $40 of inference (example)
this is a complicated process involving relationships, negotiations, software and hardware 2/4
people often ask if OpenCode Go will have a higher tier than $10/month
we'd like to but let me explain what makes this complicated
subscription plans need to offer more than spending the same amount on pay per token 1/4
we see a lot conspiracy theories claiming models on OpenCode Go ($10 plan) are served differently
we're using the exact same providers you use when you go direct
all providers are constantly tweaking things and sometimes there are bugs but it's pretty minor
if you're working on making something cool accessible to more people there will be a crowd of people who absolutely hate you
no one spot is morally superior to the others - very dumb to get caught up in that line of thinking 3/3
- app builders create real $$$ demand to justify continued investment
- individual hackers get these models running in all kinds of places
- lots of co-designing between these parties that improve things
- lots of conflict between these parties that create a good equilibrium 2/3
we all live in a big ecosystem that all feeds into each other
- frontier labs push the bar on what's possible
- opensource labs build off of that and make their own discoveries
- inference providers make huge capex investments to serve these models 1/3
who's got something good i'm buying
man you guys already got to all the good domains and npm packages and you don't do anything with em