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by mindwok6 hours ago |
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upvoteby garethsprice3 hours ago|
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You're absolutely right to call this out — and honestly? I want to sit with that for a moment. Here's the thing: this isn't really about AI writing. It's not even about coding agents. It's about something much deeper. What's genuinely worth knowing: while I generally agree, many people may not. I think there's a really interesting conversation to be had here. Thanks for naming this. It needed to be named.

(/s - Blargh, writing like that that by hand is exhausting)

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upvoteby mil2211 minutes ago|
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If you hadn't used ' instead of ’, I would never have realized this was actually written by hand.
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upvoteby laylomo23 hours ago|
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I could literally feel my blood beginning to boil. You have a talent for this.
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upvoteby aaronharnly2 hours ago|
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And honestly? That’s rare.
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upvoteby bix62 hours ago|
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COTD! Now just slide a rick roll in there.
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upvoteby hootz5 hours ago|
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Can't wait to learn more about how to vendor-lock-in myself really hard into not being able to code without the help of a specific corporation!
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upvoteby pragma_x1 hours ago|
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I hear you on vendor lock-in. Everyone's freaked out about other companies getting the upper-hand with AI in the loop, so there's this charge to use the hell out of it at all costs. Meanwhile, we're quietly picking winners and losers on the service side of all this, and we'll have to live with that outcome for a long time.

At this point, I'm seriously considering what it would take to build a reasonable budget-AI box that's self-hosted. It wouldn't need to blow the doors off of Claude, just get me most of the way there. Maybe even build it out of used and/or last-gen GPUs and a beefy motherboard.

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upvoteby hootz18 minutes ago|
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Self-hosting right now is in a weird spot. I'd say that the main benefit of the open models is not self-hosting, but having dozens of different independent providers that can host them for you. You aren't stuck with a single one.
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upvoteby nomel4 hours ago|
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For most people, CC is cheaper tokens for a SOTA model.

What agentic platform would you recommend for those with API access (including other models)?

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upvoteby hootz4 hours ago|
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Basically any other that is not stuck to being managed just by one company. Claude Code does things like using CLAUDE.md and other stuff specific to just their platform, so you are basically locking your project, and everyone else who works on it, to Claude Code only, if you don't also port everything you do to other harnesses. If Anthropic is giving cheaper tokens in exchange for locking you in into their ecosystem, then maybe it's time to test other models and not just use Claude for everything.
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upvoteby reactordev3 hours ago|
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It also can respect AGENTS.md, just saying. It’s all about your README.md. But I’m with you about being agent agnostic.
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upvoteby hootz3 hours ago|
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Of course it can, it's Microsofty tactics, support everything but generate "proprietary" stuff by default. Read ODF but generate docx.
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upvoteby sidrag221 hours ago|
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works the other way as well, i have my opencode.jsonc which declares what model an agent should use, and it points at .claude/agents/ those agents each have their anthropic based model instead, almost feel like this broke in the past week though for just cc, hard to tell as cc keeps changing and i dont wanna update and learn more claude based nonsense again, if i wasn't locked into a year of pro or whatever, I would 100% be done using them entirely.
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upvoteby trollbridge4 hours ago|
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Most people would do fine with DeepSeek (4, Pro) and OpenCode.

Much cheaper too.

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upvoteby andyfilms14 hours ago|
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The comment wasn't about CC specifically. If you rely (like, can't ship without it) on any model that you don't control, it's not really your product. If Dario decides to increase pricing 500% because it's Tuesday, and you can't work without CC, you really have no choice but to open your wallet.
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upvoteby eddieroger4 hours ago|
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Open your wallet and pay someone who can? We used to call those technical cofounders, right?
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upvoteby krzyk4 hours ago|
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codex is also good, has better usage limits compared to CC.

Issue is that CC forced corps over 150 people into a API pricing, which is, well, suboptimal compared what we get. I think it will push those towards hiring more juniors (finally).

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upvoteby b65e8bee43c2ed04 hours ago|
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>I think it will push those towards hiring more...

...H1Bs.

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upvoteby new_account_1014 hours ago|
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If you need to use an "agentic platform" I'd recommend that you get accustomed to reading and writing without one.

If you can't one-shot your problem with the free LLM that Google gives you, you're jerking yourself off.

Just write it the old fashioned way.

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upvoteby binary00105 hours ago|
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I find it interesting how they are almost all specifically for Claude and/or Claude code. When open source glm-5.1 is just as good - if not better and stuff like opencode exists.

Makes one wonder...

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upvoteby beezlewax4 hours ago|
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How easy is that to setup by comparison?
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upvoteby Someone12344 hours ago|
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Not hard; just initially expensive (hardware mostly).

While I'm also a huge fan of local LLMs and believe they will be key in the future; I think the claim of "just as good" is hyperbole. They're productively useful tools though, and something worth exploration.

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upvoteby binary00104 hours ago|
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Well GLM-5.1 is 744billion params, no way I can run that locally. I use the opencode Go or Zen subscription. They have a zero day retention policy for all the model providers which is nice. And then I can still use little local models like qwen and stuff by just swapping over to them.

But GLM is SOTA level for code, so it's obviously going to beat all local small models by a lot.

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upvoteby binary00104 hours ago|
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Extremely easy.

Download opencode GUI or cli. Sign up for Go or Zen plan, choose GLM-5.1 model.

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upvoteby hootz4 hours ago|
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And you don't even have to use the OpenCode CLI, their subscription works with Pi, Charm and other harnesses. This is the way. If they screw up everything, I can drop their sub and go somewhere else.
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upvoteby zulban3 hours ago|
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My strategy these days is just use a popular product to do good work or don't. Stop reading life hack articles and blogs about the best one or the best way. Don't even click it.
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upvoteby sh_1233 hours ago|
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Do you have any resources for someone just getting started that you'd recommend? I've --successfully-- ignored AI for the last two years as I was taking care of our kiddo. I'm attempting to catch up in the next few weeks.
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upvoteby mh-3 hours ago|
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If you're talking about Claude Code: Just the official docs [0] and then the best practices tweeted by Anthropic team members like Boris (@bcherny).

Ignore all the 3rd party frameworks (at least for now, probably forever.)

[0]: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart

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upvoteby orochimaaru3 hours ago|
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It can stop now and you can choose not to click on the links :)
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upvoteby blitzar3 hours ago|
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Reachmaxxxing wannabe influencers who were too far gone to looksmaxxx have to do something to grift a living and NFTs are dead.
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upvoteby smallnix6 hours ago|
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You took the time to write out this comment. To the benefit of those who read it, please expand upon where the article is shallow and what content you miss.
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upvoteby jmull2 hours ago|
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The critique seems perfectly clear to me: The post has no value. There's nothing to salvage, no improvements to be made. It would be best if it simply did not exist.

The poster probably hopes (as many of us do) that people will absorb the sentiment and post less of this junk in the future.

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