> While refactoring my code it noticed that it needs to see what this command is which it is invoking, so it even went so far as to search through vs code's user data to find the recent files history if it can find out more about that command... I stopped it and told it that if it has problems, it should tell me.
TIL that there's an especially apt xkcd comic for this scenario: "Zealous Autoconfig"
> There seems to be zero output from they guy for the past 2 years (except tweets)
Well, he made Nanochat public recently and has been improving it regularly [1].
This doesn't preclude that he might be working on other projects that aren't public yet (as part of his work at Eureka Labs).
> ... and then it was all killed because Apple did not dare to open source it, or put serious efforts on their own into improving the technical base of the flash player (that had aquired lots of technical dept).
IIRC, they couldn't open source Flash due to its use of a number of 3rd party C/C++ libraries that were proprietary.
Adobe's license with these 3rd parties permitted binary-only distribution so it would have meant renegotiating a fresh license (and paying out $$$) for an EOL codebase that had enormous technical debt, as you also acknowledge in your last sentence.
When you state it like that, I now totally understand why Anthropic have a strong incentive to kick out OpenCode.
OpenCode is incentivized to make a good product that uses your token budget efficiently since it allows you to seamlessly switch between different models.
Anthropic as a model provider on the other hand, is incentivized to exhaust your token budget to keep you hooked. You'll be forced to wait when your usage limits are reached, or pay up for a higher plan if you can't wait to get your fix.
CC, specifically Opus 4.5, is an incredible tool, but Anthropic is handling its distribution the way a drug dealer would.
It's like the very first days of computers at all. IBM supplied both the hardware and the software, and the software did not make the most efficient use of the hardware.
Which was nothing new itself of course. Conflicts of interest didn't begin with computers, or probably even writing.
OpenCode also would be incentivized to do things like having you configure multiple providers and route requests to cheaper providers where possible.
Controlling the coding tool absolutely is a major asset, and will be an even greater asset as the improvements in each model iteration makes it matter less which specific model you're using.
I'm similar and I think it comes down to the exploration versus exploitation dilemma [1].
When I'm in exploration mode, time is plentiful. This makes linear mediums like videos excellent primary sources of information.
When I'm in exploitation mode, time is short making videos a bad fit for the time I have to spend. I'd rather prefer text-based primary sources that will allow non-linear consumption.
Thanks for those links. GitHub Copilot looks like a good deal at $10/mo for a range of models.
I originally thought they only supported the previous generation models i.e. Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro based on the copy on their pricing page [1] but clicking through [2] shows that they support far more models.
Yes, it's a great deal especially because you get access to such a wide range of models, including some free ones, and they only rate limit for a couple minutes at a time, not 5 hours. And if you go over the monthly limit you can just buy more at $0.04 a request instead of needing to switch to a higher plan. The big downside is the 128k context windows.
Lately Copilot have been getting access to new frontier models the same day they release elsewhere. That wasn't the case months ago (GPT 5.1). But annoyingly you have to explicitly enable each new model.
In practice, how does switching between Claude and GitHub Copilot work?
1. Do you start off using the Claude Code CLI, then when you hit limits, you switch to the GitHub Copilot CLI to finish whatever it is you are working on?
2. Or, you spend most of your time inside VSCode so the model switching happens inside an IDE?
3. Or, you are more of a strict browser-only user, like antirez :)?
I always start in the Claude CLI. Once I hit the token limit, I can do two things: either use Copilot Claude to finish the job, or pick up something completely different, and let the other task wait until the token limit resets. Most importantly, I'm never blocked waiting for the cap.
TIL that there's an especially apt xkcd comic for this scenario: "Zealous Autoconfig"
https://xkcd.com/416/
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