alt Hacker NewsThis is an important article. I hadn’t realized it was already getting this bad. Like a frog enjoying a nice warm bath ...
> Most people do not switch their operating system or phone provider every week either. But even if you do not utilize that freedom, it matters because it changes the relationship you have with the provider and the provider has with you.
This is why it’s important to utilize your freedoms. Do NOT let yourself get locked into a particular ecosystem (this is why I’m building a phone app for OpenCode).
This article makes me reconsider using my recently acquired Codex sub in my home setup. I never liked that they hide the reasoning, but somehow overrode the cognitive dissonance because the performance is so good. But the inauditability is already a huge problem.
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>Like a frog enjoying a nice warm bath...
Exactly :-)
Call me naive but I think dark patterns are a short term strategy for winning and I'm optimistic that in the long run they will be replaced with those that are more respectful and oriented to the greater good (granted, the long run might take more time than one hopes for).
Given that the pendulum can sometime swing back fast enough to be able leverage it, it might be a good time to focus on models that are both open weights and economically viable to run to build the next great thing.
I am waiting for prices to get down and in the meanwhile I am gathering as much session data from claude/codex as possible so I can then later use them to fine tune open models. I've built my own session parser/archiver for this.
> This article makes me reconsider using my recently acquired Codex sub in my home setup. I never liked that they hide the reasoning, but somehow overrode the cognitive dissonance because the performance is so good. But the inauditability is already a huge problem.
Same, I dislike it so much I've acquired 96GB of VRAM to run local models, but sadly nothing so far, even with that amount of VRAM, comes even close to running Codex with GPT models. I really, really, really want local models to be ready, and things like Laguna S2.1 NVFP4 gets really close of almost being there, when it comes to coding specifically. But still feels like we have a long way to go for local models to be serious general purpose alternatives.
This is the way.
You are building a phone app for open code?
You mean like fossify phone or?
And yet people still go with Sign in with Google as the only login method.
It was with the transience of valuable agent session dialogue in mind that I built https://www.agentkanban.io - A key feature is context capture in the tasks which you create on the board and then progress in agent sessions. Supported agents are currently Claude and Github CoPilot in VS Code. All of your context is captured in the task and can be reloaded into new agent sessions at any point in the future. Tool use is intentionally discarded because it is proprietary in nature and therefore breaks the promise of session portability.