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hypfertoday at 11:52 AM1 replyview on HN

FWIW, I don't think that they're being malicious. They instead just seem to have no idea nor do they care.

And the original comment I've replied to proves this strategy right! So from a business standpoint: excellent work.


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bbortoday at 12:49 PM

Glad my arbitrary failure to try them has worked out! For people seeking OS-native harnesses, I can recommend Factory's Droid. I know I'll be returning to it with my head hung low today, after I uninstall ZCode.

It does have a "mission" feature that's stuck in the strange, distant times of 2025 by way overdoing mandatory verification steps, which means they don't support swarms/workflows/crews/fleets yet -- that is, it's all done in sequence. But they have the boring, corporate engineering attitude that I think we're are all craving rn, and generally seem competent.

I can heartily dis-recommend Vix, even though they gamed themselves to the top of at least one ranking site that shall not be named; exactly like the quasi-bad-faith incompetence described with OpenCode above, but without even the "Open-" branding! Though perhaps that word has been so thoroughly burnt as a prefix by Sam Altman & Microsoft's criminal behavior that we should let it go...

Is this how "FLOSS" wins over "OSS"? Not with an ideological bang, but with a marketing issue?

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