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The model is (like Composer 2) based on Kimi K2.5 and they claim SOTA performance for 1/10th of the cost. The tweet also mentions that they've started a new model from scratch on Colossus 2 (xAI/SpaceX Cluster). Really impressive how they've made this jump from being called the vscode fork with no moat just a couple of months ago.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 10 months ago

In the same boat and ready to downgrade. But this must be on their radar, or they were/are losing money with opus...

I see, thanks for explaining and congrats on the launch! After re-reading the description, the ability to use other frameworks might become a USP too.

Just a random remark, what's annoying and a pain point in my workflow are definitely proper development environments for agents . Not just runtimes but also managing secrets etc. Maybe an avenue to explore and use in marketing copy.

I agree with the general sentiment here that this is the future of coding for a lot of tasks. But in terms of a business case for your product I'm really struggling to see how this beats Claude code action? Which integrates directly with GitHub, at no additional cost, and I can use an oauth token to use my subscription.

Haven't used Windsurf yet, but in other tools this is called 'Agent' mode. So you open up the chat modal to talk to an LLM, then select 'Agent' mode and send your prompt.

Cursor 1.0 1 year ago

Yes, they've updated the docs since last week, I guess. Before, it didn't mention the 20% markup.

Cursor 1.0 1 year ago

thanks! i never set this up properly. did it now though, really cool!

Cursor 1.0 1 year ago

Cursor recently lost me as a customer. Too many updates that disturb my workflow and productivity, no easy way to roll back versions, super sparse changelogs, lots of magic in context building, really untransparent pricing on max mode. I recently made the switch to Claude Code on the Max plan and I couldn't be happier. The only real thing I'm missing is the diff view across files, but I assume it's just a matter of time until that's properly implemented in Zed or VSCode.

This sounds really cool. Can you explain your workflow in a bit more detail? i.e. how exactly you work with codex to implement features, fix bugs etc.

Really interesting method. I've been calling a similar strategy the library effect. Whenever I work in an environment where other people are productive (or at least look productive) I can focus much better and get in the zone. It's now gotten to a point where I'm actively seeking desks with my screen exposed to the room, so people would be able to see me procrastinate, guilt tripping me to limit this sort of behavior.

This looks really cool, thanks for sharing!

I recently tried to implement a workflow automation using similar frameworks that were playwright or puppeteer based. My goal was to log into a bunch of vendor backends and extract values for reporting (no APIs available). What stopped me entirely were websites that implemented an invisible captcha. They can detect a playwright instance by how it interacts with the DOM. Pretty frustrating, but I can totally see this becoming a standard as crawling and scraping is getting out of control.

It depends on what your setup looks like. If your using tailwind and a headless component library like radix or shadcn. LLMs can provide you with pretty decent looking layouts from very simple prompts. If your using plain CSS outputs can vary widely in quality, at least from my own experience.

This is amazing, thanks for sharing. I'm implementing some of these techniques myself right now, but being able to try out different algorithms and having plugins etc available immediately is really cool! Can't wait to try it out.

How are you dealing with structured outputs?

WPE's core business is "hosting for WordPress websites". If they were to change this to "ForkPress", they'll have to rebuild the brand and search volume behind it. So I'm not convinced that this is a viable solution to their current problem.

Love self-hosting and really got into it over the last couple of months. I run a bunch of services for my company now and also in my home lab. I use a Hetzner VPS and provision things either via ansible + docker compose files or via https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify/.

The awesome-selfhosted repository is also a great place to find projects to self-host but lacks some features for ease-of-use, which is why I've created a directory with some UX improvements on https://selfhostedworld.com. It has search, filters projects by stars, trending, date and also has a dark-mode.

I think linen definitely solves a lot of issues OSS communities face when the majority of issues are answered on discord/slack. The need for such a tool should decrease as docs mature however. So maybe a tool to integrate with or update the docs could be cool.

On a general note I think you should link back to your landing page from the navigation of a project. Especially if people enter via a search engine, they are essentially locked within an organization. The only way out is to manually navigate to linen.dev.

MRSK vs. Fly.io 3 years ago

Is there a repo you could share for such a setup? Currently looking at similar options for self hosting web apps on cloud providers.