no ACP support it seems :( Of all the AI buzzwords I love ACP because of the separation of concern. Let the editor be an editor, the harness be the ai code agent, and the llm be the llm
Since Gemma 4 came this easter the gap from self hosting models to Claude has decreased sigificantly I think. The gap is still huge it just that local models were extremely non-competitive before easter. So now it seems Qwen 3.6 is another bump up from Gemma 4 which is exciting if it is so. I keep an Opus close ofcourse, because these local models still wander off in the wrong direction and fails. Something Opus almost never does for me anymore.
But every time a local model gets me by - I feel closer to where I should be; writing code should still be free. Both free as in free beer, and free as in freedom.
My setup is a seperate dedicated Ubuntu machine with RTX 5090. Qwen 3.6:27b uses 29/32gb of vram when its working right this minute. I use Ollama in a non root podman instance. And I use OpenCode as ACP Service for my editor, which I highly recommend. ACP (Agent Client Protocol) is how the world should be in case you were asking, which you didnt :)
Exciting times and thank you Qwen team for making the world a better place in a world of Sam Altmans.
Geopolitics is a reason. Many individuals and companies are scrambling for safe alternatives to US tech. I live in Norway and there is a lot of this going on.
I would disagree. Amplified meens me and you get more s** done.
Unless there a limited amount of software we need to produce per year globally to keep everyone happy, then nobody wants more -- and we happen to be at that point right NOW this second.
I think not. We can make more (in less time) and people will get more. This is the mental "glass half full" approach I think. Why not take this mental route instead? We don't know the future anyway.
I like this. This is an accurate state of AI at this very moment for me. The LLM is (just) a tool which is making me "amplified" for coding and certain tasks.
I will worry about developers being completely replaced when I see something resembling it. Enough people worry about that (or say it to amp stock prices) -- and they like to tell everyone about this future too. I just don't see it.
I agree. They makes me nauseous. The same kind of light nausea as car sickness.
I assume our brains are used to stuff which we dont notice conciously, and reject very mild errors. I've stared at the picture a bit now and the finger holding the baloon is weird. The out of place snowman feels weird. If you follow the background blur around it isnt at the same depth everywehere. Everything that reflects, has reflections that I cant see in the scene.
I dont feel good staring at it now so I had to stop.
Hear hear. I poked around at almost all the packages on the top of that idemacs page. «minimap» stood out, and is such a brilliant name for its purpose. I enjoyed that discovery and the smirk it gave me today.
This is true. They are problematic also. Especially Putin, which I believe we are partially responsible for also. The desire for better governments is not snobbery. Especially from the US and China, because they suck big time right now and they are the most influencial globally.