drschwabe · HackerTrans

há 4 horasdiscuss

When you use opencode to use Claude and Chatgpt models ie- Fable or GPT 5.6 I assume you are getting billed on pure credits? I was under the assumption that you can only use your Claude/ChatGPT paid plans when using Claude Code or Codex. ie- that you would be paying way more via opencode since you would not be getting the extra limits subsidized by your paid plans.

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há 3 diasdiscuss

Same here, and if you really need its key features just add JSDoc and Zod to any given vanilla JS codebase.

Passing around mixed types is not necessarily an anti-pattern either ie- you can do type-checking at runtime and use them as conditions for branching into different control flow patterns - so I don't see the benefit of universal enforcement; not that most TS codebases do anyway (ironically).

I personally don't have a need for TS which introduces an extra build step, extra ritual when defining functions, and no performance benefit over vanilla JS. If I want stricter coding pattern with performance benefits I will use C/C++ for the job instead.

drschwabe

há 10 diasdiscuss

Nice, lucky! The Opencode Go GLM 5.2 quota gets used up so fast. It's an expensive model. And while impressive for being open weight, it seems slower than Opus and GPT. So I typically only use it after exhausting quotas of discounted GPT5.5 or Opus 4.6^ paid plans.

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há 10 diasdiscuss

Are you micromanaging your GLM costs? It seems the best bang for buck strategy right now is a Opencode Go subscription to get the subsidized rate and then switch to Openrouter's model above and beyond that + make use of a dual model strategy by having GLM 5.2 do planning and Deepseek V4 Flash for implementation.

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mês passadodiscuss

Sure but if you're really unhappy with your employer employeeing you for 8 hours a day you can also harness this power on your own personal projects to help break free from the 9-5 grind if you so desire.

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mês passadodiscuss

This isn't a direct answer, because I agree it is difficult to move away from Github's familiarities amongst developers - so it doesn't necessarily solve the problem for a collaborative codebase involving a handful or more developers (complete with Issues, PRs, etc) but if you are working with a less technical/developer oriented team ie- regardless of org size it's just you or maybe one other teammate who are the only ones involved directly in code/PRs then you can fairly trivially roll your own issue tracker or wiki.

Particularly if your work and the employer/client/org is primarily based on a web project (extra points, you already are managing their auth) then you could simply add a new subdomain or route to your existing web project that serves said self-hosted issue tracker or wiki.

Of course these things can get into the weeds but I do think that given the dramatically reduced turnaround times for a competent dev to spin up and customize in-house/self-hosted solutions for basic things like issues and wikis the strategy is more relevant and prudent than ever.

drschwabe

há 2 mesesdiscuss

What type of engineer, who until a year ago - because of AI apparently - is suddenly no longer concerned about code? Personally I'm just as concerned about code because AI has not changed the fact that it still takes a really long time to develop stable, secure software (ie- if you're making software to do ambitious things). Nothing about modern AI tools eliminate the need to get in the zone; using AI to amplify one's engineering skills let's us solve the next problem faster - but in software there are unlimited problems.

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há 4 mesesdiscuss

Too little too late, open source Windows 7 and give it a new 10 year LTS commitment then we can talk.

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há 7 mesesdiscuss

Unironically JavaScript is quite good for single file projects (albeit a package.json usually needed)

You can do a huge website entirely in a single file with NodeJS; you can stick re-usable templates in vars and absue multi-line strings (template literals) for all your various content and markup. If you get crafty you can embed clientside code in your 'server.js' too or take it to the next level and use C++ multi-line string literals to wrap all your JS ie- client.js, server.js and package.json in a single .cpp file

drschwabe

há 7 mesesdiscuss

When I first read the source for his original QuickJS implementation I was amazed to discover he created the entirety of JavaScript in a single xxx thousand line C file (more or less).

That was a sort of defining moment in my personal coding; a lot of my websites and apps are now single file source wherever possible/practical.

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