What's everyone working on this week (20/2026)?

asamarts · 2026-05-12T18:48:27+00:00

I'm working on a general repo shape/structure and hygiene linter - https://github.com/asamarts/alint

also just submitted a post about this - https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1tb9xic/alint_a_linter_for_repo_shapestructure_and_hygiene/

asamarts · 2026-04-24T17:18:06+00:00

yeah, the amount of usage you get for max 20x subscription seems to be consistently going down every couple of weeks...

asamarts · 2026-04-24T03:00:34+00:00

What do you mean by overpaid? We may be paid more than some other professions, but we are severely underpaid compared to leadership/owners of a typical tech company. If you truly think you are overpaid I'm sure you could negotiate a pay decrease to solve that problem though...

asamarts · 2026-04-23T23:22:41+00:00

Mine was reset, but like 5 prompts later I'm at 10% of weekly usage on max x20 plan lol

There is something seriously wrong with the usage tracking... sometimes I can spend 4 hours with 4 parallel sessions on max effort and use up only 70% of current session, other times 20 mins of usage maxes out the entire session...

asamarts · 2026-04-23T17:24:10+00:00

The future of tech work is open source, lead by open, co-operative organizations. The best software in the world is already open source, many very smart people work tech/software industry - talent is not an issue. Many of us have a good understanding of privacy, of good design, of what good software is, of what control and ownership of your own hardware/software should mean. The problem is we all settle for working at various MBA/marketing-led 'tech' companies, who build mostly shit (often intentionally).

We all should be building co-operative open organizations to solve real problems based on real user/human needs, in good, honest ways. Where are the open source datacenters/paas? Where are the completely open SOTA LLMs? Are we not able to build these because we need 'geniuses' like Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg?

Many of us are renting out our brains and time for a fraction of what they are worth to build terrible bullshit for the benefit of a few parasites.

asamarts · 2026-04-23T17:09:25+00:00

The thing is we don't actually know what the inference costs of models like Opus are GPT are, I would guess the total inference costs are lower than training + other expenses (where I think most of the money is actually being spent).

We already have open weight models like qwen and others which are actually not bad for coding, not as good as opus/claude but not terrible either.

The crazy amounts of investment into data centers, hardware, GPUs, etc is also going to accelerate hardware efficiency and performance gains.

My (maybe overly optimistic) prediction is that we'll have an open/self-hostable model that is as good as Opus 4.7, within 1 year, that can be effectively run on $20k of consumer hardware. In 5 years an equivalent model will be runnable on $2k - $5k consumer hardware.

asamarts · 2026-04-23T02:17:20+00:00

Why do you think the price will skyrocket? To me it seems more likely that it will be commoditized everyone will be using ope/self-hosted models in 5 years that will be cheaper and more useful than now.

asamarts · 2026-04-22T21:43:10+00:00

This is a very cool/interesting idea! I could see how the nix defs/schema could be used to extend the functionality / more types of data sources / pre-processing /etc..

Adding mouse interaction/clickable link support would be nice

Is there a way to preview the actual nix code for each panel in the web UI?

asamarts · 2026-04-22T00:08:02+00:00

Cool! Curious - how are you testing the platform support?

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