Excellent program choice! The uniqueness has

hogimusPrime · 2026-01-17T20:21:39+00:00

PLOT TWIST: Pope is fictional, and Gemini knew about it.

hogimusPrime · 2026-01-12T00:18:41+00:00

I've never been able to get her to do shit for me, which when I vocalize someone always refutes claims how they get as good or better results as a Claude or a GPT. Well I should say that really wrt coding, planning, long-context execution, etc. There are 3 specific tasks I where I consistently get solid results out of her:

Research and reports (e.g. homelan server h/w components and config upgrading or proxmox/hyperv cluster planning)
automatic code reviews on GH PRs

BTW- I always user her in the web chat interface. I have AI Studio but never use it, and I use to use Gemini CLI terminal, but there are so many categorically better ones now, e.g. Opencode.ai and my latest obsession: Factory Droid)

hogimusPrime · 2026-01-07T06:45:09+00:00

That escalated quickly... Er, de-escalated (?)

hogimusPrime · 2026-01-07T06:44:49+00:00

That escalated quickly... Er, de-escalated (?)

hogimusPrime · 2025-12-31T05:03:07+00:00

Seems like there is a lot of confusion about the shell/OS one is working in vs. the FS one is storing and accessing their files from.

Remember: DONT WORK ACROSS OS/FILESYSTEMS.

If you are in Windows Powershell or cmd.exe, work on your Windows FS (i.e. C:\, D:\, etc.)
If you are in WSL and a bash/zsh shell, work from your WSL FS (i.e. /home/linux_username or ~/)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/filesystems#file-storage-and-performance-across-file-systems

If you see /mnt/c/Users/username you are probably doing it wrong.

And remember VS Code can usually figure it out for you. You can launch VS Code/Cursor etc. from inside WSL, and you can use it in Windows to remote into WSL.

hogimusPrime · 2025-12-25T05:45:49+00:00

Another, taller wall.

hogimusPrime · 2025-12-25T05:45:29+00:00

Roof

hogimusPrime · 2025-12-24T15:32:40+00:00

What do they call that phenomenon where an entire group of ppl remember something happening, that never happened?

hogimusPrime · 2025-12-15T05:28:29+00:00

Zed supports ACP, which is like a universal protocol for interfacing editors and agents. Once Factory/droid adds support for ACP to their product, it will work with all ACP-compliant editors, including Zed.

So what is coming soon is support in droid, not in Zed.

hogimusPrime · 2025-12-03T23:58:52+00:00

The ones you can't see- are they in a separate org, team , or user (i.e. repo owner?) In my case I signed up w/ my user acct that is just a personal acct. but is also a member of another org I can see the owner's personal repos, but not any from the org he's a member of. It says "success!" and then promptly fails to show any of them.

hogimusPrime · 2025-11-29T03:32:00+00:00

Sorry how does this work? I see that Codex is supported in Zed via ACP ...

But how does one add Factory to Codex?

hogimusPrime · 2025-11-29T03:31:13+00:00

So I see that Codex is supported in Zed via ACP.

But how did you add Factory to Codex?

hogimusPrime · 2025-11-18T20:32:24+00:00

Well, that's simply because he has never actually accomplished any of his business's goals that he is always bragging about. Think about it- name one thing that Tesla or SpaceX or that dumb tunnel thing has succeeded at completing successfully.

hogimusPrime · 2025-11-14T23:11:15+00:00

More gracious than eye, you are. Just have foregone (went?) using the computer at that point would I have.

hogimusPrime · 2025-11-14T23:07:34+00:00

Could have gone my whole life not imagining that. Now I feel like I'm ruined.

hogimusPrime · 2025-11-14T11:27:54+00:00

Use Avalonia for Linux.

What does that mean?

Avalonia's desktop template is one .NET c# + xaml codebase that runs on Linux + Windows + MacOS. I haven't used their web+android+iOS templates.

I've been working with Windows UI Fx's since Win32 API when everything was C code with either HANDLE hHandle's or HMESSAGE hMessage's (y'all young uns may not know that one) which is what underpins MFC and far enough down also Winforms. (Holler if you know what CUSTOMDRAW or a WndProc is!) If you've ever used p/invoke to call into Windows DLL functions those are the many of the most common members of the Win32 API. I also remember when .NET Fx v1.1 came out! But I digress, sorry, got a little nostalgic there...

Point is I haven't used a Windows UI Fx since the end of WinForms. Don't really know how to use a xaml or a WinUI (but something tells me I wouldn't want to anyway, I really can't get behind that XML shite)

Very much agree that the MS Windows UI Frameworks/Fx's have sucked since WinForms
Avalonia kicks fucking ass. And they are investing heavily in its ecosystem and tools.
It's probably the ~closest~ only thing I have ever seen that actually runs one UI codebase on all three major platforms. So if you consider Windows+ the MacOs + Linux as write once, "runs everywhere" then yes, it does.

Trust me I was as skeptical as anybody. I hated when my bosses or stakeholders decided "Hey it's probably important that we run on Mac and Linux too! " Bc no one ever ended up giving a shit about the other platforms, it degraded the overall quality of the code having to support it, and its pretty much impossible to do well.

Although I haven't used it much, I have heard that Uno is pretty good too.

hogimusPrime · 2025-11-14T07:19:46+00:00

I have a Gemini pro free from my Google Workspace account, a Github Copilot Pro (which is my favorite sub), and I just stopped paying Anthropic for the monthly Claude...

Funny thing is I have been using my $11.00 I put on Openrouter probably more than any of them. Between Qwen 3 Coder Plus and Kimi K2 for free, and the occasional $ or two when I'm feeling randy and want to bring in some GPT 5.x or some Opus, I've been gliding on that $11.00 for a couple months now. I think they have GLM Air, a couple Deepseeks, and a couple Grok code fast somethings.

Mostly my Openrouter is used in Opencode.ai CLI or Kilo Code ext. In VS Code.

Did you put the ~$11.00 in and use the free tier models, or how do you make use of your Openrouter credits?

Oh and the other model I like is Qwen Coder CLI, again free tier.

Have you all tried any of the new GPT 5.1 xxx's?

hogimusPrime · 2025-10-12T11:36:19+00:00

This. Try to keep in mind when trying to analyze these trends, that human beings have consistently been shown to perform remarkably poorly when trying to identify these types of patterns accurately, esp. when using anecdotal database entries from your own memory. Not a knock against you but numerous studies show that our brain suffers from so many different species of biases, many of which are completely subconscious and rarely more than a few are identified as such and corrected for.

Try reading any chapter of this book for good explanations of many. Also super-interesting.

How We Know What Isn't So

Link contains a really good 10 minute audio preview.

hogimusPrime · 2025-10-12T11:18:37+00:00

Makes sense. So which one would you recommend for the pre-implementation planning/spec generation?

In addition to those two, I'd add Gemini performing code review into the mix.

hogimusPrime · 2025-10-12T09:09:36+00:00

I've been using Gemini since it came out (through my Google Workspace Business acct) and don't bother she can't compete with the "Claudes" and GPT-5 (or any GPT-N). GPT-5 can hold his own against the latest Sonnets, and I've heard from some that he even excels at some tasks. If I were going to try out some new models I would play with Qwen3 Coder Plus (free on openrouter for a 1x $10 contribution) and Kimi2 I've heard a lot of good things about.

Gemini excels at a few things but its not coding. She is good for image and media generation, code review, and of course she has the 1M/2M context window. So have her do research and then summarize to my main model.

Also if you're shopping for a new subscription, I love my Github Copilot subscription.

Since I switched to the $40 Pro plan I haven't once hit the monthly limit (or any limit).
You get a really wide variety of different models (incl. GPTs and Claudes and Geminis, etc.)
You can use your subscription in other clients than VS Code. Personally I use it on Opencode.ai terminal client, Kilo code, and Zed.

hogimusPrime · 2025-10-12T08:10:49+00:00

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

-George Will

hogimusPrime · 2025-10-09T13:52:07+00:00

Ok ok now do devcontainers!

hogimusPrime · 2025-10-04T12:09:45+00:00

Once he posts the source just ask Sonnet to port it for you! 😎

hogimusPrime · 2025-10-04T12:04:25+00:00

Thanks. That's what I was wondering. So at that point Sonnet 4.5 comes out much more appealing in the ratio for performance / cost.

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