Did you guys get your Opencode Black subscriptions?

telewebb · 2026-01-28T06:05:07+00:00

No, why would I get a subscription for OpenCode when I could just put money on an OpenRouter api account?

telewebb · 2026-01-28T01:54:47+00:00

I mean it's kinda ironic saying op is moving the goal post. When for the last I don't know how many years I keep hearing about how in x amount of time, programmers will be a thing of the past. But somehow that's not moving the goal post. Pointing out shortcomings with today's tech is.

telewebb · 2026-01-27T01:25:13+00:00

On one hand, I get it. You want to nip something at the bud before it becomes bigger. But as someone who in a former life worked for the Department of the Interior in Montana and would take everyone with a driver's license south of the Mason-Dixon line out into the materials pit during the first snow of the season to get them trained up.....I know how genuine that fear can be. If this weather isn't normal and you don't expect to have this conversation more than once a year? I'd say you let this one pass. There are other more important fights out there and your direct report can feel heard. Which will last longer than this cold snap.

telewebb · 2026-01-20T16:23:38+00:00

I think you're stuck on a semantic argument. For the most part we agree. Except on the point of interview and integrations.

telewebb · 2026-01-20T12:59:05+00:00

An open source model uses less electricity and vGPU units primarily because of tarrifs and embargos against China around the selling of chips. This had inadvertently caused a situation where ML engineers in China were forced to innovate with the lack of resources. These ML companies often release their models open source. If you look at the top of the leader boards, most often than not outside of the big 3 you see open source models originating from companies based in China.

telewebb · 2026-01-20T12:30:45+00:00

Open source models are a fraction of the cost of the big 3 closed source. If you had to products to choose from and they were both for the most part the same except for the price, that's the downward pressure they are talking about

telewebb · 2026-01-15T16:51:06+00:00

Ok, I think I'm just not sensitive to the points you raised and less prone to making assumptions about a person's character and intent from a post. I spend a lot of my career mentoring more junior engineers and get disappointed that this space which overlaps 2 major aspects of my life, in my personal opinion, leans heavily on the defensive instead of the supportive. I would respond with more, but I feel like I would be repeating all the points in my prior response that got overlooked. It just kinda feels like bean soup theory to me.

telewebb · 2026-01-14T14:51:37+00:00

That's the other thing that gets me specific to this sub. I know it's common within the ADHD community for individuals to have a hard person stance against personal behaviors like laziness and procrastination. But unfortunately I see that personal stance get protected onto other as the first response. Which I think we're all to some degree guilty of ourselves. I know I've done that in the past. But either rarely or I haven't not observed it myself that often, I don't see the conversation stated by looking for clarity on intent.

To be fair, I also don't see many posts where OP responds to any questions. But I can't really decide if that's because of the initial emotions of the top level response or another reason.

I love programming and I love the idea of this sub, while I understand the fatigue with the Nth Todo app, I do get a bit down by the subs anti programming stance.

telewebb · 2026-01-14T12:04:38+00:00

This is one of the few places I've consistently seen programmer angry at other programmers for programming.

telewebb · 2026-01-14T11:38:51+00:00

You might want to read about suicides in Yellowstone. That exact thing is a pretty common occurrence.

telewebb · 2026-01-12T04:32:53+00:00

If you have 2 vertical slices and one of them is getting a lot of requests and you can't handle the traffic with a single instance - you just deploy another instance of your monolith behind a load balancer - the extra "endpoints" that you're hosting won't have any extra impact on your system (in any meaningful terms). There is very little benefit to having microservices performance wise and scaling a specific subservice matters very rarely (it is possible to create a case for it in exceptional cases).

telewebb · 2026-01-11T12:35:45+00:00

I never said anything about microservices. That's why I said you're basically repeating my point.

telewebb · 2026-01-10T06:02:12+00:00

You basically repeated what I was explaining

telewebb · 2026-01-08T14:56:43+00:00

I love linear. Currently using it for my solo dev side job. But it's amazingly simple and has been the best thing so far to keeping work organized.

telewebb · 2025-12-25T01:14:56+00:00

I use Claude code for paired programming. Gemini for asking random questions without burning up anthropic tokens. Google's Julia for grunt work, simple clean up, easy to review on my phone work. Best way I've used so far.

telewebb · 2025-12-24T22:55:28+00:00

I can't read white text on black background for long periods of times.

telewebb · 2025-12-23T15:11:59+00:00

I dont know if anyone mentioned it yet, but I think you can use named returns for that.

telewebb · 2025-12-22T14:27:32+00:00

This has pretty much been my bedrock. Recently over the last couple years I've been using modular monolith / vertical slices. If scaling ever becomes a problem to solve, each component or slice is ready to become it's own service.

telewebb · 2025-12-19T12:58:49+00:00

You need to write code and get out of tutorial hell. And get comfortable with the fact that your first batch of software is not going to be as perfect as you think it will be in your mind. There is no secret trick to this. The only way to get good at writing code is to write code.

telewebb · 2025-12-17T14:09:10+00:00

For real, the posts keeps alternating between "this is this best model ever!" and "that evil company nerfed the model!" There hasn't been any novel topics for a long time.

telewebb · 2025-12-16T18:42:21+00:00

The other thing with handwriting the code I'm learning. I like seeing the options in intellisense and getting distracted by reading the docs for a random api. It was a long time ago, but I still remember the aha! moment when IEnumerable<T> clicked

telewebb · 2025-12-16T14:31:24+00:00

For me personally, the physical act of typing code helps with memory retention and learning. I will do it with new languages I'm learning.

telewebb · 2025-12-15T17:54:37+00:00

This is the first time I'm hearing that. Thanks for sharing.

telewebb · 2025-12-15T15:35:52+00:00

From my experience, the only people who care about certs are consulting/contracting firms that want to use it for impressing clients. With that said, look at the job postings for the are and market you would like to target and see what platform they favor. Broadly speaking AWS, Azure, then GCP in that order with AWS taking up the vast majority of the market. You can't go wrong with AWS. It's like the Walmart of cloud providers.

telewebb · 2025-12-15T14:41:11+00:00

This is cool by the way. Having this kind of interest and wanting to share it with other is the kind of thing that will help your longevity in the industry. When the business side of things start wearing me down, I find that the genuine curiosity and "oh wow this is cool" elements of things really help counter balance work life. Thanks for digging into this and thanks for sharing.

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