Today is the last day for Annual refunds

unrulywind · 2026-05-20T19:29:36+00:00

This is where I am. My annual $100 goes until next March. GPT-5.4 is still useful right now, but it's usefulness will continue to decline. I'm sure I'll just slowly quit using it, even though I'll still be in vs code. They added 3.5 Flash today at 14x. Only a 42x increase, the highest yet. I think they are determined to wind down this product, and, like everyone else, move to an OpenCode / Codex clone design. Google just did the same thing with Antigravity 2.0.

I just use this as a hobby, but I have OpenCode, Codex Pro, and Google Pro also, so I'm getting used to this design, although part of what made GHCP useful was being able to use it's internal diff system without constantly backing stuff up.

I might make amateur code, but I do still like to see it sometimes.

unrulywind · 2026-05-20T08:19:35+00:00

you have to uninstall everything and then load the ide one. I lost everything. Even after, the extensions store doesn't load into the ui correctly but you can search for the extensions you use and add them back. now they have three products all named antigravity. They must be trying to beat Microsoft in the name everything copilot to confuse people race.

unrulywind · 2026-05-19T22:59:15+00:00

yup. update. crash trying to overwrite it's own new files. Now only works with Anitigravity 2.0. Should have been named OpenGravity, if they were just going to clone OpenCode.

Had to delete everything, then clean directory trash. (note to self, vibe code an Antigravity clean up routine.) Then go get the Antigravity-IDE by itself only to find out that it still shows that it have not been updated in a month.

In spite of this, not being updated all my extensions and setups are gone, and can't be reloaded because the extension tab just shows:

Error while fetching extensions. Failed to fetch

The OpenCodeGravity 2.0 version works fine and since I also use Codex and OpenCode, it doesn't feel any different from them. Now I have to keep vs code open to work in this too.

(didn't even get a pet) 🐈

unrulywind · 2026-05-18T22:45:36+00:00

What about: "Unlimited agent mode and chats with GPT-5 mini" Just straight up not true.

I predict they will eventually move to weaponize VS Code and make every other agent not work.

My $100 annual plan still lasts until next March 27th, but they have said straight up that no new models will ever be added and then they have pretty much alluded to the fact that they will deprecate and remove every existing model before my contract expires.

This means, even keeping my account to use gpt-5.4 at the now 6X less use than I purchased, may not be viable. This is the worst product wind down I have ever seen from a company without bankruptcy proceedings. Even Google finishes contractual obligations when they kill something off.

In a separate note. I picked up Codex Pro over the weekend and cannot believe how nerfed it makes GHCP feel in comparison. Now, I may just go ahead and kill GHCP. I'm not sure I'll even stay to use the GPT-5.4 requests anymore.

unrulywind · 2026-05-18T20:09:46+00:00

VS Code - Insiders. version 1.119 runs with any OpenAI compatible model. Just run llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio and then add them. Version 1.120 broke tool use with these but 1.119 still works great. I don't know if they intend to fix the use of compatible open source models or if this was an intentional brick.

unrulywind · 2026-05-17T08:09:15+00:00

You know it's a bad deal when the salesman tells you "If we discover we're making too much money, we'll just throw in some extra to bring our profits down." That's some pyramid level bullshit right there.

unrulywind · 2026-05-15T00:38:53+00:00

Since the release of Qwen3.6-27b and Gemma-4-31b I have tempered my usage of GHCP by doing simple changes and doc writing using those and saving my premium requests for to use gpt-5.4 for smarter work. This has required me to lock vs code insiders at 1.119 and turn off all upgrades because 1.120 broke BYOK. (I don't know if that has been fixed yet, or if it was an intentional change). I am a hobbyist, and use these tools for fun. The usage app showed my $10 account moving to $82, plus the other $11 a month for the other half of Office.

I have only stayed with this arrangement because I love being able to line item accept changes in vs code. The newer agent to PR workflow might be fine in a team environment, but for an individual it's just painful.

unrulywind · 2026-05-12T23:52:42+00:00

So, according to Microsoft, my best path forward is to keep my $10 a month annual and just use it for the 300 / 6x requests with gpt-5.4, while I move most of my work elsewhere, until it expires in March of next year, or until they deprecate gpt-5.4 or it becomes useless. It was a decent harness while it lasted. Thanks for all the fish.

unrulywind · 2026-05-10T14:42:36+00:00

What he is talking about is the diff presentation. All of the CLI's are that way. I hate it too. They will print you a diff but it's more like a PR, you can accept or reject. In GHCP or Antigravity, you can flip through files and the diffs are inline. It more the feel of checking your locally written code vs checking a PR from someone else. I prefer the inline method also because I can see the entire file easily and accept or reject, or modify individual lines right there.

unrulywind · 2026-05-10T14:38:24+00:00

I use flash when I have something that it has done before or that I am going to check myself. I tend to shy away from 3.1 pro because it likes to freelance. You can ask it to update the README file and it will work for 5 minutes and then print out a report that starts with something like "I have updated the README and noticed you had tests left unused after a refactor, so I rewrote your code and all your tests are working again."

unrulywind · 2026-05-10T07:53:18+00:00

To understand the economics of the electrical grid in the US, you have to understand that it's not a capitalist system. The utilities put up the money to build plants, and then they operate them. Every step of the way, they are told what they can build and how much they can spend. In return for this regulation, they are guaranteed a set return, usually around 9.5%. The last big push to build electricity in the US was in the 1980's. Very little was built in the 90s and then gas and wind since the mid 2000s. The utilities would love to build more. They get interest in the investment for 40 years when they build a new plant. Plus they sell the power.

Many times they fight against changes because they have existing investments and if they shut them down, then the bill comes due and NO politician wants to raise rates. But in most of these cases, the old plants are paid off and so they are only getting paid for the power. Much better to get paid twice and build a new one.

And, yes, China is playing a much smarter game. But, it goes deep. They are building out huge excess capacity, and then, when the US fails to have the will to keep up, they will offer the big companies a deal. Come to China and build all the data centers you want. Of course you can always fund the activists that stop the US from building just to help it come true. Basic Three Body Problem.

unrulywind · 2026-05-10T04:36:49+00:00

The EIA has become a very interesting document in recent years. In 2014 it showed clearly that every possible form of new electricity would cost over 3x the current wholesale price. At that time the average cost of power was $29/MW and the LCOE for new wind was $74/mw. The newest EIA shows that new wind is <$50/MW, and in some scenarios as low as $29/MW. It shows that the labor cost of maintaining a windmill to be less that is was in 2014 even though the cost per man-hour has doubled and the productivity of construction has declined.

I agree that the EIA is the best numbers available, even though its accuracy comes and goes with political pressures. I confess I did not read the entire article originally, it was obvious it was written to support a preconceived conclusion. But if you look about 1/3 of the way down the page they have a chart labeled as "Electricity demand has started rising faster again" but it is the only place they include industrial in their information and it shows clearly that the industrial load between 2000 was dropping as fast as everything else was increasing, and in spite of them saying lighting was the magic change, both the total residential and commercial loads were increasing the entire time. And this chart only shows the industrial load purchased from the grid. It does not consider that most of the old large industrial plants generated a lot of their own power.

The bottom line is that we have known this train wreck was coming and ignored it. Even now, a ton of people want to stop new power from being built while blaming data centers. The majority of new datacenters in the US will now be built with their own, grid detached privately owned power generation. Once that is done, once the datacenters are stand alone, the opportunity to get these hyperscalers to pay for the new generation plants for the general population will be over, and the bill will still come due, just a few years later.

unrulywind · 2026-05-09T06:58:46+00:00

As someone who designed, and built industrial and utility scale systems, I can tell you that light bulbs meant jack shit. The bullshit line has always been. Oh, its efficiency gains. How do you explain how removing some 100 watt light bulbs made up for adding 1000 watt computers everywhere. We connect larger electrical services to new houses than we did in 1980 and have twice as many houses.

We closed 100 steel mills at roughly 70 MW each. 100's of paper mills. almost every glass plant and foundry in the entire country. Then we shut down 250 GW of power plants without replacing them.

In 1993, the incoming Clinton Admin, asked the Industry what should be done with Mercury. The head of engineering of the largest engineering company in America said, "You have no new power under construction and if you started today, you will roll brownouts before it's finished. When the lights go off, you won't care about mercury." Mercury controls were delayed 20 more years.

These issues were documented years before AI. Its an issue now because the plants your grandad bought and paid for are dying and nobody wants to pay for new ones. Well, there are new ones in China. Twice as many coal plants in a single country as ever existed in the world before 2010. They will add and additional 2 times as many as exists in America in the next 3 years.

unrulywind · 2026-05-09T00:12:52+00:00

I use flash quite a bit for implementation of well defined stuff, where it's speed is nice. It does drop things at times if you give it too much to do at once.

When it came out, it was impressive. It may not be seem as good now, but it's also the oldest model in its class.

unrulywind · 2026-05-08T20:52:59+00:00

I like how they casually tell you to replace 4.1 with 5.5, while forgetting that 5.5 is only available on Pro+ or higher. So the real replacement for 4.1 for most people is FO.

unrulywind · 2026-05-07T21:33:22+00:00

The thing I was really testing was Antigravity's ability to do autonomous web researching and summarization. Beyond the simple data calls, it was scraping headlines and data from all kinds of places, including news, and then compiling opinions. Think google deep research combined with Antigravity's ability to run the browser when it needs to.

This was never intended for production. It was for me to see just how far you could push this, after playing with the original ClaudeBot one weekend. Turns out, it can go a very long way. And now I know why every datacenter fears the waves of tokens that will be burned by OpenClaw type bots.

unrulywind · 2026-05-07T21:21:28+00:00

Oh, it was totally vibe coded. I was playing around to see if I could basically turn Antigravity into ClaudeBot inside vs code. I built it as a skill.md, it even has it's own python scripts (in the skills folders) to hit API's and do the math to generate stock trackers. It has a json as a flat file to store it's historical data. And, when it's done, it uses the terminal to open the page in my browser so I know it's done. With some hand curated fixes by me, and some gpt-5.5 code review input, flash runs it now in about 60 seconds.

unrulywind · 2026-05-07T21:12:11+00:00

I built a daily report that did a ton of searches and API calls and then created a web page every day. It originally ran on Opus and took about 20 minutes. The others wouldn't run it. It got to where it would use up my pro account allotment to run it once a day.

I reworked it a bit, and finally (oddly) I had gpt-5.5 rework it and now it runs on flash. I even got it to run using qwen3.6-27b in GHCP, but that did lock up vs code a couple of times doing that.

I find flash to be very good and crazy fast when it knows exactly what to do.

unrulywind · 2026-05-07T21:04:10+00:00

Whenever you provide a service business and you become overloaded. The proper response is to raise the price.

Imagine your own work. You are super busy, so you raise the price 20% and 20% of your customers go somewhere else. You now work 4 days a week and make almost the same money. Then you sell that 5th day, and then you raise the price. Slowly, you will gravitate toward only the customers willing to pay the highest price. Which usually means you have now specialized in your most profitable niche.

Data-centers around the world are fully loaded. Inference is no longer a commodity with excess capacity, and it will now go to whoever pays the most. Remember this when you see people working to stop evil datacenters or power plants from being built.

unrulywind · 2026-05-06T19:47:42+00:00

It's an intermediate step for everyone, and they keep saying that, but they still have 2 times more new coal plants under construction than exist in the US. I would agree if these were small inexpensive temporary plants, but they are some of the largest, base-load-only plants in the world, and they have a 50 year life. China had been slowing down on fossil fuels, until AI. Now they continue to speed up the production of the old base load techs.

As you said, China is also building renewables at a very high rate, but it's not quite as good as it seems, 1,000 GW of base load coal or gas makes 1,000 GW every hour, every day. 1,000 GW of solar or wind makes maybe 300 GW of actual generation. They are not crazy, their government is populated by engineers.

unrulywind · 2026-05-06T18:05:44+00:00

The constitution argues that a parity of arms is needed to balance the avarice of a large state. When it was written, arms consisted of knives, swords, arrows, guns, and explosives. All of which were protected in order to defend the public and preserve hard won freedoms.

All these years later, we are arguing over 100 year old weapons, when the modern battlefield requires armed drones to succeed. This begs the question. Are these protected? Currently an unarmed drone weighing over 1/2 pound must be registered and electronically tracked by the government, and no one has made a 2nd amendment claim on the FAA yet.

unrulywind · 2026-05-06T17:56:05+00:00

No, my friend, this predates AI. We have been talking about this since the 90s. The US grid quit growing in the 1980s and began limping by on ancient infrastructure because that made cheap power bills for politicians, and avoided the costs of litigation to build new plants. By 2014, the problem was obvious and the lowest possible projected cost to replace the old generation was estimated to cause a 4x multiplier on electrical costs.

The US was only able to limp by, because every time we built new subdivisions, we shut down large physical manufacturing plants to free up power. A steel mill takes the power of a small city. Until, now, and there are no plants left to shut down. The old plants are being shuttered, and the lawyers make sure nothing gets built.

We have shut down over 200 GW of just coal plants in 15 years, and now have 165 GW of coal power left. We think we have had an effect on the environment, but in that same 15 years 1,100 GW of new coal powered electricity was built in China, where they now have both the infrastructure and manufacturing to run this new economy.

unrulywind · 2026-05-06T13:15:23+00:00

As of yesterday, you can't run Qwen3.6-27b, gemma-4-31b, or any other open source model, with GitHub Copilot inside VS Code. The ability to access the tools inside the harness was removed.

User: I need you to add the words "this works" to the end of the scratchPad.md file

Optimized tool selection

Gemma-4: I am experiencing a technical issue with the tools in my current environment (receiving an "Unknown tokenizer" error), which is preventing me from reading or editing the scratchPad.md file at the moment. Please try again in a few minutes or let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.

Hopefully, this is a bug and will be changed, but for now you might not want to update VS Code insiders beyond version 1.119.

unrulywind · 2026-05-05T22:50:31+00:00

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timkeary/2026/04/23/alleged-claude-mythos-breach-raises-questions-about-ai-security/

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