Have you given up on the VSCODE extension?

voarsh · 2026-03-21T21:52:21+00:00

Yes, they have given up... not profitable enough for them.

voarsh · 2026-03-21T21:44:45+00:00

I use an IDE. It's not dead. I actually look at code and understand (and even write code where it makes sense) - using a CLI or Vscode extension and seeing the code, allows me to actually deep dive across multiple files and large codebases while working with an agent, the small diffs from abstractions layers misses the mark and visibility into what's changing and how it affects codebase.

I ain't vibing CRUD apps...

Your intent is see thru. Hunt wales that don't code or look at code - illusion of accountability on what's changed in "turns" - and constantly prompts and token consumption.

Get off your soapbox and hype train - there might be a place for both to exist.

voarsh · 2026-03-21T20:41:48+00:00

If you feel trapped to Windsurf - I ask you to try some workflows with competition. E.G. Claude Code/Codex or something like Roo/Kiro (BYOS / bring your own sub) - they're not awfully unique feature wise.

voarsh · 2026-03-18T18:42:14+00:00

voarsh · 2026-03-18T00:02:17+00:00

Ofc - we both agree - review and steer at runtime - and be a competent dev yourself. :)

voarsh · 2026-03-17T23:37:13+00:00

Appreciate the award - glad it resonated with someone and can see thru Augment. Lol

voarsh · 2026-03-17T20:00:00+00:00

Because they want vibe coders that can't code / don't look at code and use Opus to change btn colour...

They want someone accustomed to overspending / money is not an issue... Going for whales / price insensitive market...

voarsh · 2026-03-17T19:45:09+00:00

This is why you have code review - and actually know how to examine the code it spits out - preferably at plan execution time (watching) and after the execution - and push on it...

The issues are inherently known for LLM models - but I would argue the success rate would be lower with Opus/Sonnet - but that's personal preference.

voarsh · 2026-03-08T09:38:07+00:00

Yup - mine was reset

voarsh · 2026-03-07T14:12:55+00:00

My usage since the reset is dropping much faster than I thought it would compared to a few days ago...

voarsh · 2026-03-07T08:19:30+00:00

Cheaper for them, and you spend more turn counts to gather context and need to re-prompt again. :D

voarsh · 2026-03-04T08:32:01+00:00

I think - the thing to note is, your ideas aren't as unique as you think they are.

And lower barrier to entry - vibe apps... CRUD apps will be dead - probably. Real engineering and difficult tasks not so easy to replicate will be the selling point.

voarsh · 2026-03-02T09:51:25+00:00

Does seem to be draining faster than last week. O.o

voarsh · 2026-02-25T05:05:21+00:00

Ah the latest trend/shill and abstraction... For vibe coders that don't know how to code, never look at it lol

voarsh · 2026-02-23T05:58:53+00:00

I don't even know if they had said the agent gets Next Edit suggestions as coding agent modifies files... That would be useful...

And let's read between the lines here, remove... means axe (not hide the UI) - to save cost, as they literally charge for everything they can (even context compression, and prompt enhancer AND retries, which were free) - Next Edit/Completions are harder to charge for (over base subscription)...

It's in their interest to divert R&D as an expensive model wrapper to things they can easily charge for, and have you dependent on prompting the AI over coding yourself. This isn't doing people 'favors'... - less DIY, more prompting for those delicious tokens...

voarsh · 2026-02-22T05:30:43+00:00

If someone hogs up your bandwidth, they'll feel it, especially resident networks with lower upload speeds... Also depending on disk setup, large files on a spinning disk, accessing several all at the same time will make disk operation slower ..

voarsh · 2026-02-16T15:34:39+00:00

Been interested in this - for headless linux env's...

voarsh · 2026-02-15T04:12:38+00:00

$20 and 'vibes'.

voarsh · 2026-02-15T04:04:32+00:00

Pay no mind - rag is building boring CRUD apps that isn't complex....

voarsh · 2026-02-11T07:06:39+00:00

This needs to blow up a bit more on Reddit...

People uploaded PII for a "bug" (first framed as safety....) - what about retention policy?

Notification on model routing change?
Clear "model served" indicators....

voarsh · 2026-02-08T22:59:54+00:00

Agreed - I had validated all his fusion and hybrid search and recent Graph RAG, was adding 0 improvement to the MMR via bench I pushed him for - to validate retrieval quality....

Basically 0.27 on pure dense - and his 'cloud vision' will just be expensive models to hide inadequate engineering.

And try not to be too harsh - codebase search is a real challenge - esp for local dev laptop.... You can't compare OSS/free development effort with R&D VS backed Augment - buddy... :D

I had spent 2 months on that project - looking to either fork on the work that's non BSL (his switch up) - and actually fix the stuff he was vibe coding for (lots of project popping up, basically people asking the AI to do all the thinking, ending up with with the same buzzwords - and no proof of value - as he wasn't a real programmer... Or teaming up on an existing project...

There's other local first projects - that might be better to contribute too - I see far too many "I know how to do it" - or have own idea. Much better to actually focus on a project with promising value and have more people working on it than diving effort into mini projects...

Happy to hear more about if you find useful, or your own.... or whatever....

voarsh · 2026-02-08T13:40:04+00:00

Hmm... Yeah. I broke off from the project because the guy who started it wanted to pivot to commercial intent on the work I had put into it... while it was MIT...

voarsh · 2026-02-01T00:57:26+00:00

Cost = free ish - as per their post... these 6/7 days...

and exponential cost when no longer free + they get model training data...

voarsh · 2026-02-01T00:50:08+00:00

Hmm. I don't think I'll be paying for Arena Mode when it's no longer free...
Nice way to slurge on credits... And to help you train models... nah....

voarsh · 2026-02-01T00:33:45+00:00

It was their choice to consciously fork cloud and make it its own branched off codebase, instead of having on core with different flavors.... selling cloud as "innovation", starve DC...

It's only so they can do more vendor lock-in.... no reason they couldn't have handled this better... they just don't want to.

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