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Les Orchard

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Running Recursive's new Flint model in Oh My Pi (OMP) was a looping disaster of telegraphic "caveman speak." But running the exact same user prompt in OpenCode was night-and-day articulate and competent. The contrast sent me digging through session traces and harness prompts—and reconsidering how quickly I'd judged…

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The Verge's web sucks

TL;DR: Did you know that The Verge delivers you to around 20 companies for advertising & tracking purposes? I didn't. That might foul up your web experience a little bit. Maybe we should try something different.

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Grief and the AI split

TL;DR: AI-assisted coding is revealing a split among developers that was always there but invisible when we all worked the same way. I've felt the grief too—but mine resolved differently than I expected, and I think that says something about what kind of developer I've been all along.