Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace
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I didn't see it linked from the project; it seems pretty relevant given who he is.
where he describes sending an AI generated email response as "the most polite fuck you to someone that they will never know".
The original email asked him sth like "how many parameters does deepseek v3 have" that "he could have easily searched himself".
https://github.com/pewdiepie-archdaemon/odysseus/commit/0517...
> Sage is a proprietary application. The high-performance inference engine and the agent runtime are Sage's core technology and ship only as compiled binaries — there's no source here. This repository exists to distribute the app and its release notes, nothing more.
Not a fan of this, personally.
TL/DR - "cleaner and more polished" implies no vibe coded slop, and the only reason people start these projects in 2026 is because they're addicted to vibe slop coding.
I don't know if that was a motivation for creating this, but it is a reason some people might choose not to use it.
I think it demonstrates how overuse of LLMs for brainstorming/planning and building destroys creativity. That zeitgeist changes from month to month, but when a vibe coded "AI Native" project gets released you'll always see dozens of people in the replies talking about the identical project they've also built or are working on.
I also notice this in my own work, the people who have most eaten the LLM brainworm will come to me asking for us to build the same projects. They all eventually converge to wanting some sort of power user app (like this) that can just do everything because AI is magic to them and there's no reason why it can't do everything.
I hate Peter Thiel but he has that famous quote form years ago where he says not to build the obvious thing because the obvious thing isn't special, so maybe this has always been a phenomenon.
Like I found a really cool project a few weeks ago that I started using and even made a few QoL changes to. Then I thought of the many other changes I wanted, and that the project was written in a language I'm not familiar with (Rust), and I started a port in what I know well (Python) so that I'll be able to actually review the code if needed and generally make better architectural decisions.
Conifer (launching tomorrow, June 1st) goes the other way on this, properly open source with no branding strings attached, so you can actually fork or rebrand if you need to. Local AI runtime + IDE, native on Mac/Linux/Windows: conifer.build
This project does look fun though.
Stuff like an agent mode, deep research and document work are things you'd be able to have with open-webui as well but Odysseus seems to have them thought out.
https://github.com/pewdiepie-archdaemon/dionysus/blob/dionys...
This project is fun though! And the newest YT comments are very entertaining.
this should be a supporting argument for those who advocate for agentic development for all level of expertise. at the same time, it is interesting to see how the vast majority of the open source work he referred to was from the east (maybe all but couple exceptions like opencode).
Is the person best known for exploiting security vulnerabilities to get into places you'd rather they didn't, and then getting lost and taking forever to get places the ideal namesake for your AI workspace project?
You gotta pick a dude like Sarpedon who just was a swell guy poking holes in greeks with his spear until he gets killed by Patroclus and everyone is sad.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1r186gl/my_agent_...
>Claude steals user's API keys then berates user for poor security practices
>Claude (via the subreddit's automod account) shows up in thread and roasts user again
I've currently host both Open WebUI and Opencode on a server setup and there's multiple things that Open WebUI has implemented very nicely over time but it was also prior to the emergence of coding agents / harnesses. As such, its strengths is more on the `/chat/completions` era and RAG and its own functions and ecosystem setup before tool calls were a thing.
If this stuff works for you already, I think that's fine. That's not a bad thing, and if anything, they've made attempts to improve esp. with the recent backend upgrades and projects like `open-terminal`.
However, Opencode has been built for the coding agent setup since its early days and Odysseus gives me more confidence to run sessions much better knowing that it runs on an Opencode core.
Stuff like MCP support and a clearer lifecycle for example are things I've never really seen implemented well on open-webui (they've improved and support this now, but I'm biased and am salty of the era from its early days of MCP support when they insisted you place a bridge (mcpo) in between just to make it do MCP.). In contrast, opencode does this very well since what they built that works on the terminal also applies to the desktop app and the ACP support for IDEs that use it to connect to the opencode harness.
At the minimum, I expect Opencode to work wonderfully against the frontier models, and all models they host on their Zen and Go service, so that adds some confidence as well on complex workflows.
In contrast, I still find model management a pain in the ass on open-webui (has always relied on LiteLLM or a third-party inference gateway) just to wrangle the models. Hell, they still tag the Responses API "experimental" today, a format that's been around since over last year.
Does that transfer to Odysseus? Maybe, maybe not. Seems it's based on it but a quick check on code says they merely adapted it so maybe it's the latter. I haven't tried it at depth and idk how well Pewds has implemented it, but if it improves on that angle and gets maintainers that accepts contributions from the community, I feel like it'll do nicely.
There's already plenty of pimono / open code webui / electron wrappers
What a world we live in.
but with extra steps
just my 2c
What the hell were you expecting. Your slop will fade in history... his slop will linger for months, maybe a year or two.
Then no one will care or remember about any of this.
Trash.
Pimono or go home
Who are YOU?