It's not even funny any more. Chinese model, Chinese vendor, Chinese, Chinese... Did I say Chinese? Chinese!
Nobody in his right mind will use a Chinese clone when you have models like Opus 5.5 for peanuts.
Nobody in his right mind will use a Chinese clone when you have models like Opus 5.5 for peanuts.
let a few valley elites decide how humanity can use this technology
open and transparent is the way, China is showing how
there's no money long term in being a token vendor
The biggest revelation from using open weights, because the vendors offer most of them up, is how useful using multiple model families is. Regardless of open or closed, if you are only using one family like Ant or Oai models, you're leaving a lot on the table. A harness like OpenCode will enable you to use different models in one session, or more specifically different subtasks when doing long running teams.
I spin up “offices” for different projects, using a documentation heavy approach with procedures, policies, standards, and processes. Agent onboarding and orientation, etc. I usually have an engineer for each separate part, (one for a simulator to simulate the hardware, one for the user application, one for the data analysis and evaluation tool, one for the firmware on each type of device, one for schematic and board reviews, etc. ) then I’ll have an office manager in charge of policy and issue boards, agent rosters, etc, and a engineering governance agent that makes sure code is compliant and documentation / code is coherent before any merges. 6-15 agents in each office depending on the complexity of the task.
It sounds like open code could be pretty handy but it would nerf my Claude subscription (api!=subscription rates). Understanding my workflow, what models do you think might be suitable for those tasks outside of OAI and Anthropic?
Nobody AMERICAN in his right mind will use... Wait, actually a lot of them will.
But for me, as a non american, non chinese person: I'll use whatever the fuck is the best and cheapest for my task, because that's how fucking Capitalism works.
If that means that a (proclaimed) "communist" country cleans the carpet with the self-proclaimed land of the free: so be it!
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