> Putting aside GitHub’s relationship with ICE, it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining losers eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress.
This says more about the author than anything else.
That they don't support a nationalistic paramilitary organization that requires its members to be masked and never known by the public so they cant be held accountable? A nationalized KKK is not something to ever support.
I don't care about ICE one way or another, but calling people "monkeys" and "losers" because they're not building a product to your exact specifications is extremely childish.
It seems to me that the real "losers" are the ones spending so much time bitching and moaning about a software platform they don't like.
They aren't "bitching and moaning" they are moving communities and platforms. GitHub is user hostile run by a company with a pattern for that. Alternatives to GitHub exist and supporting them is not "bitching and moaning", it's building and creating. The fact you can't or won't recognize that is telling.
The oppositie is also true. "Caring" about ICE and wanting to flood the US with illegal immigrants is also a political position, a privileged one at that. It's a luxury belief: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_belief
Not being an American is a privileged position regarding an issue that negatively affects Americans. It's no different than if I, an American, fail to care about, say, Hungary's slide into autocracy. I am privileged to be able to not care about it.
By that definition, "privileged" looses all meaning, as there is an infinite number of injustices in the universe, and no one is affected by all of them.
For those of us building agentic tools that require similar pricing, how does one implement it? OpenRouter seems good for the MVP, but I'm curious if there are alternatives down the line.
Why not just use only async agents? You can fire off many tasks and check PRs locally when they complete the work. (I also work on devfleet.ai to improve this experience, any feedback is appreciated)
If you organize your folders correctly, you could probably have that dropbox folder synced with one of those services. The maintenance isn't too bad once its up and running, probably more hurdles (proxies, etc) if you are accessing outside the home. If you are the only user, you can use tailscale to access your hosted apps when out of the home.
I find Codex and Claude Code to have different strength/weaknesses and wanted to be able to use them from a single interface. Currently hacking on https://devfleet.ai to make agent management more easy on myself.
Briefly mentioned on the article but async agents really thrive on small and scoped issues. Imagine hooking them up to your feedback tool (eg canny) and automatically having a PR as you review the customer feedback. Now this would likely not work for large asks but for smaller asks, you can just accept the PR and ship it really fast!
The codex model is trained differently than the normal models. It has extra training on how to use cli and I find it to be better at project scope tasks (eg running tests, migrations, etc). Whereas in my experience Claude is the better coding model.
Congrats on the launch. I see that you're charging 5% on Balance Reloads. This pricing model seems to be getting popular across multi-LLM applications. Was curious to know how did you go about implementing it? or are you just passing on the 5% of openrouter
Good eye. A ~5% surcharge on prepaid credits is the standard model right now for most multi-LLM services. We actually do not use OpenRouter internally, so this number is flexible. One thing I'll note is that we try to be as upfront and transparent about our platform fee as possible so that no one is surprised.
Oh interesting. I've previously looked into implementing it myself but seemed like it would require a lot of effort. I would love to connect and learn more about your implementation. What's the best way to reach out to you? My email is available on my profile.
For someone who wants to do “archon‑mini is a 7B Qwen‑2.5‑VL–based executor (dynamic‑res ViT) fine‑tuned with GRPO for GUI grounding” part at home, is there a guide/post you would recommend?
This says more about the author than anything else.