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ben8bit

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About ben8bit

Co-founder of Fronteer (fronteer.app), re-working work tools. ben [at] fronteer [dot] app.

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    Comment #49201615

    Really? I've heard so many other people complain about this recently. And maybe it's possible that it's the prompt style even. But interesting that it's not across the board.

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    Comment #49201494

    Haven't tried this yet, but going to soon! I have to wonder what happened at Anthropic. We've cancelled our subscription in favor of OpenCode & Codex. Sol is just so good & OC goes…

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    Comment #49121477

    Honestly, I didn't even know this was a problem that needed to be solved.

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    Comment #49022107

    More and more these companies sound like they want to protect market share, instead of lose it to foreign models. I believe the cat's already out of the bag on this one. Regulatory…

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    Comment #48990084

    I'm surprised by the negative its-a-copy sentiment. Of course it is. Just like Linear/Mailchimp/etc. (almost everything) are copies of other things. These harness+work apps are bec…

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    Comment #48944485

    Probably a good example why you shouldn't outsource creative work to AI.

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    Comment #48939862

    I mean, it's hard not to be impressed by the Moonshot team. Absolutely great work.

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    Comment #48848451

    I'm surprised - weren't they always OSS?

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    Comment #48715843

    Definitely a +1 from me. I've really enjoyed using it via OpenCode/Zen. Not loving the pricing with OC so will probably switch to OpenRouter once my credits are done.

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