and?

Yeah, as I recall it was just codex repackaged, but there is also the aspect of the tooling itself that the model interacts with which they massively fumbled. People will still use codex on its own, but nobody wants to ever use copilot.

Oh that’s the magic of tools like opencode, you run it in a folder and it acts as a harness for the model where it can interact with the filesystem. You could do the same with an IDE as well, making your own agentic harness is actually pretty straight forward. So you could make a plugin that talks to, say, ollama https://ampcode.com/notes/how-to-build-an-agent

I find these kinds of projects are neat, but if I’m being honest, I tend to just keep plain markdown files as well. The only thing I find that’s missing with that is searchability. Once you get enough files, it can get unwieldy. Although, I’ve been playing around with just using a local model lately as the interface. You can throw opencode at a folder with the files, and even a small model can find stuff fairly competently there.

kinda of hilarious that MS has a stake in both of the worst commercial LLM offerings

ooh neat

yeah logseq is great, but does need a bit of upfront investment

yup

I feel very validated :)

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if somebody already has access to your machine, but doesn’t have root privileges

Wait, the implication here is that there are good corporations?

Exactly, taking over a large existing codebase is a herculean task. So, most forks just end up adding superficial changes on top and keeping upstream code as is.

The reality is far more complicated than that. Maintaining a large project takes a lot of work in practice, and you can’t just fork it and expect the fork to magically succeed. There are very few examples of such successful forks in the wild.

And who’s going to develop this fork?

yeah it’s a huge fail all around

Exactly, and people are already doing this stuff incidentally https://github.com/albertan017/LLM4Decompile

I don’t really agree with the attention to detail part from my experience. AI agents love to take shortcuts from what I’ve seen, and you have to pay a lot of attention to what they’re doing to make sure they do the right thing.

It’s not, it is a terminal emulator application for Android that creates a Linux-like environment.

I would imagine so.