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  • Qwen coder model from Huggingface, following the instructions there to run it in llama.cpp. Once that’s up: OpenCode and use the custom OpenAI API to connect it.

    You’ll get far better results than trying to use other local options out of the box.

    There may be better models potentially but I’ve found Qwen 2.5 etc to be pretty fantastic overall, and definitely a fine option beside Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini. I’ve tested the lot and it’s usually far more down to instruction and AGENTS.md instructions/layout than it is down to just the model.







  • The author uses their feelings a lot to describe their distaste for MCP. It doesn’t read like a very well informed article should, in my opinion.

    MCP servers are like proxies, that can adapt their represented tools and resources based upon external conditions. They’re far from being static in nature and can provide an entry point for otherwise hidden or secured functionality. Ie. some actions may be provided via an MCP and not otherwise. File resources may be present behind an MCP server and not otherwise. Tools may be relevant for a certain agent and not others, or they may become unavailable.

    That, and regular APIs often don’t expose data in a streaming capacity that LLMs benefit from. That’s why you see MCP servers serving HTTP streams or SSE.

    Static files make this inflexible for what, simplicity?

    At least we have a standard now, for this kind of thing. Static files would be a lazy half-arsed solution at beast.







  • Now it takes four engineers, three frameworks, and a CI/CD pipeline just to change a heading. It’s inordinately complex to simply publish a webpage.

    Huh? I mean I get that compiling a webpage that includes JS may appear more complex than uploading some unchanged HTML/CSS files, but I’d still argue you should use a build system because what you want to write and what is best delivered to browsers is usually 2 different things.

    Said build systems easily make room for JS compilation in the same way you can compile SASS to CSS and say PUG or nunjucks to HTML. You’re serving 2 separate concerns if you at all care about BOTH optimisation and devx.

    Serious old grump or out of the loop vibes in this article.