No wonder agent search results have been garbage lately.

2026-10-19 17:45

No wonder agent search results have been garbage lately. Some websites are now blocking agents. Yelp wants agents to pay for a data license before it lets them in. Delta won't let an agent book a flight for you. JPMorgan and Schwab are locking accounts over "security concerns." I think websites exist to serve people, and supporting agents is just a better way to serve people. Blocking them is going the wrong direction. It's like forcing people to mail a paper letter when live chat is right there. 😮‍💨

OpenCode free models are fully gone now.

Been a long fight. Lots of open source projects have spent months playing cat and mouse with the OpenCode team. Aug: 429 rate limits. Sep 17: 403 FreeTierError on every unofficial client. Oct 17: they started flagging datacenter IPs by ASN. One proxy pool gets tagged, the entire range 403s. As of now, residential IP direct connection or the paid Go plan are the only stable ways to hit OpenCode free models.

2026-10-19

MiniMax showed its hand. Space Bunny is M3.1-Flash.

1M context, video support, $0.15/$0.60 /M. A third the cost of M3, 3x faster. 62.2 on Automation-Bench, beating DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. Official word: open weights Oct 23.

2026-10-19

I stuffed an agent into an Android phone.

You've probably run into those short videos lately where an agent drives a phone around by itself. This one is called Mika, and it's a free open-source project. It's an Android app that works in the background through accessibility mode, so it can use pretty much any other app you have installed. Reply to someone on WeChat, scroll Xiaohongshu, drop something in a cart and check out. It finds the buttons by looking at the screen. There's no API to wire up, and it doesn't care what resolution your phone is. When it reaches a payment step or a captcha it stops and lets you finish. 🔗 github.com/wangzan101/Mika

2026-11-01

My product went profitable, and something in me broke.

Someone on Xiaohongshu posted a while back that she sells phone keyboard skins she made with Codex. Eight, ten yuan a pack. Over a thousand a month. I've been at mine for months. October: a few hundred copies, $1,200 gross. Platform fee 30%, tax 10%, so 60% should have landed. It came to just over a thousand dollars. I still don't know how the math pulled that off. I have an overseas bank account. Once lost $500 to a wire transfer off one. I'd still tell you to take payout through WorldFirst: less hassle, lower fees. You can also get a Hong Kong USD credit card tied to it that spends your WorldFirst balance directly. Digital card is free. Physical is $4. Mainland purchases under ¥200 skip the processing fee, and right now there's 1% cashback.

2026-11-01