Opencode killed the $5 first-month promo on its Go plan. First month is $10 flat now. Their cost pressure must be real — they also just dropped the free DS-V4-Flash-Free model.
Opencode killed the $5 first-month promo on its Go plan
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meta/muse-spark-1.2-contributor is free to use.opencode's free
tier also has meta/muse-spark-1.2-contributor, but that model's server is flaky, so I use hy-3 as my subagent model most of the time. Also, the opencode free models on 9router don't auto-show in pi. You can only nest the oc free model via the composite form, and that combo caps at 128K context unless you hand-write the config. So I built a pi extension: set /9router with your address and key, and it auto-detects every model on 9router, including the oc free ones. pi install npm:@haoyiyin/9router
muse-spark-1.2-contributor seems really bad at following Chinese
prompts? Compared notes with a few people, same impression across the board. It keeps misreading what you ask in Chinese. Some say Meta is quietly nerfing the version it serves Chinese users. Maybe. I think the model's just weak in Chinese.
Claude appeal rejected.
Won't refund the subscription either. I'm half convinced the appeal email is itself phishing, because I'm pretty sure they log the IP. DHH came to Shenzhen recently and showed how he uses Claude Code over there. That's the safest way now, honestly: run Claude Code on an overseas machine, connect through Tailscale, never use it locally. So I need to rent an overseas box with a residential IP, and register and log into Claude there.
Sharing my current mobile only workflow.
Until late September it was the usual setup: parked in front of my laptop, terminal open, bossing pi around, fanning out subagents, then eyeballing diffs myself and filing the PR. Glued to the chair all day, every day. Late September I moved the whole thing to my phone, Hermes runs the show, pi takes the orders. My back is very grateful. Three weeks in, still no regrets. Stack: Hermes on flagship brains (gpt-6-astra / opus-5.5), pi on mid-tier (ds-v4.1-flash / sonnet / terra) with as few plugins as possible, the two talking over a2a. Hermes reads the issues, slices them into small tasks, spins up a worktree for each one, and dispatches a pi into it. When a pi finishes it pings Hermes, who decides: ship the PR or bounce it back for rework. I get back from a full day of being a tourist, or just wake up, and a dozen PRs are sitting there done. Pretty sweet. The catch is how black-box the whole thing is. My emotional arc has been a rerun of early vibe coding, except back then I at least read the diffs. Now even that goes to a flagship model. Boxes all the way down. If you don't have data anxiety, grok-bot and chatgpt-dot basically ship this out of the box, grok-cli and codex built in, native agent-to-agent comms. Downside: your code lives on their servers, everything's moderated, and one ban takes it all with it.
