I have the similar ThinkPad like the author, except Gen 3, I7, 16Gb. Have Omarchy on it, works like a charm, even camera is not bad. Battery works but I can plug it in the same dock my macbook is (two usb-c dock).
While you can change keyboard or battery on your Thinkpad, they are cheap enough, around $500 that you can just get a new one. I get why he wanted Framework, they say 13" are much better and more useful deal then 16".
I wish Framework 12" is better, but it is not. Maybe Apple can dazzle us at this form factor.
A lot of people are swear by Cerebras, it seems to really speed up their work. I would love to experience that but at the moment I have overabundance of AI at my disposal, signing up for another service would be too much :)
But yeah it seems that Cerebras is a secret of success for many
OpenCode had this for a while and overall has better and nicer TUI. Having said that, for same models, especially with LSP, some fancy MCPs, mgrep, has been doing really bad job lately for me. Not sure why. I expect it will be resolved soon.
Otherwise very happy with it.
Claude Code is also solid and this is welcome improvement.
I've been using Z.Ai coding plan for last few months, generally very pleasant experience. I think with GLM-4.6 they had some issues which this corrects.
Overall solid offering, they have MCP you plug into ClaudeCode or OpenCode and it just works.
I'm surprised by this; I have it also and was running through OpenCode but I gave up and moved back to Claude Code. I was not able to get it to generate any useful code for me.
How did you manage to use it? I am wondering if maybe I was using it incorrectly, or needed to include different context to get something useful out of it.
I've been using it for the last couple months. In many cases, it was superior to Gemini 3 Pro. One thing about Claude Code, it delegates certain tasks to glm-4.5 air and that drops performance a ton. What I did is set the default models to 4.6 (now 4.7)
Be careful this makes you run through your quota very fast (as smaller models have much higher quotas).
It is very easy to open multiple terminals, have them side by side, do different things. It is more natural to invoke agents and let them do their things.
From my perspective, Firefox, a while back, just stopped working on issues that matter. They got into politics, they tried to do everything, but not as good.
If they just focused to produce a good browser, they would be way ahead. And time when you could get $100Ms from Google are slowly coming to an end. Money attracts grifters and this is what brought them down from my perspective.
Now, just to be honest, I wish they find a way. We always could use alternatives. Just don't expect this alternative to come from Mozilla.
I am installing it now. Thank you Matz and team.
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