opencode - After the utterly miserable price hikes by various coding agent providers (Microsoft being the latest with massive increases), it is becoming increasingly important to look at alternatives. OpenCode Go is currently a seriously credible offering, featuring a mix of some quite good models that are also open-weight, allowing them to be operated by more than one provider. It has proven useful for my OpenClaw so far.
Archive April 2026
Dicklesworthstone/pi_agent_rust: High-performance AI coding agent CLI written in Rust with zero unsafe code is a quite interesting project that is a reimplementation of pi.dev in Rust, with a stronger focus on security, but still maintaining Pi's openness — so not thousands of tools and workflows already built into the core, but rather just a minimalist agent.
nearai/ironclaw: IronClaw is an OpenClaw inspired implementation in Rust focused on privacy and security could potentially become interesting at some point. Essentially OpenClaw but in Rust. I ran into a whole series of issues with OpenClaw. OpenAI subscriptions (the $20 per month one) are too small for an agent, the weekly limit fills up too quickly. Switching to cheaper open weight models revealed that OpenClaw really only tests the primary code paths – I ran into all sorts of things that broke that had worked before. On top of that, there have been a whole series of successful supply chain attacks against NPM – clearly NPM's security is more than inadequate. So I deleted the OpenClaw VPS for now. Life is too short for bad software.
stonerl/Thaw: Menu bar manager for macOS 26 - helps against the notch on Apple MacBooks. It's already embarrassing that you need an extra program to do this, and that the system doesn't support it out of the box.