nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-NVFP4 · Hugging Face will likely be the first large model on the ASUS Ascent GX10｜｜ASUS Deutschland because it was trained optimized on NVFP4 - and thus does not experience any "dumbing down" due to quantization, but functions completely normally as expected. And it is optimized for agentic workflows, which should benefit OpenClaw, just as the 1M context, which can probably even be utilized in the model (different architecture than classic transformer-based models).
vibecoding
pi.dev is a minimalist harness for agentic coding whose focus is not on features, but on extensibility. The underlying idea is solid: a very simple harness that can be extended through TypeScript plugins, so the harness can adapt to your own workflow and requirements. Maybe I'll take a closer look at it soon.
steveyegge/beads: Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent is a to-do list tool for agents. Essentially a memory system for projects that agents can use to manage themselves (storing tasks and features) and to coordinate more complex workflows where an agent needs to work through a series of issues and resolve them. Tasks can have dependencies, and agents only see the set of tasks that can actually be worked on right now. Interesting for projects where you want to run agents in loops to solve larger tasks.
paperclipai/paperclip: Open-source orchestration for zero-human companies is an approach to orchestrating and managing agents. What's interesting here is that it works with an organization modeled after a company structure and uses means to depict agent communication that could provide good transparency. I haven't tried it yet, but alongside gastown, it's one of the more interesting projects on this topic. The whole field of agent orchestration is still quite new, so there's still a large area of experimentation, but it's exciting to watch.
mistralai/mistral-vibe: Minimal CLI coding agent by Mistral - accompanying the AI Studio - Mistral AI there is also the Vibe coding interface to Devstral as open source. Very nice, because it makes a good pair. Will definitely try it out, even if I will probably rather reach for the powerhouses (Opus 4.6) for larger projects.
AI Studio - Mistral AI - as the situation in the USA becomes a bit more tense again, and simply because one should always check what is happening outside the USA, here is a link to a European alternative to the major US operators. Mistral offers a coding model with Mistral 2 that is not only open weights (i.e., freely available and operable if you have the necessary hardware), but also quite affordable when using Mistral itself. And the performance is slightly above Claude Haiku 4.5, and below Sonnet 4.5, but not by much. So quite usable and my first experiments were not bad. Unfortunately, no vision capability, so not very suitable for experiments with images (and therefore not ideal for my bDS), but still interesting enough to keep an eye on.
OpenCode | The Open-Source AI Coding Agent - an open-source coding agent that could soon outperform Claude Code. Very good in execution and above all provider-agnostic. You can attach any model, even one self-hosted with LM Studio or ollama. If you just want to play around, you can simply download it and get started, even without providing a credit card (then of course with limited tokens, but quite usable for initial experiments. And independent of the major providers (ok, except for their models if you want to use them - and for serious coding, those are unfortunately still necessary). OpenCode also offers its own AI models, which are then billed, but a few models are always freely available and thus offer quite serious experimentation without investment.
Steve Yegge on Vibe Coding
Steve Yegge talks in the interview about the future of programming and the challenges of vibe coding. The author shares his experiences and sees a upheaval comparable to the introduction of high-level languages.
Big Damn Stupid - no, Blogging Desktop Server. Currently my favorite project where I play around with Vibe-Coding and build software with which I can run the blog. But this time with the clear perspective that I won't succumb to bit rot or the complexity spiral again. Simple software with a usable interface for maintaining blog posts, but storage as Markdown files with YAML front matter to be easily stable for the future. Then with sqlite for caching and full-text search and other comfort features and git for synchronizing the blog data, and git-lfs for the images. Feels quite usable right now.