i really hope OpenCode v2 with the Effect internals can ascertain and realize and lock on to being the best extensibility platform, on to having a core that serves not just itself, it's conceits of/as product, but a wider world. a street that wants to "find it's own uses for things".

it feels like there's still a strong layer of "for us" vs "for you" within opencode, that i hope, over time can get chewed away at. plugins to rebuild history, to re-title are just impossible, for example. none of these changes, these freedoms are hard to release. the patches i juggle are easy. but whether or not my agentic software serves as a substrate for my desire, or whether it allows me to augment agency: tis the question.

Dax (opencode lead) has such humble takes, is so forthwith about trying failing trying again on and on. about iterative improvement. and it feels like the guts are so in line to deliver, to allow such freedom now in OpenCode. but i don't see the product (anti-product) alignment, where opencode understands that it's competition isn't cc or codex, which can't and won't ever really compete, but pi, that the competition is to be the putty, to deliver the agency, to be a substrate. really hoping, because i love opencode, and these internals in v2 are sick.

the "devtools must be open sourced" debate comes screaming into the fore on this. it certainly argues similar to the post here: that it is minimalism, it is adaptability, programmability, it is directability that unlocks and unleashes us:

> Imagine the convoluted misery it would be trying to plug that into the VS Code extensions API! Or trying to get it into vimdiff. It would certainly be possible, but the machinery to start pre-processing the commits as soon as they appear would be nigh-on impossible. - https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156111

i don't even fully agree! today more than ever, why not cut a VS Code extension? why not cut some wild coop.nvim async extension that runs whatever subprocesses, talks to whatever system daemon? dream it up and do it; the llm's will cut through the mechanicals. but the core point, about finding software that doesn't obstruct, that accelerates the human agency: it's so Douglas Engelbart. to Augment Agency is so close akin to Augment Intellect, the grand passion for human interest engagement envolvement constructivism fucking-around-and-finding-out. and my how unhindered we can be now. if only our tools/systems/softwares let us be. here's to you, soft software!

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage