Agentic AI Foundation
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9 hours ago
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| block.xyz
| HN
flakiness
8 hours ago
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So I'll focus on the block's contribtution, which is goose: https://github.com/block/goose

Has it gotten better and good enough? I tried it a few months back and it was pretty crappy. And it's not because of bad models (I used it with the latest Claude at that time) but because of poor harness implementation and UI.

Is it worth trying the latest version to see how it compares with Claude Code? I want OSS, model agnostic implementation to win but I felt the odds are off then. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

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clhodapp
1 hour ago
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Open source rarely wins at the start.

Instead, its strength tends to be a continued improvement over the long term, in a way that commercial software just can't sustain because it needs to show a return on investment.

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ewoodrich
2 hours ago
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I use OpenCode as my main CLI tool at this point, falling back to Claude Code and Codex as needed. It's really solid these days, highly recommend.

I use Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro Preview, and GPT 5/5-mini with great results on OC. I initially tried it so I could decouple from VS Code extensions while still using my Github Copilot plan like I had been with Roo Code/Kilo Code, but have branched out to also using it with the Claude Code backend and their free models as they come and go.

Definitely worth trying if you haven't picked it up recently.

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rbren
3 hours ago
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The OpenHands CLI has had some major improvements since v1: https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands

MIT license and model agnostic

I’d also keep a close eye on Toad which is launching this month:

https://willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-toad/

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pzo
6 hours ago
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I did tried as well few months and also uninstalled. Application didn't at least back then have update feature and for each new release you had to reinstall again. UI experience was also very poor comparing to many other open source projects - would expect they at least hire some designer
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maelito
8 hours ago
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Tried Goose, couldn't do anything. OpenCode is better. Mistral's Vibe too.
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eagleinparadise
4 hours ago
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Goose was super jank when I last tried it. Not worth a look
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N_Lens
5 hours ago
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Forgive me for underestimating but I'd never heard of 'Block' before, and the title "Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI Launch the Agentic AI Foundation" reads a bit funny to me. Plus the bitcoin blurb on their site is also worth a chuckle -

"Bitcoin is about access, not speculation. It’s designed to be open, fast, low-cost, and free from centralized control. It’s meant to empower people"

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bdangubic
5 hours ago
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> “Bitcoin is about access, not speculation. It’s designed to be open, fast, low-cost, and free from centralized control. It’s meant to empower people"

This is the most amazing paragraph I think I have ever read, pure gold!

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lrkerhn2
1 hour ago
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Same here. Never heard of them before. But the more you look around on their site, feels more and more like some parody company. They seem to be into everything - bitcoin, blockchain, decentralized this, decentralized that, something called TBD, then Web5 (what even is that?)

https://blog.identity.foundation/block-contributes-to-dif/

https://tbd.website/

This company seems to be mocking itself.

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pests
1 hour ago
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Square renamed themselves to Block. You might have heard of CashApp for example. Their CEO is Jack Dorsey. They have POS terminals and credit card readers.
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lkbm
4 hours ago
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Block is the new name for Square, also of CashApp.
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daveguy
4 hours ago
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Yeah... Still gonna use my credit card or debit card.
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jazzyjackson
32 minutes ago
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Square is likely the POS terminal you've been using your card on. They pioneered those neat headphone jack adaptors that let small businesses use their iPhone to take payment years before tapping phones together was a thing. Not a bad business, made jack Dorsey rich, now he gets to play around with crypto junk
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bigmadshoe
33 minutes ago
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Square is primarily a payment platform so you probably have used your credit or debit card thousands of times with them already.
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jmathai
5 hours ago
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That website reminds me of the one…where a guy sold pixels on a website for like a buck and people basically bought ads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

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PierceJoy
3 hours ago
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The guy who created that page actually went on to found the Calm app, which has a multi billion dollar valuation now.
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N_Lens
4 hours ago
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Yes it does feel a bit grift adjacent.
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matt_daemon
7 hours ago
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Spot the odd one out
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kordlessagain
6 hours ago
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Such irony given Anthropic is hostile to open sourcing their agent frameworks like clause desktop and CLI.
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ChrisArchitect
9 hours ago
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