OpenCode + LLM to create a 1:1 Settlers of Catan clone. Guess which model I did it with!
Hey all!
I've been waiting to make this post until I was completely done with the game so I can have a live preview, but this weekend is going to be pretty busy for me and I'm getting antsy to share what I've been working on with you!
I've been working on a 1:1 recreation of my favorite board game, Settlers of Catan. I challenged myself to do this with OpenCode and a local AI model.
I'm lucky to have an AI machine with two 2 RTX 3090's (used to be 3, RIP the last card), 1 P40, and 128GB of
OpenAI is hosting a livestream event. Details about the specific announcements, product launches, or demonstrations will be revealed during the broadcast.
The last time OpenAI did an unannounced livestream, they dropped GPT-4 Turbo and changed pricing overnight
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ChatGPT Images 2.0
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The "just wait 6 months" argument from 2025 survived exactly one iteration
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It's April 2026 now and worth checking how that held up.
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Mistral Medium 3.5 on AMD Strix Halo: Painfully Slow (Plan for Overnight Runs)
Someone actually tested Mistral Medium 3.5 on AMD's new Strix Halo chip, and the results are... not great. For a 48k-token prompt with 4k thinking tokens, it took about 2 hours just to get an answer about code architecture. Yeah, you read that right—two hours. The takeaway: if you want to run this locally on Strix Halo, queue it up before bed. The technical setup involved heavy optimization (Q5_K_XL quantization, GPU acceleration with -ngl 999, cache reuse), but even with all that tuning, it's still a crawl. Not exactly the "instant local AI" dream, but hey, at least it works.