u/nickchomey

I've been noticing something strange. I dont know if it is related to popos at all. When I use VS Code Copilot Chat for a long time, I notice that it will eventually get extremely slow. In particular, i notice that the Swap is getting large even when there's plenty of RAM left available.

I know popos uses zram for swap, which does some sort of compression stuff.

When I close vscode, ram and swap drop considerably, and then when i re-open and continue where I left off, performance is normal again.

Anyone have any ideas?

I'm not sure how phase 1 of Operation Cheepseek was implemented (seems that they're using some other providers, rather than DS itself), but it simply doesnt work. I just burned $3 of tokens with DS V4 Flash in 30 minutes across just a few prompts, because evidently there's no caching happening. I can see in my usage dashboard that each subrequest from the harness is something like $0.05-$0.10, rather than $0.0005, as normal.

My subscription is now at 93% monthly usage, so I dont see why I wouldn't just use DS API directly once it runs out...

Edit: folks are saying cache is fine for them. I created a new session and it is doing ok so far. It could be that I just had a one-off bug that turned out to be particularly expensive... Shame that I didnt notice it sooner.

I'm trying to research particularly bad patterns related to "engagement", permissions overreach, etc... I typically wipe sites that abuse these platform capabilities from my memory as soon as I come across them, so can't think of any particularly bad ones to inspect.

I'd appreciate if you share links to some particularly egregious offenders.

I purchased WP Shifty a year ago while testing various site optimization plugins, was immediately dissatisfied with it, and requested a refund. It took 10 days for them to do so, but finally did.

Now one year later they've charged me for another year and are not responding to my emails.

I am now going through the hassle of a credit card chargeback.

I purchased WP Shifty a year ago while testing various site optimization plugins, was immediately dissatisfied with it, and requested a refund. It took 10 days for them to do so, but finally did.

Now one year later they've charged me for another year and are not responding to my emails.

I am now going through the hassle of a credit card chargeback.

I like vscode ghcp interface, but am now exploring alternatives. Codex and Claude still have favorable pricing - how does third party agents work? Might it be possible to get a $20 codex plan and use it via vscode ghcp chat extension? ​