Coding agent

Opencode CEO: Blocked, 20X Growth in 6 Months, Building the Coding Agent for the World

Opencode CEO: Blocked, 20X Growth in 6 Months, Building the Coding Agent for the World

Jay V, founder and CEO of Opencode, shares insights into the explosive growth of his platform, an open-source alternative to proprietary coding agents. He details Opencode's journey to 13 million monthly active users and 7 trillion tokens processed daily, attributing its rapid rise partly to an unexpected controversy with Anthropic and the maturing open-source model ecosystem. The discussion delves into global user adoption, the economic shift in AI token consumption, and how Opencode's strategic product design, rooted in 16 years of entrepreneurial persistence, positions it as a critical marketplace for diverse AI models, serving both individual developers and Fortune 500 companies.

Building an ACP-Compatible Agent Live — Bennet Fenner, Zed

Building an ACP-Compatible Agent Live — Bennet Fenner, Zed

This session explores building an AI coding agent that integrates with the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), Zed's open-source JSON RPC-based standard for agent-client communication. It covers essential architectural elements, including protocol design, session lifecycle management, real-time streaming of model output via session updates, and sophisticated handling of tool calls, such as proxied file system operations and self-modifying code for new capabilities like a terminal tool.