Which make me raise a question. Why would I install a close source black box, that will send data to a country that you can't make legally liable for even most crazy miss doings.

The market of a hosted commercial version of glm is very weird. yeah you can deploy an open source version or run it locally, sure. This.... hm, i don't know why any company would take any risks to use GLM

If you're already used to your TUI coding agent, you don't need the desktop agent. Although it is nice that it is there for folks who prefer the Codex App/Claude App UI approach.

That said, it's interesting that they're releasing a bunch of stuff: ZCode, OCR.z.ai, Image.z.ai, Audio.z.ai, AutoClaw and some other stuff that https://chat.z.ai/ links to. That's a lot of stuff for one org to pull off.

Figured I'd try out their Pro coding plan, seems like it doesn't necessarily give me that much quota than Opus (at least given how many tokens are needed for accomplishing a certain task), but GLM 5.2 in of itself seems like a beefier Sonnet model, pretty good.

I guess the base is whatever the profit margin needs to be this month.

[1]: https://zcode.z.ai/en#:~:text=Base%20usage%20allowance%20inc...

[2]: https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16275805?hl=en#:~:t...

I'm wanting local context in the spirit of "here are 3 AI providers available, for coding tasks use this one... and for writing prose use this one... and for generating images use this one..." etc.

China have a history of stealing IPs/trade secrets and Chinese court favored its own local companies. while US have a robust court that can enforce IPs. if you want to risk your company's IPs/trade secrets/data for some cheap token. Go ahead and use Z.ai's services.

It is essentially a black box with full user permissions, meaning you are just handing over your entire system to a Chinese-owned server. With OpenCode and its GLM provider, at least I can monitor which files were read, which were edited, and what commands were executed.

Not to mention that Chinese national security laws legally obligate companies to cooperate with state intelligence and counter-espionage efforts [0]. If you have this installed on a corporate workstation, and your company is large enough, the possibility of them spying on you is not just a risk—it's almost a certainty.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Law_of_t...

   For GLM Coding Plan subscribers, quota consumed via Coding Plan for GLM-5.2 in ZCode is discounted by the coefficients below — the same usage draws down less quota, roughly 1.5x the effective allowance.
   
   Peak hours (14:00–18:00 daily)  3x -> 2x
   Off-peak (remaining 20 hours)   1x -> 0.67x

Here's the message: "Cannot connect to API: write EPIPE"

(If this comment is too formal, I'm sorry. I used Google Translate to it [this line was NOT translated])

And most of the advancement and experimentation happens in some random 0-star github repos.

Do they really correspond roughly? Seems like they’re trying to suggest a discount while still being worth a significant amount of monthly spend.

It does have a 1.5x usage promotion for GLM 5.2 on the coding plan so now is a good time to test it...

- https://igorwarzocha.github.io/howcode/

- https://github.com/ruuxi/stella

- https://www.pi-gui.com/

Not using Pi, but based on PI (no extensions possible)

- https://twotimespi.dev/

But it already works really well with existing harnesses, I'm not sure why a dedicated one is needed?

I use it with https://swival.dev and everything works perfectly, no tool calling issues and it works fine with long sessions.

[0]: https://zcode.z.ai/cn