Profession: solo digital entrepreneur
Digital businesses from scratch: the journey, the challenges and what worked
Not a victory diary: it is the map of the stretches already walked, with the holes marked. Every article starts from a real problem — the error that showed up, the decision that unblocked it, what stayed behind as a trap for later.
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OpenWork engine v2 switches back by itself: the Den policy forces the migration, and the real ceiling is 0.18.58
The chat sits on engine v1, auto-updates are off, and v2 comes back anyway: a remote engine policy from the Den is polled every 60 s, and the app version decides whether it obeys. The version cut and the 0.18.58 ceiling.
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The squeeze on free models: new OpenCode/OpenWork Zen limits from October 23, 2026
"The free starter model is busy right now" is a disguised quota 429. Why the flood of reports starts on Oct 23, how the per-IP daily bucket works (and why it does not roll over at your local midnight), and why this time there is no local workaround.
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OpenWork 0.18.60+ Broke OpenCode Free Models & Session Archiving: Root Cause, Bundle Analysis, and the 0.18.59 + Engine v1 Rollback
Why switching back to engine v1 on OpenWork 0.18.60+ does not restore OpenCode Zen or custom providers, how the three-layer provider filter works in the desktop runtime, the step-by-step rollback to 0.18.59 + v1, and three post-rollback pitfalls.