Zilong Liang・MeshNotes on Apr 25, 2026
Today the Amp team announced their smart mode switched to Opus 4.7. From their observations, Opus 4.7 “follows prompts more closely” than 4.6, and they even removed several tools from smart mode, like grep and glob, since Opus 4.7 “is good enough at using the shell directly”.
Interesting. This kind of design decision used to show up more in the deep mode, which uses GPT models, and in Codex apps directly, since GPT models are better known for their autonomy and shell skills.
What’s more curious, from the other side, is that, in my experience over the past two days, GPT-5.5 has felt more like Claude in its phrasing: more human, less jargon, and no more “Would you like me to…” follow-up questions.
Are GPT and Claude converging to some extent?
I just removed note types entirely from both Hack and Muse. Old /notes/types/... URLs now redirect to /notes. After consolidating note types from 6 to 4 yesterday, momentum carried me here.
Here’s the thing. Every time I drafted a note, I had to spend mental effort deciding which type it should belong to. It became friction instead of helping me write better. More importantly, I found the timeline still reads well without a type to frame each note. The note can describe itself.
I bet it’s the right choice. If something gets in the way of writing, eliminate it. Curiously, I didn’t hesitate. Since we have AI agents now, both adding and removing features are easy. If I come up with a better taxonomy, I’ll add one.
Update Apr 27, 2026: I renamed the English site again — Hack is now Mesh at https://mesh.zlliang.me. The previous hack.zlliang.me redirects to the new domain. See: Renamed Hack to Mesh.