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OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
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Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#342Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Find the alternative magical product whose dev team is able to improve the software blindfolded The choice isn't "telemetry or you're blindfolded", the other options include actually interacting with your userbase. Surveys exist, interviews exist, focus groups exist, fostering communities that you can engage is a thing, etc. For example, I was recruited and paid $500 to spend an hour on a panel discussing what deve…
> Surveys exist, interviews exist, focus groups exist, fostering communities that you can engage is a thing, etc. We all know it’s extremely, extremely hard to interact with your userbase. > For example I was paid $500 an hour +the time to find volunteers doubled that, so for $1000 an hour x 10 user interviews, a free software can have feedback from 0.001% of their users. I dislike telemetry, but it’s a lie to say it…
> We all know it’s extremely, extremely hard to interact with your userbase.
On the contrary, your users will tell you what you need to know, you just have to pay attention.
> I dislike telemetry, but it’s a lie to say it’s optional.
The lie is believing it’s necessary. Software was successful before telemetry was a thing, and tools without telemetry continue to be successful. Plenty of independent developers ship zero telemetry in their products and continue to be successful.
Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#343I wish they would add back support for anthropic max/pro plans via calling the claude cli in -p mode. As I understand thats still very much allowed usage of claude code cli (as you are still using claude cli as it was intended anyway and fixes the issue of cache hits which I believe were the primary reason anthropic sent them the c&d). I love the UX from OpenCode (I loved setting it up in web mode on my home server a…
They had that?! I saw that some people wrote skills and plugins to call claude cli and gemini cli to still be able to use the subscription.
I would also wish that this was supported out of the box, something similar to goose cli providers or acp providers (https://block.github.io/goose/docs/guides/acp-providers).
But I don't want to spend testing yet another agent harness or change the workflow when I somewhat got used to one way of working on things (the churn is real).
Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#344Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The problem for me is that the development practices of the people that are working on it are suboptimal at best; they're constantly releasing at an extremely high cadence, where they don't even spend the time to test or fix things (or even build a proper list of changes for each release), and they add, remove, refine, change, fix, and break features constantly at that accelerated pace. this is what i notice with o…
Openclaw has 20k commits, almost 700k lines of code, and it is only four months old. I feel confident that that sort of code base would have a no coherent architecture at all, and also that no human has a good mental model of how the various subsystems interact. I’m sure we’ll all learn a lot from these early days of agentic coding.
I’m learning that projects, developed with the help of agents, even when developers claim that they review and steer everything, ultimately are not fully understood or owned by the developers, and very soon turns into a thousand reinvented wheels strapped together by tape.
Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#346I wish they would add back support for anthropic max/pro plans via calling the claude cli in -p mode. As I understand thats still very much allowed usage of claude code cli (as you are still using claude cli as it was intended anyway and fixes the issue of cache hits which I believe were the primary reason anthropic sent them the c&d). I love the UX from OpenCode (I loved setting it up in web mode on my home server a…
I guess you could look into my plugin for that use case of CC inside opencode: https://github.com/unixfox/opencode-claude-code-plugin
Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#347The only thing I'm wondering is if they have eval frameworks (for lack of a better word). Their prompts don't seem to have changed for a while and I find greater success after testing and writing my own system prompts + modification to the harness to have the smallest most concise system prompt + dynamic prompt snippets per project. I feel that if you want to build a coding agent / harness the first thing you should…
You can't write your system prompt in opencode, there's no API to override the default anthropic.txt as far as I'm aware.
I considered creating a PR for that, but found that creating new agents instead worked fine for me.
Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#348Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#349I don't use it for coding but as an agent backend. Maybe opencode was thought for coding mainly, but for me, it's incredibly good as an agent, especially when paired with skills, a fastapi server, and opencode go(minimax) is just so much intelligence at an incredibly cheap price. Plus, you can talk to it via channels if you use a claw.
By "agent" you mean what? Coding is mostly "agentic" so I'm bit puzzled.
It's defined in opencode docs, but it's an overall cross industry term for custom system prompt with it's own permissions:
Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am more concerned about their, umm, gallant approach to security. Not only that OpenCode is permissive by default in what it is allowed to do, but that it apparently tries to pull its config from the web (provider-based URL) by default [1]. There is also this open GitHub issue [2], which I find quite concerning (worst case, it's an RCE vulnerability). [1] https://opencode.ai/docs/config/#precedence-order [2] https:…
It also sends all of your prompts to Grok's free tier by default, and the free tier trains on your submitted information, X AI can do whatever they want with that, including building ad profiles, etc. You need to set an explicit "small model" in OpenCode to disable that.
Wait what. For real? I knew their security posture was bad, but this bad??