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OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
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#372Earlier quoted context omitted.
> they're constantly releasing at an extremely high cadence, where they don't even spend the time to test or fix things Tbf, this seems exactly like Claude Code, they are releasing about one new version per day, sometimes even multiple per day. It’s a bit annoying constantly getting those messages saying to upgrade cc to the latest version
Oh wow. I got multiple messages in a day and just assumed it was a cache bug. It's annoying how I always get that "claude code has a native installer xyz please upgrade" message
I think it goes away if you actually use the native installer ...
Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#373Since this is blowing up, gonna plug my opencode/claude-code plugin that allows you to annotate LLMs plans like a Google doc with strikethroughs, comments, etc. and loop with your agent until you're happy with the plan.
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#374OpenCode was the first open source agent I used, and my main workhorse after experimenting briefly with Claude Code and realizing the potential of agentic coding. Due to that, and because it's a popular an open source alternative, I want to be able to recommend it and be enthusiastic about it. The problem for me is that the development practices of the people that are working on it are suboptimal at best; they're con…
> and (partly as a result) it's fairly resource inefficient (often uses 1GB of RAM or more. For a TUI).
That's (one of the reasons) why I'm favoring Codex over Claude Code.
Claude Code is an... Electron app (for a TUI? WTH?) and Codex is Rust. The difference is tangible: the former feels sluggish and does some odd redrawing when the terminal size changes, while the latter definitely feels more snappy to me (leaving aside that GPT's responses also seem more concise). At some point, I had both chewing concurrently on the same machine and same project, and Claude Code was using multiple GBs of RAM and 100% CPU whereas Codex was happy with 80 MB and 6%.
Performance _is_ a feature and I'm afraid the amounts of code AI produces without supervision lead to an amount of bloat we haven't seen before...
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#375Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#376Interesting timing — I've been building on Cloudflare Workers
with edge-first constraints, and the resource footprint of most
AI coding tools is striking by comparison. A TypeScript agent
that uses 1GB+ RAM for a TUI feels like the wrong abstraction.
The edge computing model forces you to think differently about
state, memory, and execution — maybe that's where lighter
agentic tools will emerge.
Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#377Question: How do we use Agents to Schedule and Orchestrate Farming and Agricultural production, or Manufacturing assembly machines, or Train rail transportation, or mineral and energy deposit discovery and extraction or interplanetary terraforming and mining, or nuclear reactor modulation, or water desalination automation, or plutonium electric fuel cell production with a 24,000 year half-life radiation decay, or interplanetary colonization, or physics equation creation and solving for faster-than-light travel?
- With love The Official Pink Eye #ThereIsNoOther
Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#378OpenCode was the first open source agent I used, and my main workhorse after experimenting briefly with Claude Code and realizing the potential of agentic coding. Due to that, and because it's a popular an open source alternative, I want to be able to recommend it and be enthusiastic about it. The problem for me is that the development practices of the people that are working on it are suboptimal at best; they're con…
> and (partly as a result) it's fairly resource inefficient (often uses 1GB of RAM or more. For a TUI). That's (one of the reasons) why I'm favoring Codex over Claude Code. Claude Code is an... Electron app (for a TUI? WTH?) and Codex is Rust. The difference is tangible: the former feels sluggish and does some odd redrawing when the terminal size changes, while the latter definitely feels more snappy to me (leaving a…
Totally agree. I'm baffled by those who don't clearly see that Codex works better than C.C. in many ways.
Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#379I've been using opencode for a few months and really like it, both from a UX and a results perspective.
It started getting increasingly flaky with Anthropic's API recently, so I switched back to Claude Code for a couple of days. Oh my, what a night and day difference. Tokens, MCP use, everything.
For anyone reading at OpenAI, your support for OpenCode is the reason I now pay you 200 bucks a month instead.
Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#380Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're still in the very early days of generative AI, and people and markets are already prioritizing quality over quantity. Quantity is irrelevant when it comes value. All code is not fungible, "irreverent code that kinda looks okay at first glance" might be a commodity, but well-tested, well-designed and well-understood code is what's valuable.
Generative what? Code is not a thing anymore, in fact it never really was, but now it's definitely not. Code today can be as verbose and ugly as ever, because from here on out, fewer people are going to read it, understand and care about it. What's valuable, and you know this I think, is how much money your software will sell for, not how fine and polished your code is. Code was a liability. Today it's a liability th…
I'm of the opinion that the diligence of experts is part of what makes code valuable assets, and that the market does an alright job of eventually differentiating between reliable products/brands and operations that are just winging it with AI[1].
[1] https://museumoffailure.com/exhibition/wonka-chocolate-exper...