I've used it but recently moved back to plain claude code. We use claude at the company and weirdly the experience has become less and less productive using opencode. I'm a bit sad about it as it was the first experience that really clicked and got great results out of. I'm actually curious if Anthropic knows which client is used and if they negatively influence the experience on purpose. It's very difficult to prove because nothing about this is exact science.
OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
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#382Geminis cli is clearly a fork of it btw
It is clearly not. Why would you think so?
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#383OpenCode 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…
I recently listened to this episode from the Claude Code creator (here is the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQU9o_5rHC4 ) and it sounded like their development process was somewhat similar - he said something like their entire codebase has 100% churn every 6 months. But I would assume they have a more professional software delivery process. I would (incorrectly) assume that a product like this would…
I heard from somebody inside Anthropic that it's really two companies, one which are using AI for everything and the other which spends all their time putting out fires.
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#384I'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.
I've been paying OpenAI 200 bucks a month for what feels like forever by now, but used OpenCode for the first time yesterday, been using Codex (and Claude Code from time to time, to see if they've caught up with Codex) since then.
But I don't use MCP, don't need anything complicated, and not sure what OpenCode actually offers on top. The UI is slightly nicer (but oh so much heavier resource usage), both projects source code seems vibecoded and the architecture is held together with hopes and dreams, but in reality, minor difference really.
Also, didn't find a way in OpenCode to do the "Fast Mode" that Codex has available, is that just not possible or am I missing some setting? Not Codex-Spark but the mode that toggles faster inference.
Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#385OpenCode 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…
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#386OpenCode works awesome for me. The BigPickle model is all I want. I do not throw some large work at the agent that requires lot of reasoning, thinking or decision making. It's my role to chop the work down to bite-size and ask the fantastic BigPickle to just do the damn coding or bit of explaining. It works very well with interactive sessions with small tasks. Not giving something to work over night.
I used Claude with paid subscription and codex as well and settled to OpenCode with free models.
Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#387OpenCode 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…
I tried it briefly and the practice - argued for strategy for operation actually - to override my working folder seelction and altering to the parent root git folder is a no go.
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#388OpenCode 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…
That is very disappointing coz I've been wanting to try an alternative to Gemini CLI for exactly these reasons. The AI is great but the actual software is a buggy, slow, bloated blob of TypeScript (on a custom Node runtime IIUC!) that I really hate running. It takes multiple seconds to start, requires restarting to apply settings, constantly fucks up the terminal, often crashes due to JS heap overflows, doesn't respect my home dir (~/.gemini? Come on folks are we serious?), has an utterly unusable permission system, etc etc. Yet they had plenty of energy to inject silly terminal graphics and have dumb jokes and tips scroll across the screen.
Is Claude Code like this too? I wonder if Pi is any better.
A big downside would be paying actual cost price for tokens but on the other hand, I wouldn't be tied to Google's model backend which is also extremely flaky and unable to meet demand a lot of the time. If I could get real work done with open models (no idea if that's the case yet) and switch providers when a given provider falls over, that would be great.
Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
#389By default OpenCode sends all of your prompts to Grok's free tier to come up with chat summaries for the UI. To change that, you need to set a custom "small model" in the settings.
Also, even when using local models in ollama or lmstudio, prompts are proxied via their domain, so never put anything sensitive even when using local setup https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rv690j/opencod... They also don't let you run all local models, but specific whitelisted by another 3rd party: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/4232
To be clear, that seems to be about the webui only, the TUI doesn't seem affected. I haven't fully investigated this myself, but when I run opencode (1.2.27-a6ef9e9-dirty) + mitmproxy and using LM Studio as the backend, when starting opencode + executing a prompt, I only see two requests, both to my LM Studio instance, both normal inference requests (one for the chat itself + one for generating the title).
Everything you read on the internet seems exaggerated today. Especially true for reddit, and especially especially true for r/LocalLllama which is a former shadow of itself. Today it's mostly sockpuppets pushing various tools and models, and other sockpuppets trying to push misinformation about their competitors tools/models.
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Codex has some OS-level sandboxing by default that confines its actions to the current workspace [1].
OpenCode has no sandboxing, as far as I know.
That makes Codex a much better choice for security.