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Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

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I'd suggest Go ahead of Rust. It's more accessible to contributors.

> It's more accessible to contributors. What would make go more "accessible to contributors" than Rust?

Mature tui packages like bubbletea, lipgloss. Besides TS resemblance to go could push the movement of rewrite, not necessarily easier though.

CC isn't foss in the first place, so the previous comment falls short.

Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

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post #408

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> It's more accessible to contributors. What would make go more "accessible to contributors" than Rust?

Go is a language one can learn and become functional in an afternoon. Rust is way more involved.

To vibe coders it doesn't matter, right?

Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

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I don’t know why people use opencode. I mean it’s better than copilot but it’s pretty terrible in general when there are better options available.

Rather than listing what tooling you think is worse than OpenCode, wouldn't it make sense to list what tooling you think is better?

Amp. CC. Codex. They all have a better harness.

Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

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By 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.

this isn't true

it will use whatever small model there is in your provider

we had a fallback where we provided free small models if your provider did not have one (gpt nano)

some configs fell back to this unexpectedly which upset people so we removed it

Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

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post #375

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I think the parent meant vs MacOS, not vs Linux.

Users of MacOS rarely have an active dislike for Windows, nor are they likely to announce this.

I use macos and I do actively dislike windows: here I announce it.

Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

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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??

They're talking about before it's configured by the user. It defaults to 'free' models so that the user can ask a question immediately on startup. Once you configure a provider, the default models aren't used.

Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

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post #244

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> I’m sure we’ll all learn a lot from these early days of agentic coding. So far what I am learning (from watching all of this) is that our constant claims that quality and security matter seem to not be true on average. Depressingly.

> our constant claims that quality and security matter I'm 13 years into this industry, this is the first I'm hearing of this.

20 for me, and let's not exaggerate. We've given lip service to it this entire time. Hell look at any of the corps we're talking about (including where I work) and they're demanding "velocity without lowering the quality bar", but it's a lie: they don't care about the quality bar in the slightest.

Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

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Driver issues are way more of a thing on Windows than Linux or MacOS.

Getting hardware to work is MUCH harder on Linux

Last years I have had more problem with hardware in windows than in linux. It is not so trivial anymore.

Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

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OpenCode 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…

Why not just code your own agent harness
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