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_ache_ wrote: post #471
robbie-c wrote: post #427

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Quite a lot worse. Both OpenAI and xAI were among the largest donors of Trump's campaign Musk was the largest individual political donor of the 2024 election [1] and Greg Brockman was the largest donor to Trump's "MAGA Inc" super PAC [2] [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/06/elon-mu... [2] https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867947/o...

If you evaluate fascism in terms of donation, yes. But it is more about the political opinions, IMHO, and Anthropic doesn't sound more attractive than the competitors. Anthropic is very much to the right of the transhumanism spectrum (even if xAI and OpenAI are even farther).

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Post by 1dom »

logicprog wrote: post #107

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…

> 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;

This is my experience with most AI tools that I spend more than a few weeks with. It's happening so often it's making me question my own judgement: "if everything smells of shit, check your own shoes." I left professional software engineering a couple of years ago, and I don't know how much of this is also just me losing touch with the profession, or being an old man moaning about how we used to do it better.

It reminds me of social media: there was a time where social media platforms were defined by their features, Vine was short video, snapchat was disappearing pictures, twitter was short status posts etc. but now they're all bloated messes that try do everything.

The same looks to be happening with AI and agent software. They start off as defined by one features, and then become messes trying to implement the latest AI approach (skills, or tools, or functions, or RAG, or AGENTS.md, or claws etc. etc.)

Re: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

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Post by ekjhgkejhgk »

heavyset_go wrote: post #257

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.

> By default OpenCode sends all of your prompts to Grok's free tier

Just my prompts, or everything the agent has in the context window?

Also, could you please provide a reference for this claim? Thank you

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Post by gwd »

blks wrote: post #123
gwd wrote: post #25

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Or have Claude write the code and Gemini review it. (Was using GPT for review until the recent Pentagon thing.)

You can also review the code you ship yourself.

I certainly do -- but having Gemini review it first saves a lot of time.

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Post by andai »

integralid wrote: post #275
heavyset_go wrote: post #258

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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.

This. I work on projects that warrant a self hosted model to ensure nothing is leaked to the cloud. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that even though the only configured model is local, all my prompts are sent to the cloud to... generate a session title. Fortunately caught during testing phase.

If you're using software someone else wrote, you'd have to repeat this testing phase any time an update is installed, right?

(I do mean this as a general principle, but also it was pointed out elsewhere in the thread that this is a particularly "high velocity" project as far as unexpected changes go.)

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Post by kaufmann »

jmmv wrote: post #374
logicprog wrote: post #107

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…

> 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…

Could it be, that one source of the memory usage is the built-in language server?

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Post by walthamstow »

jimmydoe wrote: post #457
ctmnt wrote: post #409

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I think you’re confusing capital c Claude Code, the desktop Electron app, and lowercase c `claude`, the command line tool with an interactive TUI. They’re both TypeScript under the hood, but the latter is React + Ink rendered into the terminal. The redraw glitches you’re referring to are actually signs of what I consider to be a pretty major feature, a reason to use `claude` instead of `codex` or `opencode`: `claude`…

not sure if same reason but window resize feels better in claude than codex. on my m1, claude is noticeably slower when starting, but it feels ok after that.

I had a nasty slow claude code startup time at one point something like 8s, a clean install sorts it all out. Back up your mcp config and skills and you're good.

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Post by frumiousirc »

plastic3169 wrote: post #318
logicprog wrote: post #107

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…

I’ve been testing opencode and it feels TUI in appearance only. I prefer commandline and TUIs and in my mind TUI idea is to be low level, extremely portable interface and to get out of the way. Opencode does not have low color, standard terminal theme so had to switch to a proper terminal program. Copy paste is hijacked so I need to write code out to file in order to get a snippet. The enter key (as in the return by…

> Copy paste is hijacked

FWIW, in Kitty on Linux, SHIFT + mouse-select copies and SHIFT + middle-mouse-button pastes. This use of SHIFT and otherwise using standard Unix style copy/paste is common in a lot of TUIs (eg, weechat).

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Post by pprotas »

One thing that makes OpenCode stand out to me is the web UI. I host it on my rPi 4B, serving as my AI assistant and remote mobile access to my homelab.

Since the homelab doesn't really have access to any risky data, I just gave OpenCode full Docker access and connect to it through Tailscale on my iPhone https://github.com/pprotas/homelab

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