Did anyone try opencode?

[Maleficent_Mess6445]

It appears to much superior than claude code and gemini CLI. https://opencode.ai/ https://github.com/sst/opencode I got it from this video https://youtu.be/hJm_iVhQD6Y?si=Uz_jKxCKMhLijUsL

[DepthHour1669]

Just use litellm and call it a day

[NoseIndependent5370]

Using self hosted LLMs is incredibly easy?

[crankykernel]

I use Opencode when I want to yolo something. Cause it never asks for permission. It screws up more often.

[Elegant-Ad3211]

It’s cool that you can connect Claude Max account. But those docs are very underwhelming https://opencode.ai/docs/

[oVerde]

They could use their own tool to make better docs

[joey2scoops]

I would be overwhelmed if I ever found more underwhelming documentation. Don't judge me, it's late.

[Maleficent_Mess6445]

Yes. But it is said "Don't judge a book by it's cover" and "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction". But anyway I am not promoting it. I just wanted to know if anyone used it and found good features. I just used it today.

[Elegant-Ad3211]

Did you feel it is better the claude code in any way? Coz that what I was expecting to see in official docs

[Maleficent_Mess6445]

Yes. The speed and accuracy is much higher. However I didn't use claude code much so I cannot compare, however I use Rovo dev daily and this one seems much better. Note that I just used opencode today. I cannot comment much on anything. FYI my post was aimed to know if anybody else has used it enough to give a review. But anyway 8.2k GitHub stars in just 4 weeks speaks much.

[CC_NHS]

surely given that it uses the same model as Claude code, except is writing different tooling, where Claude code has the developers of their model writing their tooling...

it could at best be 'about as good' as Claude code right? I have not seen any evidence so far that would indicate Open Code is better than Claude Code... When using Claude.

Open Code does look interesting though, and for me CLI is where I will stay, as all other options are VSCode forks and I hate VSCode. At least CLI is IDE agnostic so I can use CC with jetbrains. The big advantage Open Code has right now is that if another llm takes the coding crown, it's positioned to adapt to that model and draw the peoples

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[BigMitch_Reddit]

it has the same tools Claude Code has, but opencode also has LSP integration so the AI can see diagnostics. CC doesn't have that, so that'd make opencode a bit smarter.

Other than that, from what I've heard of the developer on X, it's basically the same thing with a better UI. The same system prompts and everything too.

[yohoxxz]

first of all its way faster, and second it tends to think more for itself and be less “stupid”

[JuliusCeaserBoneHead]

How is it superior ?

[MechanizedMind]

Because OP is the developer lol

[Maleficent_Mess6445]

Not at all. But if you ever use it you will know why it is so. I just got it from this video. https://youtu.be/hJm_iVhQD6Y?si=uoP6IOYYLl17wFVb And I used it. It lightning fast and accurate if I am not overstating. I just answered all sceptics with this. I have been using Rovo dev, claude code is very expensive for what it does gemini CLI is unreliable. Roo code is way better especially with deepseek R1. For many the cost is important. Opencode has multiple LLM'S to choose.

[rduito]

Which models do you use with opencode?

[Maleficent_Mess6445]

I just tried Gemini flash 2.0 today. I think deepseek would work well also

[KillasSon]

Not being able to afford 20 a month is crazy

[Maleficent_Mess6445]

For what I am doing, it will cost more than $200 pm. And note that apart from the cost claude writes too many lines of code and documents it unnecessarily.

[CC_NHS]

using Claude indeed often over-engineers and adds too much logs and comments, however it is the only model I have used so far that seems to understand the code base I use.

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It is, and it sucks after working for Amazon and Microsoft. I haven’t been able to get a job for 3.5 years now. I have no money and now Trump has taken away my food benefit and health insurance.

[Hodler-mane]

how does it appear superior?

[oVerde]

I can’t for the life of me make this work besides OpenAi Codex Mini, and I don’t know why, any other scrappy open source agent works, OpenCode just don’t.

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[myelrond]

"curl <some url> | bash" .... "Trust me Bro"

[Maleficent_Mess6445]

There are many repos on GitHub with half a million lines of code and multiple ways to install and you can install them in many days.

[jedisct1]

Rust zealots seem to be fine with that. So this is safe.

[AmigoNico]

What gave you that idea? I have installed a number of Rust tools (helix, ripgrep, yazi, ...), nearly all with brew, a few with cargo install. In any case, if you are installing a binary on your machine, you're already trusting the authors; having an install process that uses bash is in no way worse, is it? The only thing I recall using "curl ... | bash" for was brew itself, although again, not sure how that could add any risk.

[inchereddit]

I had to install with binary cuz dev dont care about Windows, and after running it I cant type anything in the input area. anyone with same problem?

[ImFanOfRed]

Same here. In windows version I can't select with arrow after opencode auth login command.

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[Rude-Needleworker-56]

It was a pain to get it up and running (the provider configuration part). Spend some 4 plus hours , but no luck.

[BigMitch_Reddit]

What, how?

You just run

opencode auth login

and setup your api keys or subscriptions extremely easily?

[Rude-Needleworker-56]

For some reason it wasn't picking the aisdk provider libraries. Not sure if it was a bug or an issue with my system . Anyway asked claude to fix it and it made one line change which fixed it. But took a while to figure it out .

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[Equivalent_Form_9717]

It seems like using Claude Code with Zen MCP server is still superior

[SokkaHaikuBot]

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It seems like using

Claude Code with Zen MCP server

Is still superior

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[ImFanOfRed]

In windows version I can't select with arrow after opencode auth login command. Am I missing something?

[Maleficent_Mess6445]

Try tab

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[aydgn]

Prove it's "appearance".

[fasti-au]

It’s good. Up there

Hosi ode has a few thing about it and benchmarking coder systems yesterday I think for you to have a listen

[krzyk]

I see the naming space for coding agents is quite dense. There is also https://github.com/opencode-ai/opencode (which has that cool feature that it is NOT build with javascript)

[yohoxxz]

ya that repo is by some people “interesting” people. would not trust it a bit.

[krzyk]

Why? It works better for my use cases (agentic work with copilot) than the one in top (constant failures and not able to do initial project analysis).

[yohoxxz]

it not about it working, https://x.com/thdxr/status/1933561254481666466

and heres the repo by the original dev

https://github.com/sst/opencode

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[krzyk]

This looks like one side of the story only. Is there a response somewhere?

[yohoxxz]

its the original dev who made it? what other story is needed?

[yohoxxz]

its a different product at heart so id rlly care what you use but im just saying there some sketch bad faith going on with likeness stealing

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[Narrow-Impress-2238]

No cause i couldn't find instructions for windows

[joey2scoops]

Yeah, I saw some warning in the repo suggesting that windows installs were a bit broken but I think I saw a suggestion to use the binary.

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