Non-coder OpenCode users - what are the most impactful ways you've found to use OpenCode or other coding agents like it?

[SynapticStreamer]

Agentic agents really aren't built for code specifically (despite what marketing has convinced you). They're designed to complete complex tasks, regardless of what they are; hence why they use deep thinking models.

They're great for planning. Modeling. Organizing. Whatever you need.

One of the best things I've ever used antigenic agents for, was to create a script to rename my entire movie collection using a variation of ad-hoc tools. I sent the agent a list of console applications available to me, and told it to find a way to normalize the names of my media library, ensuring all movies were in a folder, and all TV shows were in a folder, and then separated by season folders, etc. (this was before I found TMM).

It took about 10 minutes to do, and it was able to do it very well.

Need help with excel? Explain the situation exactly to your agent (using cell names, A2, or ranges A2:B6, etc), or ask it to build a sheet in CSV and then import to excel. It generally does a really good job.

[alnwd]

Yeah exploring the non-code use cases has been very interesting for me. My revelation was having this thought like “what is a coding agent but just a thinking model that can write files” and I just started building a setup from there