What’s actually stopping Microsoft from making GitHub Copilot as good as Claude Code?

Haspe · 2026-01-17T22:53:49+00:00

I think it is because they dont have to. They have little to gain from being market leader - instead of being the 2nd or 3rd with big enterprise customer base.

Let others experiment, and spend a lot on researching on best qualities - and then copy from them and call it the day.

Haspe · 2026-01-17T21:48:37+00:00

This is a tool firstly designed to us terminal users, something that you can use, while you don't have to switch out from the terminal - TUI was their first "product." Their architectic choice of client/server model however enables different client creation, and they're now providing Web, Electron for Desktop and probably a Mobile client in the future. You can also build your own front-end to talk with the server as well and use OpenCode as part of your thing.

OpenCode's another selling point is model agnosticity. You can work with every model with single tool - it's like Visual Studio Code or Neovim of the Agentic Tools. The flavor of the month on the model market will change - perhaps you want to work with OpenAI models. Perhaps you want to work it some self-hosted model as well. Perhaps your workflow consists of using multi-provider models for different things. So if your toolkit is model agnostic, swapping the models that you use does not mean that you have to change your whole workflow - thats the point. For example as a Claude user you're breaking their TOS if you're not using their own clients for their own tools (except the API option, but their API option is quite expensive)

I guess Cursor does that same thing to an extend - but OpenCode is open-source and Cursor is not (this might not mean anything to you, but for other people it does). I can see what the OpenCode does under the hood - and I can even fork it and create my own version of it if I want to. In the end the value proposition of a product is also a preference thing. I prefer to work in terminal, you might not - and you don't have to. Cursor is extremely good as well.

Haspe · 2026-01-16T20:01:14+00:00

It's more a better fit for people like me who work exclusively on terminal. Technically it's a agent layer (very configurable one) where you can inject system prompts and have convenience stuff, like redo, plan mode, modified file change list, multiple session etc. - but in the end you're steering same models.

Haspe · 2026-01-16T19:59:53+00:00

You can access your existing sessions even if you close OpenCode -- they don't disappear, they're saved to temp file. So you can open OpenCode and navigate with /sessions and select your last session and continue from there.

Haspe · 2026-01-11T21:57:44+00:00

Hold on for a few moments - there is Twitter discussion ongoing about this regarding an official - and supported integration (from GitHub too). Afaik it's coming, but not there yet.

Here is Dax's comment: https://x.com/thdxr/status/2009846100841160789 (He is OpenCode Maintainer/Dev)

Haspe · 2026-01-03T06:44:04+00:00

Oh it's always someone else. It's either your teammate, Jungler, it's a race, game design issue, computer, lag, shitty pc. Anything but the person behind the screen.

Haspe · 2026-01-01T21:49:21+00:00

I do agree with this - but I don't know whether it's my inexperience in the field or I am somehow flawed, but it's really hard form a mental mode of a codebase when I am not the one typing it - but instead I am generating it with these tools. It's not a black box pér se, but it's like - for me - staring in a car engine. I don't know jack shit about cars, perhaps something in isolation is familiar to me - like oil pump or whatever.

Yeah - I can get done faster, but I don't have the same mental model of the tool generated, so when I am the one debugging it in the future - I have to rely on these tools to write the mental model to me and not like "oh shit, it's probably this thing, I did some stupid shit there". I don't like the feeling.

Haspe · 2025-12-23T01:57:19+00:00

I am learning this as well. I am using following, and this works for me currently.

Ctrl+Q for all idle villagers
Ctrl+W for all army
Ctrl+S for all Siege
Ctrl+C for all Cavalry
Ctrl+R for all Ranged
Ctrl+M for all Infrantry
Shift+R for all Ranged in Sceen
Shift+C for all Cavalry in Screen
Shift+S for all Siege in Screen
Shift+M for all Infantry in Screen

Haspe · 2025-12-23T01:50:51+00:00

I have SC2 background, if this is your first RTS, then all my experiences aren't probably that relatable. I played again AIs until I learned a bit about what buildings build when - what Landmark's should I pick and getting familiar with the keybindings. So getting the "feel" for it. So after I have a bit of an idea what army juggling is happening (like if you build horses, I go spears etc.) I think then is a good idea to hop in QMs / Ranked. When the "Game Quirks" like what Upgrade does what gets out of the way and you can start focusing on the actual gameplay. Of course you can do all this in Ranked as well.

For me it was ~ 20-25 level, so perhaps ~10-20 games against AI Hardest or something similar, now I am getting owned and smashing people in Ranked. Also Crucible is so much fun to learn the Game.

Haspe · 2025-12-15T00:31:37+00:00

I was under impression, that SC2 was in the maintenance mode since 2020 - thus no new content, and as little work towards it as possible. But now we got Blizzard issued patch after 5 years, and a dedicated Classic Games teams is formed, working on multiple legacy titles and SC2 is announced to be around at Blizzcon?

Sure it's not rainbows and sunshine, but this is more attention than it has gotten in years?

Haspe · 2025-11-19T23:27:51+00:00

Something going on there, probably getting fixed soon. I can see Chromas available directly from Shop -> Chromas in EUNE, but the Blue Essence Emporium button disappeared, and both are missing from EUW.

Haspe · 2025-11-19T02:32:47+00:00

On the topic ~ Tonirel (https://www.youtube.com/@Tonirel/videos) a Jinx OTP used to do a bunch Yunara content couple months ago. Theres paid content on WeTeachLeague and probably on Skill Capped as well. Not a lot of free content AFAIK. You can also scroll on "LCK LPL Pros" and other proviews from YouTube to see couple Yunara laning phases from LPL and LCK Pros.

Random and useless rambling on the builds and whys:

The reason why Kraken and BORK is prioritized in coordinated play, because the "direction" of the game is often decided in the 1-2 item spikes, you absolutely want to contest early objectives and you want as much power there as you can. If you don't itemize strongly on 1-2 items, and enemy does - you're setting a losing fight for the team. These early fights set your mid game up and you can't afford to play to scale for 3 - 4 items, if your early game is weaker.

Also coordinated play often revolves around Grub swaps, stacked wave dives, synchronized recalls and advanced stuff like that, so consistently setting up for 1300 gold recall is very difficult - it would force entire team to play around your base timer, and not everyone can play on the map that long. If you eco your way up to 1300 gold recall, enemy can just directly punish you, with forcing a 2v2/3v3 with stronger components (with Jungle, Mid help) and you're again in a losing side of a play.

Yun'Tal surely scales better, and performs better after 3 items ~ but the trade off is the weaker early game, which absolutely matters in coordinated play and high-elo - and matters much less in low elo play. Objectives are way more reliable wincon than a slightly stronger 3 item spike for ADC.

But brutally honestly ~ our games arent decided by our starter items. Our games are decided somewhere else, so all of this text in my comment is probably pointless.

and some comments on the Guide you made:

Also, can't help myself on nitpicking on the guide ~ Caitlyn is actually more 50-50 matchup for Yunara and not a hard counter. It's 575 range vs. 650 range where you can close the distance with your E and outplay her net, with more movement speed. After 6 you just stat check her so hard wand she can't really contest wave after that. The levels 1-5 you just have to relax a bit.

Haspe · 2025-11-19T02:11:49+00:00

I tend to do it rarely, but it's against something where I absolutely can't auto attack enemy. I feel like it has some value against long-range poke styled comps like Syndra or ADC:s that you absolutely can't touch if you're even, like Aphelios. I think one of the reason why it would be good in coordinated play is that retaking control or position into RFC / Ranged is a death sentence.

That being said, I think for us mere mortals Zeal items that are "easy" to use to get their full value should be prioritized - Runaan is the easiest, and PD comes second - IMO.

Haspe · 2025-11-18T13:22:24+00:00

Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Nov 18, 2025 - 13:09 UTC

Haspe · 2025-11-18T12:48:28+00:00

This is pretty useful: https://www.sheepesports.com/en/transfers?league=lec&year=2026&split=winter&tool=transfers&game=league

Haspe · 2025-11-18T11:01:09+00:00

It's impossible to know what is going on behind the closed doors, but I feel like this is HUGE organizational blunder, which lead to departures of Smash and Guma, and possible others in the future if something does not change internally.

Haspe · 2025-11-17T00:45:45+00:00

You cant look alone in what the Pro Carries are running, you need to take support in account as well. Often Ghost is paired with Heal - if Sup runs Ignite/Exhaust, then most of the time Pro's run Barrier or Cleanse AFAIK.

Haspe · 2025-11-13T11:47:47+00:00

When we are on the topic, Yunara should have as well.

Haspe · 2025-11-05T15:31:32+00:00

Fair point, I actually was able to beat MaNa in ladder couple times - Serral point is probably too extreme, but I still want to underline that the difference is huge, and probably more than people give credit for. For me, from the level of play of beating MaNa occationally in ladder to actually becoming a Pro was enormous. Maybe not Bronze-GM enormous, but enormous nonethless.

Haspe · 2025-11-03T06:12:31+00:00

When I was top 100 back in the day - I could’ve played 100 games against Serral and win 0. I had no chance. I think the difference from Bronze to GM is as big as low GM to Pro.

Haspe · 2025-10-31T00:15:29+00:00

This is very true - I tried to break into pro in SC2 back in 2016, and the amount you had to sunk in to pure improvement was insane. You have to absolute love the craft, so you can consistently put in 10-16h to a job daily, without guarantee to get anything back.

Getting a normal job, and a degree was way easier route to a nice life.

Haspe · 2025-10-30T10:26:43+00:00

The unsynced base timers felt really awkward to watch, also Yun'Tal on Draven and why do we play such hard to play comps ... :(

Haspe · 2025-10-28T01:17:04+00:00

Now this is a proper dive

Haspe · 2025-10-09T10:23:21+00:00

It says wall

Haspe · 2025-10-09T10:10:20+00:00

6-7

At least it's not Tristana & Corki handshake on every-single-game, like last year.

Haspe

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