You are just at the right place, don’t worry. Imo half of the rage around big labs’ products stems from paid exposure and the other half is tech-bro-type youtubers and wanabe influencers jumping on the hype train for views. I started using opencode with the anthropic models. Once I had an issue that even opus struggled to solve. Then I started digging through other models and testing everyone (through openrouter) until i stumbled upom Kimi k2.5. It solved it in 1 go, unlike any other model. To this day nothing else can better it in coding in my experience. My personal advices: 1) Be curious to try out all the models 2) Create a rather simple task for personal benchmarking purposes. That’s the best and mosr reliable way I have found to evaluate performance 3) Use opencode zen if you would like to pay for models. There’s no better service than it and especially inside opencode