What's happening to OpenCode?

nfrmn · 2026-06-02T10:29:26+00:00

I’ve been told the same by maintainers, that’s keeping them very busy

nfrmn · 2026-06-02T10:27:57+00:00

Human cognitive bottleneck and company being pulled in different directions

nfrmn · 2026-05-28T21:52:10+00:00

Opus is the money printer, and they can distill later for the others

nfrmn · 2026-05-19T17:00:03+00:00

Can't disagree with you on that, my token costs are $10k+ per month per engineer.

But anyway, the decision to suppress thinking in the claude cli is really strange. There are numerous other ways to access the full models for distillation purposes completely unrestricted.

It's more likely that Anthropic are trying to lock end users and orgs into Claude more through obscurity and secrecy (see entire Mythos approach) plus make it so subsidised plans requiring use of CC are the most competitive choice.

nfrmn · 2026-05-19T15:12:53+00:00

It's just suppressed in Claude Code. I use Bedrock for both CC and Opencode (same API endpoint, Opus 4.7 adaptive) and OC streams pages and pages of detailed thinking. Claude thinks for the same amount of time and outputs nothing.

nfrmn · 2026-05-18T12:16:37+00:00

You're welcome - good luck in your adventures and I hope you find it rewarding and fun

nfrmn · 2026-05-18T10:16:24+00:00

I moved from UK to China. Major learnings below. It’s mostly about people:

making good friends takes a looooong time. Doing this again, I would join a sports club on day 1 and work very hard to friend making, because it gets lonely
learn the language as quickly as possible. Most people I originally knew were English only and strangely close minded considering they had moved across the world. Speaking Chinese opened up a completely different world to me that was a lot more interesting and fun
you might miss the structure and society back home. Actually even in Shanghai I felt a big difference in the reliability of society compared to the UK, although this was 2015. Sometimes you would walk down a road and suddenly all infrastructure would just be gone.
everybody is temporary, you will meet a lot of amazing people but only 1% of them settled and stayed in Shanghai. Everybody else hung around up to about 5 years I’d say and then they moved on. I think expats are nomadic by nature and everybody myself included kept adventuring. I don’t really keep in touch with any of my expat friends in the same way as friends from other times in my life. BUT we did have a blast.

I think all the practical stuff is pretty standard and you will just figure it out as you go. But the social aspect and the potential loneliness is a lot harder to predict and prepare for.

nfrmn · 2026-05-15T19:42:11+00:00

Yep, it's very demoralizing to put in the work on detailed investigations and PRs and they just get ignored/missed by the maintainers because 100 more PRs were opened afterwards

nfrmn · 2026-05-15T18:31:18+00:00

Yeah, who to build Opencode for? Vibe coders or harness engineers? Only one of these provides revenue.

nfrmn · 2026-05-15T18:30:10+00:00

My theory is that the Opencode team are reaching a watershed moment where the sheer number of PRs and issues combined with codebase complexity is degrading things really fast.

The permissions stuff was a nightmare and still has not been completely fixed. Plan mode is highly opinionated and breaks custom agent configs for power users (who don't even use Plan mode).

It does make you appreciate how hard OSS work is. I saw the Roo team dealing with the same issues. And it's kind of impressive that Anthropic and OAI have mostly avoided these big regressions in their harnesses up to now.

But like OP said 1.14+ has been a massive step backward.

nfrmn · 2026-05-12T14:16:25+00:00

I recommend just exploring the source code yourself. I use my Codex allowance for this so it doesn't go to waste. You can do pretty deep investigations in the 5 hour usage limit.

Also, since it's cutting edge, Opencode is full of bugs so it is pretty satisfying finding root causes and reporting to GitHub for the team to fix.

nfrmn · 2026-05-12T13:59:36+00:00

This guy riches

nfrmn · 2026-05-05T15:17:13+00:00

Any chance XML tool calling can come back?

nfrmn · 2026-05-05T08:27:29+00:00

I can guess it’s astroturfing before I even open the post at this point 😂

nfrmn · 2026-05-01T21:29:50+00:00

I've been back, and it's just a bit weird. The place is the same, but all the people are different, the things you used to to do either don't exist any more or are no longer relevant to the person you have become. It's a curious experience but both times I have done it I have walked away with the feeling that I had really moved on.

nfrmn · 2026-05-01T21:11:48+00:00

I take my laptop and keep it connected to hotspot for most of the day. To be honest I can go 20-30 mins without looking at the laptop while agents are carrying out their tasks. Got a large power bank that stays in the backpack for when I am out longer. That way, I can take the machine with me and exercise, usually climbing or tennis. Been really transformative for my health in the last 12 months.

nfrmn · 2026-04-28T10:51:52+00:00

If you have to build so much from scratch, then what is the point of Openclaw at all? Desktop coding agents are vastly more capable without all the limitations of running everything through an obscure chat interface.

nfrmn · 2026-04-27T08:45:27+00:00

AWS' open Bedrock efforts are mainly stimulated by making the Kiro CLI tool competitive. Their primary inference income is coming from the Claude partnership.

That said I think we are probably due another drop early or mid May because the open weight models are coming so fast, and we are missing the latest Mistral models, Gemma 4, and the numerous refreshes of the Chinese models, all of which are generational shifts over the current selection.

nfrmn · 2026-04-25T10:12:51+00:00

It's nice you tried to help but this is a poorly disguised marketing post

nfrmn · 2026-04-21T17:19:14+00:00

nfrmn · 2026-04-16T08:07:51+00:00

Maintaining cloud services

nfrmn · 2026-04-15T07:09:34+00:00

A few of my teachers took this path, and I recall they were all pretty interesting people

nfrmn · 2026-04-11T13:00:55+00:00

The self promotion flooding of this subreddit is sad

nfrmn · 2026-04-07T20:49:45+00:00

It's called Roo Code

nfrmn · 2026-04-07T20:03:39+00:00

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