Comment by dev_l1x_be 5 hours ago
This whole situation is getting out of hand. With the development speed AI has it is a matter of time to have a competitor that has 80% what CC does and it is going to be good enough for most of us. Trying Windows the way into this category by Anthropic is not the smartest move.
OpenCode's amazing. I sometimes use it when I want an agent where I dont want to sign up or anything. It can just work without any sign up, just npx opencode (or any valid like pnpx,bunx etc.)
I don't pay for any AI subscription. I just end up building single file applications but they might not be that good sometimes so I did this experiment where I ask gemini in aistudio or chatgpt or claude and get files and end up just pasting it in opencode and asking it to build the file structure and paste it in and everything
If your project includes setting up something say sveltekit or any boilerplate project and contains many many files I recommend this workflow to get the best of both worlds for essentially free
To be really honest, I just end up mostly creating single page main.go files for my use cases from the website directly and I really love them a lot. Sure the code understandability takes a bit of hit but my projects usually stay around ~600 to 1000 at max 2000 lines and I really love this workflow/ for me personally, its just one of the best.
When I try AI agents, they really end up creating 25 files or 50 files and end up overarchitecting. I use AI for prototypes purposes for the most part and that overarchitecture actually hurts.
Mostly I just create software for my own use cases though. Whenever I face any problem that I find remotely interesting that impacts me, I try to do this and this trend has worked remarkably well for me for 0 dollars spent.
> that has 80% what CC does
OpenCode already does 120% of what CC does.