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After reading this opinion ten times today. Can someone explain to me why OpenCode is a “better harness”? Or is it just because it’s open source that people sup
by fathermarz 9mo ago
After reading this opinion ten times today. Can someone explain to me why OpenCode is a “better harness”? Or is it just because it’s open source that people support it?
- cadamsdotcom 9mo agoAll these harnesses are free and grateful for any use they get. It might be worthwhile to try it and see.
- fathermarz 9mo agoGood call. Will test it out today
- hakanderyal 9mo agoIt's mostly based on feelings/"vibes", and hugely dependent on the workflow you use. I'm so happy with Claude Code, Opus and plan mode that I don't feel any need to check the others.
- vorpalhex 9mo agoOpenCode has some more advanced features and plays nicely in more advanced setups. ClaudeCode isn't bad at all, but OpenCode has some tricks up it's sleeve.
- dionian 9mo agoe.g. ?
- gempir 9mo ago- ships also as a desktop app - ships with web server that has a UI you can open in your browser, even access remotely with tailscale or so - the server has an API to do almost all things allowing you to build on top of it, the people at ramp build a very advanced internal agent on top of OpenCode https://builders.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-background-agent https://builders.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-background-a...
- eikenberry 9mo agoNo matter what the answer to the question is.. IMO "just" is out of place here. Being free/open source software is a big deal, particularly for a developer tool.