19 engineers on Hacker News describe using OpenCode first-hand: 5 endorse it, 2 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“I think it's an incredible tool and its wide support is a massive boon... Their more recent changes turning the CLI into more of a GUI has been quite annoying”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · tomburgs · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OpenCode Web has evolved a lot, I have been using it for quick scripting as well.”
endorse · personal · thibsrn · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have been messing with opencode (TUI mode)lately which is also nice.”
endorse · personal · grep_name · 2026-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am interested in switching because OpenCode isn't so trustworthy, it seems. This is the second issue that I've seen.”
regret · personal · john01dav · 2026-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using open code and it is horrible with ram usage.”
regret · personal · cute_boi · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to OpenCode Go ($10/mo), so we could switch between DeepSeek v4, GLM 5.1, and Qwen 3.7 models”
mixed · production · ignoramous · 2026-06-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I thought that, too, but lately I've been using OpenCode with Claude Opus, rather than Claude Code, and have been loving it.”
endorse · personal · atombender · 2025-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using OpenCode which had this future for at least 6 months... Also highly recommend OpenCode”
endorse · personal · 0.5 yr · dvtkrlbs · 2025-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have decided to use Claude code + opencode to develop it... I am very thoroughly impressed with the results”
endorse · personal · neoromantique · 2025-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I primarily use OpenCode running in a podman container for actually working on stuff.”
neutral · personal · einhard · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we rent our own GPU and have our own model(Q3.8-FN), so... free tokens :D We use OpenCode as a harness”
neutral · production · nunodonato · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Opencode for the self-hosted ones.”
neutral · production · guhcampos · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have had a $20 codex subscription... more recently have been using opencode with the open chamber ui over the top of it.”
neutral · production · rcgeorge23 · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“with my vx-maintainer expert, codex, opencode and claude-code as harnesses.”
neutral · personal · poelzi · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Claude but have been using it to help train opencode to drive a project”
neutral · personal · bartleeanderson · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it as an MCP in OpenCode and it seems adequate.”
neutral · personal · wmchen · 2026-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Everyone gets OpenCode Go. The cost is trivial. $10 a month per person.”
neutral · production · trollbridge · 2026-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our (EU-based) team is moving to an "ai-server" running opencode + GLM 5.2 and DS4.”
neutral · production · epolanski · 2026-06-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“been using Devstral 2 (Ollama) with OpenCode”
neutral · personal · cc62cf4a4f20 · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?