Comment by arkariarn
18 hours ago
I see some anthropic claude code people are reading the comments. A day or two ago I watched a video by theo t3.gg on whether claude got dumber. Even though he was really harsh on anthropic and said some mean stuff. I thought some of the points he was raising about claude code was quite apt. Especially when it comes to the harness bloat. I really hope the new features now stop and there is a real hard push for polish and optimization. Otherwise I think a lot of people will start exploring less bloated more optimized alternatives. Focus on making the harness better and less token consuming.
Everything else aside, their brief "experiment" with removing CC support from the Pro plan got me seriously considering other options. I've been wary of vendor lock-in the whole time, but it was a useful reminder. (opencode+openrouter will probably be my first port of call)
I'm 3 weeks into switching from CC to OpenCode, and in some ways it is far superior to CC right out of the box, and I've maybe burned $200 in tokens to make a private fork that is my ultimate development and personal agent platform. Totally worth it.
Still use CC at work because team standards, but I'd take my OpenCode stack over it any day.
I find OpenCode vastly superior. Only thing missing is Vim mode but I saw a fork that someone implemented it. I really like being able to click on a previous message I sent to revert to that point in the conversation. You can revert in CC by pressing Escape twice but the “menu” it takes you to for picking the message is terrible because it only shows your messages. Also, expanding subagent/tools/thinking/etc. blocks is super intuitive in OpenCode whereas CC’s view when you press CTRL+O is also terrible and hard to understand at first glance.
I’m in the process of doing this as well - hackability is such a massive moat.
Care to share what you changed, maybe even the code?
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The solution IMO is to switch to an agent harness wrapper solution that uses CLI-wrapping or ACP to connect to different coding agents. This is the only way that works across OpenAI, Claude and Gemini.
There are a few out there (latest example is Zed's new multi-agent UI), but they still rely on the underlying agent's skill and plugin system. I'm experimenting with my own approach that integrates a plugin system that can dynamically change the agent skillset & prompts supplied via an integrated MCP server, allowing you to define skills and workflows that work regardless of the underlying agent harness.
never ever forget theo's gpt 5 hype video and then him having to walk it back.
its very clear that theres money or influence exchanging hands behind the scenes with certain content creators, the information, and openai.
literally just `git reset --hard <random hash from 3 months ago>` would fix this
That implies it's broken. Juicing revenue and slashing opex at the expense of brand and customer retention is the feature.