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They keep adding features without maintaining the core. I stopped using it when they started selling plans. The main reason for Opencode was to use multiple models but it turns out context sharing across models is PIA and impractical right now. I went back to using Claude Code and Codex side by side.

Having said that, there is definitely a need for open platform to utilize multiple vendors and models. I just don’t think the big three (Anthropic, OAI and Google) will cede that control over with so much money on the line.

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As someone who uses the two big C's, I can recommend ampcode[0] and Crush[1]+z.ai GLM as an addition.

Amp can do small utility scripts and changes for free (especially if you enable the ads) and Crush+GLM is pretty good at following plans done by Claude or Codex

[0] https://ampcode.com/

[1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush

Okay I am genuinely curious by what you mean ads. This is the first time I heard of the concept of ads in something like these code agents

There's screenshots here, they're visually seperated from the actual response https://x.com/connorado/status/2009707660988559827

An Ad based model although sucks, still feels like a decent model of income than companies which provide inference at loss making, interesting.

I hate the Ad models but I am pretty sure that most code gets trained in AI anyway and the code we generate would probably not be valuable metric (usually) to the ad company.

Interesting, what are your thoughts about it? Thanks for sharing this. Is the project profitable because I assume not, not sure how much advertisements costs would be there.

There's a tiny 2-line text ad above the prompt. I might have accidentally read it a few times, but meh. It's not like I look at the amp console that much anyway.

It seems to be about on par with Claude as a pair coder and I think it's a lot less verbose and concise on what it says, just sticking to the facts without any purple prose. It also seems to directly hook into ~/.claude/ just today it used a claude-only skill to analyse my codebase (using the scripts provided by the skill).

> They keep adding features without maintaining the core.

It does take a lot of discipline to review everything instead of pile on another feature, when it's so cheap to do.

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