alt Hacker NewsThis is definitely Barbara Streisanding right now. I had never heard of OpenCode. But I sure have now! Will have to check it out. Doubt I’ll end up immediately canceling Claude Code Max, but we’ll see.
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agreed. This is definitely free PR for OpenCode. I didn't try it myself until I heard the kerfuffle around Anthropic enforcing their ToS. It definitely has a much nicer UX than claude-code, so I might give the GPT subscription a shot sometime, given that it's officially supported w/ 3rd party harnesses, and gpt 5.2 doesn't appear to be that far behind Opus (based on what other people say).
OpenCode is kind of a security disaster though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581095. To be clear, I know all software has bugs, including security bugs. But that wasn't an obscure vulnerability, that was "our entire dev team fundamentally has no fucking clue what they're doing, and our security reporting and triage process is nonexistent". No way am I entrusting production code and secrets to that.
I don’t know if the Streisand Effect is relevant here since Anthropic will block any other uses of their private APIs, not just OpenCode. The private Claude Code API was never advertised nor sold as a general purpose API for use with any tool.
OpenCode is an interesting tool but if this is your first time hearing of it you should probably be aware of their recent unauthenticated RCE issues and the slow response they’ve had to fixing it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581095 They say they’re going to do better in the future but it’s currently on my list of projects to keep isolated until their security situation improves.