alt Hacker News> This is speculative, but I suspect that if we dropped one of the latest, most capable open-weight LLMs, such as GLM-5, into a similar harness, it could likely perform on par with GPT-5.4 in Codex or Claude Opus 4.6 in Claude Code.
Unless I'm misunderstanding what's being described here, running Claude Code with different backend models is pretty common.
https://docs.z.ai/scenario-example/develop-tools/claude
It doesn't perform on par with Anthropic's models in my experience.
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kamikazeturtles • yesterday at 4:33 PM
> It doesn't perform on par with Anthropic's models in my experience.
Why do you think that is the case? Is Anthropic's models just better or do they train the models to somehow work better with the harness?
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I've found that on some projects maybe 70-80% of what can be done with Sonnet 4.6 in OpenCode can be done with a cheaper model like MiMo V2 Pro or similar. On others Sonnet completely outperforms. I'm not sure why. I only find Opus to be worth the extra cost maybe 5% of the time.
I also find OpenCode to be drastically better than Claude Code, to the extent that I'm buying OpenRouter API credits rather than Claude Max because Claude Code just isn't good enough.
I'm frankly amazed at what OpenCode can do with a few custom commands (just for common things like doing a quality review, etc.), and maybe an extra "agent" definition or two. For many projects even most of this isn't necessary. Often I just ask it to write an AGENTS.md that encapsulates a good development workflow, git branch/commit policy, testing and quality standards, and ROADMAP.md plus per milestone markdown files with phases and task tracking, and this is enough.
I'm somewhat interested in these more involved harnesses that automated or enforce more, but I don't know that they'd give me much that I don't have and I think they'd be tough to keep up with the state of the art compared to something less specific.