alt Hacker NewsFor coding assistance, I have tried OpenCode with several large open models through OpenRouter. All were fairly bad compared to Claude Opus. Could you provide some hints on how I should be holding these open models so that I might get more value out of them?
I agree with the common trope that open models lag behind by about a year, but something magical happened just around a year ago when the state of the art models became extremely useful. By this reasoning we're about to see open models perform well, but I'm afraid there is more to it than just waiting for another revolution around the sun.
Note, my application is coding assistance. Open models can be great for other purposes.
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Do more planning yourself, be smart about the context, break down tasks into smaller components, give it more guidance. You can't just lazily prompt it to complete large features autonomously and expect good results.
I tried almost all OS models on opencode, none of them is on levels as opus 4.7.
In latest experiment I used opus for implementation plan then used cursor composer 2.5 for execution.
I must say that combo is really good. Main drawback of claude code is that is super slow. So when paired with composer that is super fast it flies.