I hoped anomalyco/opencode would be a decent Claude Code alternative, and that it would work with a relatively small model like `qwen2.5-coder-14b-instruct-q5_k_m` for simple coding tasks.
Unfortunately, my experience was extremely disappointing. This happened on Fedora.
Instead of responding to simple prompts, it got stuck in what appeared to be an infinite loop producing nonsense like:
> Objection
> work state
> active
> blocked
> next move...
Even the response-copying functionality didn't work, so I couldn't easily copy the output. (Using Terminator Terminal Emulator)
And no, the model itself isn't the problem. I manually called the exact same llama.cpp OpenAI-compatible endpoint with `reply with Hi`, and it correctly replied `Hi`.
I also checked the OpenCode configuration and corrected the model ID to exactly match what the OpenAI-compatible `/v1/models` endpoint reports. Same result: endless nonsense.
So something in the OpenCode integration/agent prompting is clearly going wrong in this setup.
And please don't tell me to "read the docs." I've never read a single line of Claude Code documentation and have been using Claude Code without issues for several months. If Claude can make the experience that seamless, I'd expect a project with 200k stars to provide at least a usable experience.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I wasted ~20 minutes trying to get a basic setup working.
Posting this in the hope it saves someone else 20 minutes.
Aider-AI/aider review: how many times do I need to click D here to stop being prompted this each time I open session?
> Open documentation url for more info? (Y)es/(N)o/(D)on't ask again [Yes]: D
Update: after actually trying Aider, I don't understand the point of it.
It feels like browser AI chat moved into a terminal, except now it's on your own dime, with no freemium. Ask it `find test_main location` and it won't actually run `find` and inspect the repo. It tells you it can't access files you haven't explicitly added.
That's basically browser chat wrapped in a terminal with a few pre-existing skills.
I hoped anomalyco/opencode would be a decent Claude Code alternative, and that it would work with a relatively small model like `qwen2.5-coder-14b-instruct-q5_k_m` for simple coding tasks.
Unfortunately, my experience was extremely disappointing. This happened on Fedora.
Instead of responding to simple prompts, it got stuck in what appeared to be an infinite loop producing nonsense like:
> Objection > work state > active > blocked > next move...
Even the response-copying functionality didn't work, so I couldn't easily copy the output. (Using Terminator Terminal Emulator)
And no, the model itself isn't the problem. I manually called the exact same llama.cpp OpenAI-compatible endpoint with `reply with Hi`, and it correctly replied `Hi`.
I also checked the OpenCode configuration and corrected the model ID to exactly match what the OpenAI-compatible `/v1/models` endpoint reports. Same result: endless nonsense.
So something in the OpenCode integration/agent prompting is clearly going wrong in this setup.
And please don't tell me to "read the docs." I've never read a single line of Claude Code documentation and have been using Claude Code without issues for several months. If Claude can make the experience that seamless, I'd expect a project with 200k stars to provide at least a usable experience.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I wasted ~20 minutes trying to get a basic setup working.
Posting this in the hope it saves someone else 20 minutes.
Aider-AI/aider review: how many times do I need to click D here to stop being prompted this each time I open session?
> Open documentation url for more info? (Y)es/(N)o/(D)on't ask again [Yes]: D
Update: after actually trying Aider, I don't understand the point of it.
It feels like browser AI chat moved into a terminal, except now it's on your own dime, with no freemium. Ask it `find test_main location` and it won't actually run `find` and inspect the repo. It tells you it can't access files you haven't explicitly added.
That's basically browser chat wrapped in a terminal with a few pre-existing skills.
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