Why is OpenCode better than Claude Code?

I wouldn’t say it’s better, but it does have some nice features. Opencode has a web UI, so I can open it on my laptop and then resume the same session on the web from my phone through Tailscale. It’s pretty handy from time to time and takes almost zero effort from me.

Works with several providers (e.g. Github copilot or bring your own key). They offer a server and an sdk, so you can build all kinds of personal tools. It's amazing.

Claude Code also has Claude Agent SDK (basically a wrapper around Claude Code) with a million downloads in the past week.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk

Very interesting! What do you mean by personal tools? Do you have any examples of something you've built with this?

It is open source, to start with, and works with a lot of LLMs providers instead of being vendor locked into one.

Nice solution, I had some success with https://www.task-master.dev/ it's a bit more complex though

For connecting agents to third-party systems I prefer CLI tools, less context bloat and faster. You can define the CLI usage in your agent instructions. If the MCP you're using doesn't exist as a CLI, build one with your agent.

Totally agree - wrote this over the holidays which sums it all pretty well https://martinalderson.com/posts/why-im-building-my-own-clis...

Well kind of. They use the same data center infrastructure, with internal versions of the external GCP services.

Depends on the service but for the most part googles infra has its own stack that GCP is built on top of. There is always initiatives going on to get more internal stuff running on GCP as opposed to the internal infra directly, but none of them have really stuck that I saw.

I'm fairly new to Docker. Do folks really rely on public images and registries for production systems? Seems like a brittle strategy.

Yes, 1000s of orgs. Larger players might use a pull-through-cache - but it's not as common as it should be. Similar issue for other software-supply-chain (NPM, pyPi, etc)

Built something similar and it worked quite well. Gemini Flash models are very performant and low cost for these types of solutions.

Pretty cool, but nothing beats Swish if you're using a Macbook trackpad https://highlyopinionated.co/swish/

"Highly opinionated" indeed ;)

One reason I prefer Divvy^1 is that my custom keyboard shortcuts are usable whether typing directly the on laptop w/ trackpad, or (more frequently) on external keyboard.

1. https://mizage.com/divvy/

For me it's about the least amount of hand/wrist movement. Trackpad + Swish feels natural and reduces strain.

I took it for a spin spin to build a simple task manager. It worked for 45 minutes, built half the solution and then asked me for money. Compared to the other options in this space, it seems like an expensive solution.

What other options?

An entry level programming book? Building a basic task manager is a pretty straight forward task, it doesn't take much coding knowledge to do and is one that is often used as an example to teach programming.

Another simple solution works on LAN https://pairdrop.net/

Most people in the world only have a phone, no computer. Their window to software is the App Store or Play Store.