The bigger point is that the codebase is hopelessly bloated by vibe coded features at this point, mirroring the same problems with Claude Code. And stability, performance, memory use have all gotten terrible.

I liked Opencode a lot previously but there's no doubt it's not well-written software. Pi has fully replaced it for me and there are quite a few newer options that learned from Opencode and exercise more minimalism where it matters

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JeremyNT 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I keep seeing these conceptual complaints about OpenCode but it's unreasonably effective, so it's difficult to justify any time spent in changing to something else.

It hardly matters that it's vibe coded and ugly if it works well... and it does (for me).

Saving a few CPU cycles and reducing RAM utilization on my local system isn't going to meaningfully improve anything in and of itself; the wall time is all bounded by the model or by the code it's invoking (i.e. compiling or running the test suite).

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snapplebobapple a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Got a link? Pi is suitably as to make search engines questionable

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embedding-shape 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For the future, adding the related concepts/themes around hard to search for terms tend to do the trick. Instead of searching "go" for example, do "go programming language". Or instead of "pi", do "pi agent" or even "pi llm".

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georgemcbay 20 hours ago | parent [-]

While this is a generally useful suggestion you are giving, for Go in specific you can just use "golang".

All of the major search engines have understood that as a stand-in for "Go the programming language" for many years.

	▲	reddit_clone 15 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah. That is a sore point. It has overridden a 4000 year old strategy board game played by millions (mostly Asians).
	▲	dminik 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		"golang" is literally "Go language". Doesn't matter that it's one word.

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dofm a day ago | parent | prev [-]

pi.dev

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dofm a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I am on this trajectory too; opencode got me started but I tried to understand the way it is working and to do that I would normally read the source code, but the source code is really not fun.

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trollbridge 21 hours ago | parent [-]

This seems to be quite common. You start with OpenCode (assuming you're someone who skips all the Claude Code hype); then you start thirsting for more, and switch to oh-my-pi.

I generally view the kind of code in projects like OpenCode to be the same as binary machine code, and the harness that works on it is the compiler. The source code is the prompts (I guess), except we live in a weird state now we use the existing machine code + more prompts to make even more machine code.

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schmorptron 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, this has been my progression as well. Maybe next it'll be just using plain pi when you figured out exactly what you want from omp and what you don't

	▲	vdomi 19 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I like how browser and websearch is handled in omp. But I only like these two features, it might be time for me to actually spend some time with pi
	▲	samplifier 17 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No one here started with Aider? Or even text-generation-webui? Or SillyTavern? Or were they too pseudo-agentic? :)

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alightsoul a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can you name a few? I'm looking for alternatives

	▲	polski-g a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Pi or Dirge
	▲	dominotw a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		write your own using pi.
	▲	cmrdporcupine 21 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		OpenAI's Codex tool is not limited to only calling their models. You can create a profile that uses any OpenAI API compatible endpoint. It's written in Rust. It seems to perform well. It also seems (from my poking around in it) on the whole well and deliberately written. It doesn't consume memory like a mf'er like Claude Code. It doesn't sit and chew background CPU like I've seen opencode. I suspect it will accumulate more specific-to-OpenAI-isms over time though.

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OleksandrC 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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