This article makes sense it really does, but its not the full picture. I think there are different modalities to enjoying programming. I wrote a long post about this a couple of months ago that goes way more into detail than I could ever write up in a HN comment. article: https://handmadeoasis.com/ai-and-software-engineering-the-co...

This sounds very intriguing, any resources around this approach you can point me towards?

I wrote a quickie on this, I should revisit the topic soon with a more in depth demonstration. https://sibylline.dev/articles/2025-10-04-hacking-claude-cod...

Awesome thank you looks like a great intro to the idea at least

Pikuma.com writes a software renderer pretty much from scratch with all the necessary math and explanations in a very pedagogical way. Highly recommend it

I can highly recommend this course, i finished it. It's one of those code katas to learn a new language with a bit like Raytracing in one weekend.

I concur with the other commenters, 4.5 is a clear improvement over 4.

As a counter point to this. I have been using opencode for months and it has been stable for me. Also on linux and tried it on alacritty, ghostty and kitty works without a problem in all of them. To me its as good as claude code but i have spent some time tinkering with it and set stuff up the way i like and developed some plugins i needed for it also.

Cool. Thanks for the tip. I gave alacritty a try and that seems to work fine. I'm probably not going to adopt a different terminal program just to use opencode, but at least I can give it a fair evaluation in isolation now. If and when they get it working with Konsole, I may make it a more common part of my workflow.

Still messing around with Codex as well, of course.

Yeah. I think that the experience degrades a lot on Windows

Work on side projects or plan the next step with another agent is what I usually do. For example I have been learning and coding in golang lately while llm does some grunt work for work tickets, I love it

This is exactly what I experienced as well a few weeks back and wrote about here: https://handmadeoasis.com/ai-and-software-engineering-the-co...

Essentially it boils down to what kind of programmer you are and what about the craft of software engineering you enjoy.

Just use gh_grep mcp and the model will fetch what it needs if you tell it to, no need to download from GitHub manually like this

This looks really cool and I love the idea but I will stick with opencode run ”query” and for specific agents which have specific models, I can just configure that also in an agent.md then add opencode run ”query” -agent quick

I think it is more about what it doesn’t do. It is not a coding agent. It is a lightweight assistant, Unix style “Do One Thing and Do It Well”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

Something like opencode probably, that’s what I have been using to freely and very easily switch between models and keep all my same workflows. It’s phenomenal really