who said they are unable to work? This meme is so old and overused.

They laugh about LLMs hallucinating, but themselves hallucinate the facts that don’t exist all the time.

Me thinks the lady doth protest too much

I get calling opencode a hack, but actually looking at the product claude code is the hack compared to opencode for real

if you are looking for a resource for this, I did this exact thing last year through pikuma that man is the best software teacher online I have come across. Highly recommend his 3D software renderer course.

I agree 100% gustavo is such a great teacher. i tried scratchapixel before and its nice but it was with pikuma that everything finally clicked.

Gustavo here. Thank you for the mention!

Wow did not expect to get a thank you from the legend himself! Thank you for your great courses and the care and effort you put into them sir! :D

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.