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by ojosilva 270 days ago
Opencode, been there, it has a Cerebras/qwen-coder out of the box preset! Unfortunately I found the TUI somewhat clunky, I dislike text windows and the terminal scrolling was not available, it was enclosed into the current viewport. One of the features of working in a CLI is that it's scrollable - maybe there's a setting for that?

Also it had some cutoffs with Cerebras - every once in a while it will get a reply then nothing happens, just stops there. I think 4xx errors weren't handled well either. Same happens with Codex with a Cerebras provider. Unfortunately there isn't a compelling reason for me to debug that, although I like that Codex is now Rust and OSS, much more fun than decompiling Claude for sure.

That said, I liked that it has sessions, undo and Plan x Code modes ("build" I think it was called), although that's already a non-pattern for most coding agents, it allows me to have say a OpenAI API o3 or gpt-5 to do some paid planning. But even that is not needed with something like Cerebras that just shoots code out of its butt like there's no tomorrow. Just rinse and repeat until it gets it right.

EDIT: just recalled another thing about opencode that messed me up: no exiting on ctrl-d blows up my mental unix cognition.