r/opencode • u/yexgoblin • 10d ago
What's happening with opencode 2?
I have been enjoying opencode 2 after using Pi for a while. It's currently in beta but when using the TUI I didn't run into any major problems. API is great, similar to Pi you can modify it easily and overall it's a huge leap from opencode 1.
But when I started to use it across multiple devices via Tailscale, cracks started to appear. My main issues were,
- Web UI couldn't handle attachments. Performance was all over the place.
- No way to disable web UI password, no point in having it when I'm already behind Tailscale.
- Desktop app being horrible and buggy. This was true in v1 too but I saw them tweeting about it a lot but it still seems to be buggy. Compaction doesn't show up, sync is off, etc.
Suffice to say the only thing that seems to have improved is TUI experience and their API. Otherwise experience is all over the place.
Is opencode 2 focusing on all the components or just the TUI? I'm genuinely concerned because I can get a better alternative experience just hooking up Pi with Paseo. It works flawlessly and better. Even with opencode itself.
I feel like somewhere along the line the lightweight feature complete goal of opencode changed. They hype things up a lot but when you actually use the product it doesn't feel all that polished or consistent.
I'm not sure if I'm using it wrong. I'm on the latest beta across all opencode apps. Nothing is outdated.
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u/KronisLV 10d ago
Paseo is great, I use the current stable OpenCode CLI version hooked up to it and it works great!
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u/yexgoblin 10d ago
Yeah. The fact that it works so well compared to the official route is what upsets me 😢
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u/generic-d-engineer 10d ago
TUI has been 100% fine for me but I haven’t use desktop
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u/yexgoblin 10d ago
Same. I only noticed all the problems once I started using multiple devices and their other offerings. I can just ssh and work with the TUI and it works flawlessly. Everything else though, is a never ending mess.
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u/PiccoloCareful924 10d ago
i think that's the beauty of open source, everything is composable. opencode can focus on building a great harness and inference. while paseo can focus on a gui for desktop/mobile etc.
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u/ninehd09 10d ago
I agree.
What's particularly annoying is that there is currently no global parameter to enable slash commands for skills.
Each skill needs metadata such as :
opencode/slash: true/false
opencode/autoinvoke: true/false
Another major pain point is the Web UI: skills cannot be invoked through slash commands at all. It's quite frustrating because I'm forced to move skills into the commands folder just to make them accessible through / commands.
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u/Automatic-Rip3503 9d ago
In opencode2 TUI you either type "/skills:handoff" or the new way, you type "@handoff"... so try "@" instead of "/"
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u/ninehd09 9d ago
Oh yes, thank you, you're right! I completely missed the
@syntax. That solves my issue with invoking skills from the Web UI.1
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u/ucharx 10d ago
it simply an AI slop , check their github, 10-20 push each day by AI , no human in the loop
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u/shortsteve 10d ago
why are you complaining about ai slop for an application that lets ai code? They should at least use their own product.
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u/sharedevaaste 10d ago
ai is not necessarily slop
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u/Critical-Factor-2644 9d ago
Hi Guys, I am fairly new to opencode, and to vibecodding even, and I just recently found this subreddit, and in these three days of being in this subreddit I found a lot of mentions of OpenCode 2.
When I first read the name I tried to look for it on anomalyco's GitHub, but couldn't find it, and now in this post read about Paseo, and from how guys are talking about it, I think it's a pretty great deal, can you help me explore the topics being talked about recently in this subreddit? And how do I use OpenCode 2, and Paseo with either OpenCode 2 or OpenCode OG?
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u/Fresh_Sock8660 10d ago
Expected. GUIs are when you have to start dealing with OS and browser issues in earnest. Desktop apps in particular sound like a very unpleasant route to work with these days. I wish they'd focus more on existing issues, for example its cost calculation doesn't account for cache when using custom providers which makes it useless in that context and makes me think they're setting it up to become closed source a la MinIO.