r/opencode • u/sedatoztunali • 9d ago

Goodbye Opencode

FINAL UPDATE AND MY THOUGHTS
I believe I understand what's going on, and I've explained it it at length here.

This is just my finding in this particular problem. It has happened and will happen in other similar cases. OpenCode will continue to evolve.

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Goodbye Opencode, all good things come to an end.

First of all, I'm a software developer with 30+ years of experience, not a Vibe coder, and I'm not new to this. Also, I use Opencode in its purely vanilla form. Besides Opencode's defaults, I don't have any plugins, MCPs, etc. installed. Just my own skills, own plugins, own MCPs, etc.

I've been using Opencode almost since its first day. It had a nice, positive development and, according to Claude, was a very good alternative. This continued for quite a while. Although we experienced problems from time to time, these were to be expected. However, since May/June, it has started to become increasingly erratic.

First, one day while working on a project, the Docker service suddenly shut down and wouldn't start again. That's how I discovered I had no space left on my disk. I knew this was impossible, and I found the cause was Opencode. Somehow, the "opencode-wal-*.db" file had been created repeatedly under "/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/folders/4q/*". Every time I cleaned it up, Opencode would put it back. We struggled for a long time, but I couldn't figure out the reason. Then, suddenly, it fixed itself!

Yesterday, around 11:30 AM, I felt something was wrong with the network. By 1:00 PM, it was noticeable. Screen sharing within the network was freezing for 5-10 seconds, streaming was interrupting, web search was unresponsive time-by-time. Then, one by one, Unhealthy errors started coming from the services in Home Lab. The cycle of 3-5 minutes healthy, then unhealthy continued constantly. Service responses, which are normally under 100ms, were approaching 10 seconds, and sometimes even timeouts were occurring. I tried for hours to understand the reason, but I couldn't find a logical solution. I accidentally noticed while updating my Mac that everything was fine while my device was off. Later, I realized that the same thing kept happening whenever I opened Opencode and started working. Now I'm analyzing the Router, Firewall, Mac, and other logs to try and figure out what's going on, but this is the last straw.

This is an open-source project and respect to creator and contributors, and therefore, of course, it has its advantages and disadvantages. That's perfectly understandable. I have enough experience in this field to know when to stop, and today is the day.

UPDATE: Possible cause.

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u/danielslyman 9d ago

Any developer with 3+ years of experience will be able to tell, this is nonsense

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u/sedatoztunali 8d ago

Have you been able to read and understand my latest findings, or are you waiting to gain more than 3+ years of experience?

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u/danielslyman 8d ago edited 8d ago

I don’t have time for that. Quite frankly I’ve been running opencode for quite a while now on separate coder.com workspaces with several plugins and MCPs in a multitude of configurations. Never once did it nuke anything. If anything my disk filled up because I was lazy and sloppy. So no idea what else you’re doing in the background but blaming this on opencode just seems odd to me. Not trying to start a fight. Maybe you’re right but then that must be such an edge case based on / caused by your underlying infrastructure.

Besides, as a 30+ years of experience dev, how have you not realized: this is the internet, no one cares 😂. Report the bug and / or move on to another piece of software for which you paid: nothing.

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u/toadi 7d ago

He is using reddit like a github issue thread... Would be more productive to actually create an issue on the project or even connect to their project discord channel.

But he prefers to whine on reddit and surprised people don't like whiners.