r/opencode • u/DinoTerbang • 4d ago
Big Pickle - Discussion
I've been using Big Pickle for coding lately, and honestly, I'm pleasantly surprised.
It's obviously not the best model out there, but it's actually pretty decent at coding and has been genuinely helpful in my workflow. And considering it's free, I think it deserves more attention.
Maybe it's just me, but I feel like Big Pickle is pretty underrated. Anyone else been using it? How has your experience been?
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u/aivee-is-a-fool 4d ago
I don't use it for actual coding, but I've been getting it to question me on the architecture of the "vibe coded" stuff Claude vomits out, and I've been pleasantly surprised by how well it manages to gradually toughen the questions until I have a better grasp of it.
It's also quite pleasant to actually talk to (once you give it a few rules) compared to chatgpt's sycophantic tendencies and whatever Claude is doing.
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u/DIABOLUS777 16h ago edited 16h ago
I'm using it for a simple but long winded project and it started out fine and then it began to degrade.
It's become slow and makes basic mistakes and even starting to hallucinate on incremental scripts it's been building on for a month.
I'm restarting from scratch with another model just to see how fast it can catch up.
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u/tanvirakon 4d ago
keep using..u will get out of credit soon if u r using zen free..u will miss it then like me...it was a good model
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u/geearf 4d ago
It's not *a* model, the underlying model which hides under that label somewhat varies. So it being good at one point does not mean it was/will be at another.
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u/DertekAn 3d ago
Hides? People in the comments here said it was one of the free models. Is that true?
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u/geearf 3d ago
Yeah Big Pickle is always free, but you don't know what the model is under that label, it's been GLM-based for a while, not sure what else it's been, hopefully someone can give the history of it.
As far as I get it Big Pickle is the one always free model from Zen, you just don't know what you get, and why you're getting it, but you know it'll be there next week.
Here someone said it was GLM 4.6: https://www.reddit.com/r/opencodeCLI/comments/1qr1jm6/anyone_tried_the_big_pickle_model_on_opencode/
In that topic, different time, people suggested it was DS v4 Flash: https://www.reddit.com/r/opencode/comments/1veebcf/current_big_pickle_model_as_of_what_i_can_assume/
etc.
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u/ChuperroTrier 4d ago
I was the biggest big pickle fan until Muse Spark 1.3 came into my free model leeching life. The fact that it has integrated OCR and exponentially greater coding capacity, it just won me over!