#OpenCode

Copilot started with per-message pricing. Cursor promised unlimited. Now everything is token-based credits and rolling session windows. Here's how we got here — and why your subscription works the way it does.

Everyone's arguing about which model tops the benchmarks. Nobody's talking about the thing that actually decides whether your agent works — the harness wrapped around it. Here's what's inside one, why it matters more than the model, and why you're already building them without knowing it.

Everyone's fixated on the $200 and $100 AI subscriptions. Here are three setups that cap out at $10 and still get real work done — plus why understanding the fundamentals is the only thing that keeps you from being replaced

I ran GLM 5.2 as my daily coding agent in OpenCode for a month — full OpenCode Go subscription, wired in as my Hermes agent. It fixed real performance and battery bugs in my macOS app Vitals (CPU ~89% down to ~13%, 143/143 tests passing) for a few dollars a session. But it can't see screenshots, it's a token glutton, and on pay-per-token it burned through $10–20 of Fireworks credits fast. Here's the honest month-long review: what it's great at, where it falls apart, and why at ~$10 nothing else touches it for coding.