Mixed
Claude has a tendency to do too much
guywithahat on Hacker News
In the thread “Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k”
Helped: Having an alternative to nothing at work.
Got in the way: Claude adds unwanted tests and over-engineers simple solutions.
… I've been using codex and grok build at home, and they're both faster and in some cases better. Claude has a tendency to do too much. If I don't ask for unit tests and they're not in my agents.md file, then I probably don't want them. …