Agreed. I've been trying to use opencode and crush, and none of them do anything useful for me. In contrast, claude code "just works" and does genuinely useful work. And it's not just because of the specific LLM used, it's the overall engineering of the tool, the prompt behind the scenes, etc.
But the bottom line is that I still can't find a way to use either local LLMs and/or opencode and crush for coding.
Which is very sad and perhaps she should be aiming to introduce some very smart linguists into the whole ML:LLM thing that can learn and explore how to best to interact with the funny archive that models are.
So my guess would be - we need open conversation or something along the line of "useful linguistic-AI approaches for combing and grooming code"