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Hi everyone, my partner, our 17-month-old daughter and I have recently moved back to Hobart after living here previously. I’m working full-time at UTAS and we’re currently looking for a long-term rental.

We’re already checking Realestate, Gumtree and Facebook groups, but I thought I’d ask locals if there are any other places worth looking, or if anyone happens to know of something becoming available.

Ideally 2–3 bedrooms, up to $600/week. Happy to look outside the CBD as well.

Thanks!

Has anyone here used pi seriously and compared it with OpenCode?

I’m curious about real usage, not just feature lists. For people who have tried both:

• Where does pi feel better?
• Where does OpenCode still win?
• How do they compare for agents, repo context, workflows, and day-to-day coding?
• Would you actually switch, or are they useful for different things?

I’ve been using OpenCode more lately, but pi looks interesting and I’m trying to understand if it solves a different problem or if it’s directly competing with OpenCode.

Has anyone here used pi seriously and compared it with OpenCode?

I’m curious about real usage, not just feature lists. For people who have tried both:

• Where does pi feel better?
• Where does OpenCode still win?
• How do they compare for agents, repo context, workflows, and day-to-day coding?
• Would you actually switch, or are they useful for different things?

I’ve been using OpenCode more lately, but pi looks interesting and I’m trying to understand if it solves a different problem or if it’s directly competing with OpenCode.

Hi everyone,

I’m moving back to Tasmania soon with my family and I’d love to get some local advice.

I’ve lived in Tasmania before, but always in Hobart, so I don’t really know the surrounding areas that well from a family/rural-living point of view.

We’re a family of 3, potentially 4 in the future. I’ll be working in Hobart in a hybrid role, so I’d still need to commute a few days a week, but we’d love to keep a similar lifestyle to what we currently have in Spain: a quiet place, some space for a veggie garden, and ideally being able to keep a few chickens.

We’re not looking for anything too remote, but we also don’t want to be right in the middle of the city if we can avoid it.

For people who know the area well, what suburbs/towns would you recommend looking at?

Things we care about:

• reasonable commute to Hobart
• good for a young family
• enough space for a garden/chickens
• not too isolated
• decent internet if possible

I’ve heard names like Kingston, Margate, Huonville, New Norfolk, Sorell, Richmond, etc., but I’d love to hear from people who actually live around those areas.

Any advice, areas to avoid, or things I should know before choosing would be really appreciated.

I’ve been using coding agents more and more lately, and honestly, one thing has started to bother me a bit.

Not because they are bad. Quite the opposite.

The problem is that they are good enough that I sometimes catch myself skipping the part where I actually think through the code properly.

So instead of trying to build a perfect workflow where the agent does everything for me, I’ve started creating prompts/commands that force me to stay involved.

One of them generates a learning path for a project by reading the repo and creating Markdown files by depth level. The idea is not “build this for me”, but more:

• explain the project structure
• identify the important files
• show real code snippets
• explain the main flows
• help me understand the codebase instead of just changing it blindly

Basically, I’m trying to use AI as a teacher/reviewer, not just as a code generator.

Has anyone else changed the way they use AI tools because of this fear?

I’m curious how people are keeping their actual programming skills sharp while still using agents seriously.

I’ve been trying to make my OpenCode setup a bit less “random prompt and hope for the best” and more structured.

Right now I’m experimenting with adding some OpenSpec / harness-style ideas into my config:

• clearer specs before touching code
• more explicit checks before considering a task done
• trying to make the setup easier to debug and improve over time

I’m still figuring out where the line is between “useful structure” and “I’m just overengineering my AI config because I’m a developer and I can’t help myself”.

Has anyone here tried something similar with OpenCode, Claude Code, Cursor, or any other coding agent?

Would love to see how people are structuring their configs, agents, specs or workflows.

I know macros are very personal and depend a lot on your workflow, layout, OS, editor, etc.

But I’m curious: what are the macros you actually use every day on your keyboard?

I recently got into split keyboards and I’m trying to get ideas beyond the obvious copy/paste/media keys stuff.

Anything that made your setup noticeably better?

I’m curious to see how people are actually setting up OpenCode in real projects.

Most examples I find are either very generic, hidden inside random GitHub repos, or scattered across Reddit comments. I’d like to see more real-world setups and understand what people are actually doing.

I started r/OpenCodeConfigs to collect this kind of stuff in one place, but I’m mostly interested in the discussion here too.

Would be great to see configs, repo links, screenshots, or even just a rough explanation of your setup.

I’m curious what terminal setup people are using to run OpenCode.

On Windows I’ve been using Warp, but lately I’ve had a few issues where it randomly closes, so I often end up falling back to plain PowerShell.

On Linux I usually use Ghostty or Alacritty and both feel more stable so far.

Are you using Warp, Ghostty, Alacritty, Windows Terminal, plain PowerShell, WSL, something else?

Also curious if anyone has noticed differences in stability when running OpenCode, especially with long agent sessions.

I’ve found two situations where my agents silently got stuck lately:

• Using models with very small context windows. No explicit error, they just… stopped progressing.
• Over-restricting permissions or misconfiguring them. For example asking an agent to modify files while it had no bash access.

I like the idea of strict permissions and I think they’re important, but sometimes I wonder if I’m overengineering the safety side and hurting reliability/workflow instead.

Curious if others building agent workflows have hit the same issue.

Anything you’d add? Any patterns, safeguards, or permission setups that have worked well for you?

Welcome to r/OpenCodeConfigs.

This subreddit is for developers using OpenCode who want to share and improve their configurations, agents, skills and workflows.

When posting your setup, try to include:

• What kind of projects you use it for
• Your main tech stack
• Which models you use
• Your agent structure
• Any custom skills or permissions
• What works well
• What still feels unreliable or experimental

The goal is not to show perfect configs. The goal is to learn from real ones.
The best ways to share your setup are:

• A public GitHub repository, if your setup includes multiple files, agents, skills or documentation
• A GitHub Gist, if you only want to share a single config, agent or skill
• A code block directly in the post, if the config is short or you want feedback on a specific part

Screenshots are fine for context, but please include the actual config whenever possible so others can read, copy, test and give useful feedback.

Share your setup, ask for feedback, and steal the good ideas.

Hey everyone,

I’m in a bit of a crossroads and would really appreciate some advice from people who’ve been there.

I live in Spain with my partner and our daughter. I work remotely, and for a while now we’ve had this idea stuck in our heads: move onto a sailboat and spend a few years exploring the Mediterranean, with the long-term dream of eventually going further… maybe even a circumnavigation one day.

The thing is, I’m still pretty new to sailing. I’m about to get my first license here in Spain, so I’m very much at the beginning of the journey.

Right now, the big question is what boat to buy.

We see two possible paths:

Option 1: Buy an older/smaller boat, no loan, live on it, learn a lot, and eventually sell it before upgrading.
Option 2: Take on some debt and go straight for something more solid and comfortable for long-term living and traveling (we’ve looked at boats like a Bavaria 42).

Initially I was convinced option 1 was the smart move. Lower risk, learn step by step, no financial pressure.

But recently we went to see a Jeanneau Sun Fizz 40 (1982), and after getting pretty excited about it, we found out the hull had osmosis. That kind of killed my confidence a bit. It made me wonder if going cheap/old might just mean burning money and time on problems instead of actually sailing.

So now I’m not so sure anymore.

Has anyone here been in a similar situation? Started with little experience and a family onboard, trying to choose between “starter boat” vs “buy once, cry once”?

Any advice, regrets, or things you wish you had done differently would really help.

Thanks a lot 😄