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In ‘Next Generation Tooling for Developers’ I wondered how these venture-backed companies would make money. Since then most of them have been acquired: Anthropic bought Oven, the company behind Bun; Cloudflare bought Astro and VoidZero; and OpenAI bought Astral.

OpenCode is the open-source agentic CLI tool that both Anthropic and Google moved to block from their subscription APIs. Here’s a hands-on look at what makes it genuinely different, and whether it’s worth switching from Claude Code.