Review: Why Orchestrator Agent Frameworks Are a Waste of Tokens
dupa1234s · reddit · 2026-08-29
The author reviews opencode TUI, praising its hotkeys, session status bar, and git diff display as the only non-annoying AI coding interface. They strongly criticize the "orchestrator agent" trend as a "deaf telephone game" that spends 10x tokens for 1.1x quality, advocating for writing modal agents and skills directly instead of relying on complex orchestration layers.
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