Using an open model feels surprisingly good

使用开源模型的感觉出奇地好

July 27, 2026 I’ve been using Claude and ChatGPT like the next guy for probably two years now. I’ve never been a huge “open software” nerd or anything like that. But just now, I got opencode working on my own inference endpoint and… it felt surprisingly good. 2026年7月27日。像其他人一样，我使用 Claude 和 ChatGPT 大概已经两年了。我从来都不是那种狂热的“开源软件”极客。但就在刚才，我成功在自己的推理端点上运行了 opencode，那种感觉……出奇地好。

It feels… freeing, somehow. I own the endpoint, and my data just goes from my laptop to there and back. It feels like it’s mine. It’s really nice. 这种感觉……不知为何，让人感到自由。我拥有这个端点，我的数据只是在我的笔记本电脑和它之间往返。感觉这一切都是属于我的。这种体验真的很棒。

The motivation for this was that I just got home and wanted to start on a little side project, but I don’t have the best Claude or ChatGPT plan for my personal account. I work at Modal, and today we just launched Kimi K3 on managed endpoints, and I know Kimi K3 is supposed to be pretty solid, so instead of upgrading my Claude plan, I wanted to give it a try. (I didn’t directly contribute to this feature, so I haven’t gotten to play with it yet.) 我这么做的动机是，我刚回到家，想开始一个小型的副业项目，但我个人账户里并没有订阅 Claude 或 ChatGPT 的高级套餐。我在 Modal 工作，今天我们刚刚在托管端点上发布了 Kimi K3，我知道 Kimi K3 的表现应该相当稳健，所以与其升级我的 Claude 套餐，我决定试一试它。（我没有直接参与这个功能的开发，所以之前还没机会体验。）

Within about 5 minutes, I had opencode pointed at my own Modal endpoint and running. Spinning up opencode, I just felt a nice, empty blankness. The best way I can describe it is like opening vim after spinning a bunch of time in a big fancy编辑器. Or maybe like the tendrils tying me to other providers had been cut, and I could breathe freely. 大约 5 分钟内，我就将 opencode 指向了我自己的 Modal 端点并运行了起来。启动 opencode 时，我感受到了一种美妙的、空灵的纯粹感。最好的描述方式是：就像在大型花哨的编辑器里折腾了半天后，终于打开了 vim。又或者像是束缚我与其他服务提供商之间的藤蔓被切断了，我可以自由地呼吸。

I’m being somewhat dramatic here but not exaggerating that much. It’s weird, lol, and unexpected to me, which is why I wanted to write about it. 我这里说得有点戏剧化，但并没有太夸张。这感觉很奇怪，哈哈，而且出乎我的意料，这就是我想写下这段经历的原因。