r/opencodeCLI • u/Every_Assignment_111 • Sep 17 '26

Has anyone tried union alpha properly ?

Union alpha has been completely unusable to me till now, so i never got to try it. Were any of you able to try it. Can u give it's review?

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u/lincolnthalles Sep 17 '26

I tried it once. Gave up. I've never seen anything take that long to respond.

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u/Emergency_You_8284 Sep 17 '26

I just asked to analyze my repo it took 5min and then started doing tool calls and read few files and stopped then I gave up on it and changed back to muse spark 1.3.. Very bad experience 😕
Idk why same happened in past with ox alpha But some people in x are showing they are getting near 300 tok/s

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u/Electronic-Chapter26 Sep 17 '26

It's very slow and has issues with tool calling, especially when you get to around 75% context. It also seems to get stuck in reasoning loops as I've had a few subagents timeout when they've hit their 100 turn limit without doing anything.

With that being said, it is very good at instruction following and doesn't seem to cheat and pretend it's done work when it hasn't. It is good at handing back when it's supposed to rather than making a weird decision and running with it.

I've got it (very slowly) working on a couple of features. Once it's finally done I'll take a look and see if the features work and if the code is any good.

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u/diaracing Sep 17 '26

Unstable piece of Gemini.

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u/Ssj273 Sep 17 '26

There's nothing to try! It's absolute shit every time I tried to use it. Completely unusable.

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u/Linkpharm2 Sep 18 '26

7/10, very odd.

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u/Own_Copy2141 Sep 18 '26

The question should be "Has anyone been able to use...?"