I just realised how good GLM 5 is
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Generative AI
This is crazy. As a heavy Claude code user, who has used over 12B tokens in the last few months, and never tried local coding, I finally decided to try OpenCode with the Zen plan and GLM 5. Initially tried Kimi K2.5 but it was not good at all. Did a test to see how far 1-2 prompts could get me with GLM 5 versus the same prompt in Claude Code. First task, a simple dashboard inventory tracker. About equal although Claude code with opus 4.6 came out ahead. Then I ran a harder task. Real time chat application with web socket. Much to my surprise, GLM comes out ahead.