Ioannou runs an internal company agent on OpenCode 1.18.31 (his deployment, not a benchmark). Token use was climbing faster than sessions or automations could explain.
In the News: October 27, 2026 (Extra 2)
One MCP integration carried about 69% of an internal agent's 177,444-token "hi", and OpenCode's Code Mode cut that to 13,274.
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Cheap implementation raised one engineer's workload
Ioannou pulled his GitHub contribution counts, private work included, for every month from January 2019. As Principal Engineer he averaged 114 contributions a month from August 2022 to July 2025, against 173 as a full-stack engineer.