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Re: Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers

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Post by DrammBA » Tue, Mar 04, 2025, 10:02 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #12

pizzalife wrote: post #11

Cool project! Though I'd advise dialing down the edge factor.

Yeah, "Terminal-based AI coding retard" is unnecessary.

README is now less retarded as per author: https://github.com/dnakov/anon-kode/commit/320265694838fb2ae...

Re: Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers

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Post by kristopolous » Wed, Mar 05, 2025, 12:50 AM UTC

Look into goose¹ and aider² as well

[1] https://github.com/block/goose

[2] https://aider.chat/

Re: Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers

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Post by tcdent » Wed, Mar 05, 2025, 1:17 AM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #22

Look into goose¹ and aider² as well [1] https://github.com/block/goose [2] https://aider.chat/

As an aider devotee I am now all in on Claude Coder.

Was fun while it lasted.

Re: Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers

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Post by tcdent » Wed, Mar 05, 2025, 1:18 AM UTC

tasn wrote: post #16

Congrats on the launch! As someone who is ignorant and not following all of the recent releases. Isn't Claude-code a proprietary version of https://aider.chat/ in the first place?

Similar concept but entirely different implementation.

(aider is Python, Claude Coder is TypeScript, for one)

Re: Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers

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Post by haolez » Wed, Mar 05, 2025, 2:25 AM UTC

tcdent wrote: post #23

kristopolous wrote: post #22

Look into goose¹ and aider² as well [1] https://github.com/block/goose [2] https://aider.chat/

As an aider devotee I am now all in on Claude Coder. Was fun while it lasted.

Is it so much better? What's the difference? How does it do embeddings?

Re: Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers

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Post by haolez » Wed, Mar 05, 2025, 2:27 AM UTC

Maybe it's easier to just set up a proxy mirroring Anthropic's API, but pointing to whatever model you want? Genuine doubt.

Re: Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers

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Post by brianjking » Wed, Mar 05, 2025, 2:39 AM UTC

tcdent wrote: post #23

kristopolous wrote: post #22

Look into goose¹ and aider² as well [1] https://github.com/block/goose [2] https://aider.chat/

As an aider devotee I am now all in on Claude Coder. Was fun while it lasted.

Aider seems great unless you're constantly working in a ton of repos.

Re: Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers

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Post by tcdent » Wed, Mar 05, 2025, 2:45 AM UTC

haolez wrote: post #25

tcdent wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an aider devotee I am now all in on Claude Coder. Was fun while it lasted.

Is it so much better? What's the difference? How does it do embeddings?

- More polished UI. - Better tools. - Tighter integration with the model/prompt.

Re: Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers

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Post by npace12 » Wed, Mar 05, 2025, 3:22 AM UTC

haolez wrote: post #26

Maybe it's easier to just set up a proxy mirroring Anthropic's API, but pointing to whatever model you want? Genuine doubt.

It's not much different than your proxy idea. It's implemented as a transformation between the internal message structure (close to Anthropic API's) to OpenAI message spec and vice-versa. Then, it's calling all the other models using the openai-node client, as pretty much everyone supports that now (openrouter, ollama, etc)

Re: Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers

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Post by Terretta » Wed, Mar 05, 2025, 4:15 AM UTC

jillesvangurp wrote: post #19

tasn wrote: post #16

Congrats on the launch! As someone who is ignorant and not following all of the recent releases. Isn't Claude-code a proprietary version of https://aider.chat/ in the first place?

> Isn't Claude-code a proprietary version of https://aider.chat/ in the first place? It might be; but aider is Apache 2 licensed and I don't think Anthropic would be able to change the license. But either way, these tools are simple enough that it's not hard to replicate what they do. So simple that it's kind of pointless for Anthropic to get proprietary and protective about the whole thing. The moat they have is wit…

> Simple enough that it's not hard to replicate…

Yet the Product Hunt crowd mostly (a) hustle to ship each other's takes on feature innovations, (b) still fail to match each other's results.

There are under the hood differences, and whole is greater than the parts differences. Despite the arms race, most are not beating Aider effectiveness.