The big question - which one of these new agents can consume local models to a reasonable degree? I would like to ditch the dependency on external APIs - willing to trade some performance in lieu.
sst/opencode
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#22I don't get why terminal agents are so popular of late. Having spent more than a decade in terminal based development (vi*), and now fully moved over to a real IDE (vs code), it seems bonkers to me. The IDE is so much more... integrated
it's the flexibility, no need for packaged extensions, just compose / pipe / etc..
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#23Charmbracelet is amazing. Will there be an equivalent of Claude Code's CLAUDE.md files?
Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal
#24I don't get why terminal agents are so popular of late. Having spent more than a decade in terminal based development (vi*), and now fully moved over to a real IDE (vs code), it seems bonkers to me. The IDE is so much more... integrated
> a real IDE (vs code)
Much better to use Neovim than a very clunky slow editor like VS Code or Jetbrains just to edit a text file.
The keyboard is far faster than clicking everywhere with the mouse.
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#25I don't get why terminal agents are so popular of late. Having spent more than a decade in terminal based development (vi*), and now fully moved over to a real IDE (vs code), it seems bonkers to me. The IDE is so much more... integrated
Neo(lazy)vim user here.. not sure what I'm missing from IDE... Language server, check, Plugin ecosystem, check, Running tests on demand, check. lua sucks but that's an acceptable compromise as vimscript is worse.
I was neovim in the end, 100% agree lua is so much better than vimscript, but now I don't need either. I spend no time trying to match what an IDE can do in the terminal and get to spend that time building the things I'm actually interested in. I recalled Linus saying the reason he (at the time) used Fedora was because it just worked and he could spend his time on the kernel instead of tinkering to get linux working. This is one of the biggest reasons I stopped using (neo)vim
I had lots of problems with plugins in the ecosystem breaking, becoming incompatible with others, or often falling into unmaintained status. Integrations with external SaaS services are much better too
Also information density (and ease of access) as a peer comment has mentioned
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#26They mention FreeBSD support in the README so that adds a couple points
All of Charmbracelet's open source stuff is Go-based, which supports a bunch of platforms.
Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal
#27The big question - which one of these new agents can consume local models to a reasonable degree? I would like to ditch the dependency on external APIs - willing to trade some performance in lieu.
Most of these agents work with any OpenAI compatible endpoints.
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#28Woah I love the UI. Compared to the other coding agents I've used (eg. Claude Code, aider, opencode) this feels like the most enjoyable to use so far..
Anyone try switching LLM providers with it yet? That's something I've noticed to be a bit buggy with other coding agents
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neo(lazy)vim user here.. not sure what I'm missing from IDE... Language server, check, Plugin ecosystem, check, Running tests on demand, check. lua sucks but that's an acceptable compromise as vimscript is worse.
Mice are good and the terminal doesn't make the best use of the information density possible on modern displays.
You can use a mouse with a terminal.
Also one could argue that you opt into your own level of information density.
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#30sucks that i can't use any of these because claude code has me in golden handcuffs. I don't care about the cli but for a hobbyist i can't afford to call llm apis directly.