Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

Post by mylons » Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 5:36 PM UTC

citizenpaul wrote: post #84

jsnell wrote: post #59

I find it strange how most of these terminal-based AI coding agents have ended up with these attempts at making text UIs flashy. Tons of whitespace, line art, widgets, ascii art and gradients, and now apparently animations. And then what you don't get is the full suite of expected keybindings, tab completion, consistent scrollback, or even flicker-free text rendering. (At least this one seems to not be written with n…

Well this specific tool is by a company called Charm that has the mission statment of making the command line glamerous. They have been around for several years prior to the LLM craze. They make a CLI framework for golang along with tools for it.

Post by beacon294 » Fri, Aug 01, 2025, 3:27 AM UTC

dedpool wrote: post #144

This one feels refreshing. It’s written in Go, and the TUI is pretty slick. I’ve been running Qwen Coder 3 on a GPU cluster with 2 B200s at $2 per hour, getting 320k context windows and burning through millions of tokens without paying closed labs for API calls.

Post by jdbohrman » Fri, Aug 01, 2025, 1:16 PM UTC

jrm4 wrote: post #193

wglb wrote: post #157

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Out of curiosity, why is that?

Yup, similar to other comment. I fear that todays kids are too compliant on everything; the script kiddie ethos at the time still wasn't primarily clear fraud, just chaos. Which, yeah, I think we could use a little of that now.

Post by cwlb » Fri, Aug 01, 2025, 5:04 PM UTC

jimmcslim wrote: post #166

alixanderwang wrote: post #159

Played around with it for a serious task for 15 mins. Compared to Claude Code: Pros: - Beautiful UI - Useful sidebar, keep track of changed files, cost - Better UX for accepting changes (has hotkeys, shows nicer diff) Cons: - Can't combine models. Claude Code using a combination of Haiku for menial search stuff and Sonnet for thinking is nice. - Adds a lot of unexplained junk binary files in your directory. It's prob…

> The initial init makes some CHARM.md Oh god please no... can we please just agree on a standard for a well-known single agent instructions file, like AGENT.md [1] perhaps (and yes, this is the standard being shilled by Amp for their CLI tool, I appreciate the irony there). Otherwise we rely on hacks like this [2] [1] https://ampcode.com/AGENT.md [2] https://kau.sh/blog/agents-md/

Post by daliusd » Sat, Aug 02, 2025, 11:04 AM UTC

beacon294 wrote: post #224

rane wrote: post #89

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Aider is not agentic.

Could you provide some specific details about what is missing? I've been super busy studying and haven't been able to keep up with the gap between Aider and other tools. thank you!