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> We saw what Claude Code looks like inside, and it's objectively bad-to-mediocre work Based on this, are there any open source harnesses that have objectively good-to-excellent work in their code?
pi.dev very minimal, extensible.
Anthropic would be better off letting the community do this. Their harness sucks. Great scientists but not the best app developers. I suspect they just dont want to relinquish control of anything because they think the world cant be trusted with AI, we can only be trusted to pay them.
I've been greatly enjoying jetbrain's air IDE for some tasks. it uses claude behind the scenes.
Excited to try it and surprised to find out about it in a random HN comment.
EDIT ADDED: bummer - looks like this only works with API keys, not Claude Pro or Max or similar for Codex
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? Anthropic made the most popular harness for developers. Anthropic made the most popular desktop tool for AI automation.
Not sure popularity necessarily suggests it's good, but possibly just what people have most heard of or is easiest to setup with. This is going to be even more true now that Claude subscriptions are going to be essentially vendor locked.
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? Anthropic made the most popular harness for developers. Anthropic made the most popular desktop tool for AI automation.
Not sure popularity necessarily suggests it's good, but possibly just what people have most heard of or is easiest to setup with. This is going to be even more true now that Claude subscriptions are going to be essentially vendor locked.
It makes sense that anthropic is cranking out these products trying to find and maintain a foothold in the market. But part of me just wishes they would go back to developing and refining an excellent and user-friendly harness. I can't imagine what the long term support is for the dozens of products they release every three months. Meanwhile, they're shipping a more and more buggy and Byzantine Claude code with a mil…
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I've been greatly enjoying jetbrain's air IDE for some tasks. it uses claude behind the scenes.
Wow - as a JetBrains customer I've been waiting for JetBrains to show what a good Agentic IDE should look like. Excited to try it and surprised to find out about it in a random HN comment. EDIT ADDED: bummer - looks like this only works with API keys, not Claude Pro or Max or similar for Codex