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Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

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Post by airbreather »

this is fucking awesome

it is fast, there is no fucking gateway fuckaround or any other similar issues, up and going in seconds

straight away I added two skills, that it wrote for itself, read my gmails and attachments, and browse the web, text browser first up, render page and screenshot with OCR for javascript heavy pages\

then I asked it, find the best value ram in my area, second hand as well as new, try gumtree and facebook marketplace, plus anything else relevant, bam - 15 seconds maybe a concise summarised range of options

then on another project, I told it to /study and then used the gmail plugin to access all the relevant gmails and attachments (which included minutes of all the meetings) and it was fully up to date with the project I am working on and ready to go

best agent I have used so far by a country mile, if you don't try it then that is your loss

did I mention it was fast, like 3x to 5x better productivity fast compared to openclaw, at least

one thing it does not do is support the up arrow/down arrow to scroll thru past commands, but you can just tell it, "run that websearch for ram again" etc, i will totally live witht his for all the other positives

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

#3

Post by patriceckhart »

airbreather wrote: post #2

this is fucking awesome it is fast, there is no fucking gateway fuckaround or any other similar issues, up and going in seconds straight away I added two skills, that it wrote for itself, read my gmails and attachments, and browse the web, text browser first up, render page and screenshot with OCR for javascript heavy pages\ then I asked it, find the best value ram in my area, second hand as well as new, try gumtree…

Thanks for the feedback! Since version 0.1.44, you can use the left/right arrow keys to jump through the "History".

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

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Post by helloplanets »

tipiirai wrote: post #4

Thought Claude models can only be used through Claude Code. I was wrong, I guess.

If you use API billing, you can use them from anywhere. But using Claude Code with a Max subscription is massively cheaper for programming. You should never use Claude models for programming through API billing, unless forced. The difference will easily rack up to thousands of dollars for heavy users.

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

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Post by ramon156 »

helloplanets wrote: post #5
tipiirai wrote: post #4

Thought Claude models can only be used through Claude Code. I was wrong, I guess.

If you use API billing, you can use them from anywhere. But using Claude Code with a Max subscription is massively cheaper for programming. You should never use Claude models for programming through API billing, unless forced. The difference will easily rack up to thousands of dollars for heavy users.

ACP still exists, not sure why no one other than Zed is using it. Its best of both worlds, because you're using their CLI but in another tool

Re: Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness

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Post by jshreder »

ramon156 wrote: post #7
helloplanets wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you use API billing, you can use them from anywhere. But using Claude Code with a Max subscription is massively cheaper for programming. You should never use Claude models for programming through API billing, unless forced. The difference will easily rack up to thousands of dollars for heavy users.

ACP still exists, not sure why no one other than Zed is using it. Its best of both worlds, because you're using their CLI but in another tool

With the coming changes in June, ACP will charge towards the same budget as claude -p and the Claude Code SDK (since it uses the SDK), so ACP no longer solves this. It's (I think) why Zed added "Terminal Threads" [1] to their agent workflow

1: https://zed.dev/blog/terminal-threads

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