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Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by rane »

beacon294 wrote: post #224
rane wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Aider will follow through a single, rather specific request, from the user, which will generally result in changes one or more files that you need to explicitly add to the context.

Claude Code on the other hand, based on user's request, is capable of:

- researching the codebase to understand what needs to be done

- planning a TODO list for itself

- implementing the TODO list item by item

- running tests or typecheck etc. and iterating until checks pass

Basically if you give a sufficiently detailed plan as markdown to CC, it is capable of autonomously implementing the plan from start to finish, and that could even take something like 20 minutes.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by apwell23 »

MrGreenTea wrote: post #205
anonzzzies wrote: post #41

Another one, but indeed very nice looking. Will definitely be testing it. What I miss from all of these (EDIT: I see opencode has this for github) is the lack of being able to authenticate with the monthly paid services; github copilot, claude code, openai codex, cursor etc etc That would be the best addition; I have these subscriptions and might not like their interfaces, so it would be nice to be able to switch.

I don't think most of these allow other tools to "use" the monthly subscription. Because of that you need an API key and have to pay per tokens. Even Claude code for a while did not use your Claude subscription.

Opencode does

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by beacon294 »

daliusd wrote: post #229
beacon294 wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

E.g. aider does not support MCP https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/issues/3314 I personally found MCP a must for some scenarios

Do you mind sharing your anecdote about mcp being useful? I haven't had time to experiment and I'm trying to learn from others time on the grind stone.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by mccoyb »

backscratches wrote: post #215
mccoyb wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're talking about the wrong company. This is not the company you think it is. These are the creators of `bubbletea`, a popular TUI framework in Go.

it is the same company

Thanks, you're right -- I was wrong.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by case »

breuleux wrote: post #128
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…

What bothers me is that what I like about terminals is the scrolling workflow of writing commands and seeing my actions and outputs from various sources and programs sequentially in a log. So what I want is a rich full-HTML multi-program scrolling workflow. Instead, people are combining the worst of both worlds. What are they doing? Give me superior UI in a superior rendering system, not inferior UI in an inferior re…

This sounds kinda like https://sketch.dev/

Cc @crawshaw

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by DrSarez »

surrTurr wrote: post #3

looks cool - has anyone compared it to opencode[^1] yet? [1]: https://github.com/sst/opencode

Crush (compared to OpenCode): - Pro: Sexy UI with separate diff window and good information context - Con: No SSO with Antropic. You need to generate an API key - Con: No login with Github Copilot - Con: Rly bad planning capabilities as agend. Acts awskwardly, executes single commands instead of batch commands. - Con: Thus it is really slow. - Con: Uses much more tokens for operations than OpenCode

Currently I would definately go with sst/opencode. Seems like crush is much more a beta.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by daliusd »

beacon294 wrote: post #233
daliusd wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

E.g. aider does not support MCP https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/issues/3314 I personally found MCP a must for some scenarios

Do you mind sharing your anecdote about mcp being useful? I haven't had time to experiment and I'm trying to learn from others time on the grind stone.

Yes. Some ideas. All they are especially useful if you had to work with some non public stuff:

* Search GitHub for ideas how to use API, best practices and etc.

* Convert Figma design to code

* In slack-driver development companies you can even search Slack for ideas

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by touristtam »

JeanMertz wrote: post #85
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…

For what it's worth, this is exactly why I am working on Jean-Pierre[0], pitched as: > A command-line toolkit to support you in your daily work as a software programmer. Built to integrate into your existing workflow, providing a flexible and powerful pair-programming experience with LLMs. The team behind DCD[1] are funding my work, as we see a lot of potential in a local-first, open-source, CLI-driven programming as…

You could do with a website and some screenshots to give a better overview of what one is looking at. ;)
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