I moved from Aider to ClaudeCode for the simple reason i usually use IntelliJ Idea and even if poorer than RooCode on VSCode, integration between IntelliJ and ClaudeCode is reasonably solid.
That said today i started using CCR since the possibility to use different models is extremely interesting (and the reason why i initially used Aider)
All these new tools are so exciting, but running untrusted code which auto-updates itself is blocking me from trying these tools.
I wish for a vetting tool. Have an LLM examine the code then write a spec of what it reads and writes, & you can examine that before running it. If something in the list is suspect.. you’ll know before you’re hosed not after :)
You can always chroot the directory you're using to isolate the tools from the rest of your system. That is unless your using a toy operating system of course. ;)
This is what got me started with claude-code. I gave it a try using openrouter API and got a bill of $40 for 2-3 hours of work. At that point, subscription to the Anthropic plan became a no-brainer
tbh, claude code is the only product that feels like its made by people who have actually used AI tooling on legacy codebases
for pretty much every other tool i've used, you walk away from it with the overwhelming feeling that whoever made this has never actually worked at a company in a software engineering team before
i realize this isn't an answer with satisfactory evidence-based language. but I do believe that there's a core `product-focus` difference between claude with other tools
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to use this with many of the recent open weight code/instruct models - CC tool use doesn’t work with Qwen3 and Kimi K2 for me.
No please folks. Personally I have always been excited about the AI as a scientific discipline and practical field, and still am. But lets please stop trying to make a dead-end application of an otherwise interesting technology work. Its like those people who were still trying to build electronics with vaccuum tubes after transistors were invented. We need a transistor moment in the AI, not more vaccuum tubes.
I tried installing and setting up the project today, it was miserable. I finally got it to work only to find out that the mistral models' tool calling does not work at all for claude code. Also, there is no mention anywhere of what models actually support anthropic level tool calling. If anyone knows if there are some open weight models (deepseek or others) I can host on my infra to get this to work out of the box that would be amazing.
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I wish for a vetting tool. Have an LLM examine the code then write a spec of what it reads and writes, & you can examine that before running it. If something in the list is suspect.. you’ll know before you’re hosed not after :)
Is it just better prompting? Better tooling?
for pretty much every other tool i've used, you walk away from it with the overwhelming feeling that whoever made this has never actually worked at a company in a software engineering team before
i realize this isn't an answer with satisfactory evidence-based language. but I do believe that there's a core `product-focus` difference between claude with other tools