and then get the honor of copy and pasting all of the changes afterward?

I'm building a browser based tool that runs on your computer, with full tool access of course, that works with all the major models and is far better and more ergonomic to use than code, codex, etc.

If you (or anyone else reading this) wants to try out the upcoming beta give me a ping. (see profile.)

I wonder if anyone has done an analysis on the HN user sentiment on the varying AI models over time. I'd be curious to see what that looks like. Increasingly, I'm seeing more and more people talk positively about Gemini and Google (and having used Gemini recently, I align with that sentiment)

I think Bard (lol) and Gemini got a late start and so lots of folks dismissed it but I feel like they've fully caught up. Definitely excited to see what Gemini 3 vs GPT-5 vs Claude 4 looks like!

Context is only one part of it. I tried using Gemini and got sub par results. comment-laden code with not not following instructions.

How are you uploading zip files of code to Gemini?

I’ve tried Gemini 2.5 Pro a couple of times and honestly don’t like its output. Claude Sonnet 3.7 is much better at correctly understanding and executing my imprecise prompts.

Gemini 2.5 Flash on the other hand has excellent. I’ve started using it to rewrite whole files after talking the changes through with Claude, because it’s just so ridiculously fast (and dependable enough for applying already outlined changes).

This is Claude Code.

The two work really well with Gemini as a planner and Claude Code as an executor.

Maybe I'm holding it wrong, but I can easily spend $20+ using Claude Code for 2 hours. I've stopped using it because it was too expensive for my personal projects.

"- anthropic employees, with unlimited claude, average to $6/day of usage"

From the link:

"Apparently, there are some engineers inside of Anthropic that have spent >$1,000 in one day!"

The question is what is the P50, P75, and P95 spend per employee?

I’ve really enjoyed the recent latent space podcasts. I don’t think there is any person†/podcast (or perhaps other content) approaching your general output while maintaining the high SNR. I am continually amazed at the volume and value of public work you’re producing over the last (half?) decade while still growing various businesses. I hope others can find similar productivity gradients. I know you roughly share what works for you but it is not so easy to reproduce.

† simonw, gwern

> The "golden" end state of coding agents is that you give it a Feature Request (EG Jira ticket), and it gives you a PR to review and give feedback on.

I see your point but in the other hand how depressing to be left only with the most soul crushing part of software entering - the Jira ticket.

Not sure about that golden end state. Mine would be being in a room surround by screens with AI agents coding, designing, testing, etc. I would be there in the center giving guidance, direction, applying taste, etc… All conversational, wouldn’t need to touch the keyboard 99% of the time.

That's what I want and look forward one day

> The "golden" end state of coding agents is that you give it a Feature Request (EG Jira ticket), and it gives you a PR to review and give feedback on. Cursor, windsurf, etc, are dead ends in that sense as they are local editors, and can not be in CI.

Isn’t that effectively the promise of the most recently released OpenAI codex?

From the reviews I’ve been able to find so far though, quality of output is ehh.

Anthropic also announced something along those lines today as well, in beta: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/github-action...

played around with connecting https://github.com/eyaltoledano/claude-task-master via mcp to create a prd which basically replaces the ticket grooming process and then executing it with claude code creating a branch named like the ticket and pushing after having created the unit tests and constant linting.

Can't you have that already?

Put the Aider CLI into a GitHub action that's triggered by an issue creation and you're good to go.

The vision of submitting a feature request and receiving a ready-to-review PR is equally compelling and horrifying from the standpoint of strategy management.

Like Anthropic and most big tech companies, they don't want to show off the best until they need to. They used to stockpile some cool features, and they have time to think about their strategy. But now I feel like they are in a rush to show off everything and I'm worried whether the management has time to think about the big picture.

Other than the command/arguments there isn't much locking you in. It's just input/output. Swap it out for something else or simply wrap it. There's not much going on here.

"Lock i-"

At this point Claude Code is a software differentiator in the agent coding space.

I am building things related to AI code assistants - we were hacking ways to integrate Claude Code - it was the first thing we wanted to build around.

It's too early to care about lock in.

Need the best, will only build around the best.

Looks quite similar to my https://llm.datasette.io tool as well.

Honestly though, CLI tools for accessing LLMs (including piping content in and out of them) is such a clearly good idea I'm glad to see more tools implementing the pattern.

This is what happens when you let lawyers say what they want.

Aider could really profit from a polished GitHub Actions workflow.

Add a file to your repo and you can talk to any model via issues.

How close can you get Aider to Claude Code? Ie i liked the Claude Code UX, but i don't use it because i prefer Gemini 2.5 Pro.

I don't really want it committing and stuff, i mostly like the UX of Claude Code. Thoughts?