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Show HN: A faster coding agent than Codex and Claude Code

https://www.codewithbullet.com
5•alsima•5h ago
Hi HN, excited to be sharing this with you guys today.

TL;DR: Bullet is a fast coding agent.

At our company, we were burning hours waiting on agent runs. The models weren’t the problem. The agent loops around them were slow (unnecessary planning, oversized context, repeated searches, and serial tool calls).

So we built Bullet as a passion project, the goal being to help you iterate faster, without giving up quality: - It automatically selects the model and reasoning level for each prompt. - It runs independent searches, reads, and commands in parallel. - It uses targeted code search instead of embedding the entire repository. - It works with your Claude Code or Codex subscription, OpenAI/Anthropic/xAI API keys, or an on-device model with no key.

Claude Code and Codex each center on their own model ecosystem. OpenCode gives you many models, but largely leaves model selection and configuration to you. Bullet sits above the models. Connect what you already pay for, then let Bullet choose the fastest path for every task.

On SWE-bench Verified, Bullet resolved 479/500 issues (95.8%, top 3 on the leaderboard) in one attempt, averaging 119 seconds per task (35–67% faster than mini-SWE-agent + Fable/Sol). Full results and methodology here: https://www.codewithbullet.com/blog/benchmark-results.html

We would love honest feedback on the product! It takes less than a minute to download and set up. We’d love to hear what you like about Bullet, and what sucks. The Mac app DMG release is on our website: https://www.codewithbullet.com/

P.S: we hid a code on the website, see if you can unlock the secret page at the footer (all built with Bullet) :) https://youtu.be/34wfiSoSw4Q

Comments

adikulkarni1•5h ago
this is interesting, will try it out
alsima•5h ago
You can also check out another demo here which compares Bullet speed to Codex/CC: https://youtu.be/rWVmG5fRKgE
sensho•5h ago
nicee
alsima•5h ago
Thanks sensho :)
tjansen•2h ago
Interesting. I tried it with two real-life tasks that I usually would use Claude Code for (I prefer using it with the VSCode extension, not CLI).

1. First thing I noticed was the lack of autocompletion when entering @<filename> (or #<filename> with Github Copilot). Makes it really difficult to talk about files, since I don't always remember the full name. Had to go to VSCode to find it.

2. I assume, even though I selected Claude, it doesn't read CLAUDE.md? Does it have an equivalent? It had trouble navigating my repository. Pointing it to CLAUDE.md in the prompt fixed it, though.

3. For the second task, it created a plan (without me asking for one) and let me approve it. But then it marked the whole plan completed in the first few seconds, except the last item, before it wrote a single line of code. Or execute anything (the plan included what to edit, and what to test/run).

4. The generated code was fine for both tasks. The first one had about 20 changed lines, and the second ~100 lines + 300 lines of tests. It was very thorough in testing its changes, like the latest versions of Claude Code.

5. The bad part: implementing the plan for the 100 LOC change took about 13 minutes (unfortunately it doesn't show the exact duration when finished; it was at >100 tasks and over 770s). To compare, I stashed the changes, tried it on Claude Code with the same prompt, default model (Opus 5), auto mode. It did not create a plan and finished the task in 12 minutes. Claude's code was a bit simpler, and I prefer it over Bullet's by a small margin.

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