[alixanderwang]

Played around with it for a serious task for 15 mins. Compared to Claude Code:

Pros:

- Beautiful UI

- Useful sidebar, keep track of changed files, cost

- Better UX for accepting changes (has hotkeys, shows nicer diff)

Cons:

- Can't combine models. Claude Code using a combination of Haiku for menial search stuff and Sonnet for thinking is nice.

- Adds a lot of unexplained junk binary files in your directory. It's probably in the docs somewhere I guess.

- The initial init makes some CHARM.md that tries to be helpful, but everything it had did not seem like helpful things I want the model to know. Simple stuff, like, my Go tests use PascalCasing, e.g. TestCompile.

- Ctrl+C to exit crashed my terminal.

[jimmcslim]

> The initial init makes some CHARM.md

Oh god please no... can we please just agree on a standard for a well-known single agent instructions file, like AGENT.md [1] perhaps (and yes, this is the standard being shilled by Amp for their CLI tool, I appreciate the irony there). Otherwise we rely on hacks like this [2]

[1] https://ampcode.com/AGENT.md

[2] https://kau.sh/blog/agents-md/

[cwlb]

imo they should all support AGENT.md, but because of differences in tools, you often need an additional file per-agent.