[theshrike79]

As someone who uses the two big C's, I can recommend ampcode[0] and Crush[1]+z.ai GLM as an addition.

Amp can do small utility scripts and changes for free (especially if you enable the ads) and Crush+GLM is pretty good at following plans done by Claude or Codex

[0] https://ampcode.com/

[1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush

[Imustaskforhelp]

Okay I am genuinely curious by what you mean ads. This is the first time I heard of the concept of ads in something like these code agents

[Maxious]

There's screenshots here, they're visually seperated from the actual response https://x.com/connorado/status/2009707660988559827

[Imustaskforhelp]

An Ad based model although sucks, still feels like a decent model of income than companies which provide inference at loss making, interesting.

I hate the Ad models but I am pretty sure that most code gets trained in AI anyway and the code we generate would probably not be valuable metric (usually) to the ad company.

Interesting, what are your thoughts about it? Thanks for sharing this. Is the project profitable because I assume not, not sure how much advertisements costs would be there.

[theshrike79]

There's a tiny 2-line text ad above the prompt. I might have accidentally read it a few times, but meh. It's not like I look at the amp console that much anyway.

It seems to be about on par with Claude as a pair coder and I think it's a lot less verbose and concise on what it says, just sticking to the facts without any purple prose. It also seems to directly hook into ~/.claude/ just today it used a claude-only skill to analyse my codebase (using the scripts provided by the skill).