[59nadir]

I think it's good that it's out there, and I wonder why Anthropic have been keeping it closed source; clearly they can't possibly think that the CC source code is a competitive advantage...?

Agents in general are easy to make, and trivial to make for yourself especially, and the result will be much better than what any of the big providers can make for you.

`pi` with whatever commands/extensions you want to make for yourself is better than CC if you really don't want to go through the trouble of making your own thing.

[ramraj07]

If you think this is not a competitive advantage then youre missing the point. LLMs arent so good that they work through bad abstractions and pretty much everyone has bad abstractions. CC is what invents some of the best abstractions (not the first). I think theyre they first ones who nailed subagents well. Theres a lot to learn from them and while im learning a lot from their source code my heart bleeds that this happened to them.

Sincerely, someone running a team building similar things for analytics.

[ariwilson]

why do you think agents you make yourself will be better for you? integration with tooling that you prefer? your local dev setup built in?

curious as i haven't gotten around to writing my own agent yet

[59nadir]

All of the above at exactly the token cost that it requires for you.

Anything general is always going to be worse for specific use cases, and agents from these big providers are very general. They'll spend tons of tokens doing things that you might not need, including spend extra tokens on supporting MCP, etc., when you might not even need that.