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I Tested 5 CLI Coding Agents & Here’s What Surprised Me!

Pankaj Singh on July 19, 2025

I’m always curious how much an AI “pair programmer” in the terminal can help an enterprise dev get stuff done. To find out, I tried five popular co...
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Ashley Childress

Thank you for sharing this list - you seriously couldn’t have posted it at a better time! 🚦

I just started experimenting with AI integration for automated workflows, and let’s just say... getting GitHub’s version to play nice has been “an adventure” (it’s honestly a coin flip whether the problem’s on their end or mine at this point!). The fact that ForgeCode actually runs locally AND will work with Vertex might be exactly what I needed for an approval request at work - which would be awesome. Thanks again for the great info!

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Pankaj Singh

Pleasure, Ashley, and thanks for reading. Yeah, Forge supports multiple AI provider,s and one of them is Vertex. Feel free to reach out for more info or check here - Link.

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nadeem zia

Interesting to read

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Pankaj Singh

Thanks for reading Nadeem. Share it your folks!!!

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Prema Ananda

I use Gemini CLI alongside PyCharm for tracking file changes, editing, and git operations. It's probably not the ideal development process, but it works for now...

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Pankaj Singh

Gemini CLI looks good to me!!! I would suggest explore Forgecode. You never know if it clicks for you!!!

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Greg

Very interesting.

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Pankaj Singh

Thanks Greg for reading, please share this with your folks as well !!!

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Tom_Devops

Never tried ForgeCode, I hope it's good. Btw nice read.

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Pankaj Singh

Yeah once you try let me know!!

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kanchan negi

I personally loved Claude Code!!!

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Pankaj Singh

Thanks for reading...i love it!!!