Claude by Anthropic is a powerful tool. Its ability to write, debug, and reason through code makes it a favorite among developers, especially for t...
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Yeah, I am having some bad experiences with Claude Code recently. Not because that it's getting worse, but because I still remember how good it was. Now Claude Code loops, it contradicts, it forgets the context easily, and it doesn't look like a shiny object rather than just another AI tool.
Let alone the $200/mo tag.
Good list OP, would like to explore some of them, at least offload part of the work from Claude Code!
Totally feel you. Claude Code had such a strong start it’s tough watching it lose that edge. The context loss is especially frustrating. Hopefully one or two from this list can help fill the gap (or at least take some pressure off). Let me know what you end up trying.
Impressive list! Are they open source?
Glad you find them helpful. Most of them are open source or have open-source components.
Augment code is not web based its an extension that you add to your codebase. It shines when the context of your codebase is very large, even beating Claude code in such tasks that have to do with finding things in large codebase. You should definitely try it out.
Nice article in all well done.
Roo Code is a fork of Cline, but with more features and more customizable. That is my go-to dev AI now.
Just started using Kiro and am loving it! Instead of vibecoding, it’s vibe engineering. It produces requirements, design and task specs based on your natural language prompt. It helps keep everything much more focused, and on track.
This is a fantastic roundup—super practical and well-researched! I especially appreciate the variety across cloud-based, open-source, and local-first tools. I've been leaning more toward Opencode CLI and Ollama myself lately for offline flexibility. Definitely bookmarking this for future experiments. Thanks for sharing!
If you want gemini-cli but for any model github.com/acoliver/llxprt-code - you can still use all of your Google stuff but openrouter or local models even!
@therealmrmumba The Cline link is broken.
Cline is branded under kilocode now. Zencoder is pretty good too. I didn't realize grok had one - will have to check that out. Thanks for sharing