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anon-kode

Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers

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#ai coding agent#claude code fork#local llm#terminal assistant

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How HN took it

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5 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.

Idea: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Tool is useful and fun to try

    From 1 comment
    • > Fixes your spaghetti code > Explains wtf that function does > Runs tests and other bullshit Love it
      koakuma-chan on HN

Objections

  • Licence is unclear and may conflict with Claude Code's licence

    From 2 comments
    • License could be an interesting challenge and compatibility. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/LICENSE.md and…
      Daviey on HN
    • I'm holding off on using it until the IDFK license is OSI approved.
      paulgb on HN
  • Calling it a fork is questioned since Claude Code is not open source

    From 1 comment
  • Name and README wording was edgy and was changed

    From 3 comments
    • Cool project! Though I'd advise dialing down the edge factor.
      pizzalife on HN
    • Yeah, "Terminal-based AI coding retard" is unnecessary.
      simonw on HN
    • README is now less retarded as per author: https://github.com/dnakov/anon-kode/commit/320265694838fb2ae4df015729833b6f588b363b
      DrammBA on HN

Requests

  • Clarify the licence and whether it is OSI approved

    From 1 comment
    • I'm holding off on using it until the IDFK license is OSI approved.
      paulgb on HN

Questions

  • Is Claude Code derived from Aider

    From 2 comments
    • Congrats on the launch! As someone who is ignorant and not following all of the recent releases. Isn't Claude-code a proprietary version of https://aider.chat/ in the first place?
      tasn on HN
    • Claude Code works similarly to Aider in that they both run in the terminal and write code using LLMs, but it shares no code with Aider as far as I know. Aider is written in…
      dimfeld on HN
  • How it compares in effectiveness to Aider

    From 2 comments
    • > Simple enough that it's not hard to replicate… Yet the Product Hunt crowd mostly (a) hustle to ship each other's takes on feature innovations, (b) still fail to match each…
      Terretta on HN
    • Is it so much better? What's the difference? How does it do embeddings?
      haolez on HN

Alternatives named

  • Aider

    From 2 comments
    • Congrats on the launch! As someone who is ignorant and not following all of the recent releases. Isn't Claude-code a proprietary version of https://aider.chat/ in the first place?
      tasn on HN
    • Look into goose¹ and aider² as well [1] https://github.com/block/goose [2] https://aider.chat/
      kristopolous on HN
  • Goose

    From 1 comment
    • Look into goose¹ and aider² as well [1] https://github.com/block/goose [2] https://aider.chat/
      kristopolous on HN
  • RA.Aid

    From 1 comment
    • If you want one that was shipped 3 months earlier, is true FOSS (Apache 2.0,), and can even work reasonably with qwen-32b-coder-instruct, check…
      ai-christianson on HN
  • Claudine

    From 1 comment
    • > Isn't Claude-code a proprietary version of https://aider.chat/ in the first place? It might be; but aider is Apache 2 licensed and I don't think Anthropic would be able to…
      jillesvangurp on HN
  • Kwaak

    From 1 comment
    • Nice! Could you maybe share some cool things that you've used it for? I love that your demo is it adding a feature to itself. We did the exact same thing for our OSS autonomous…
      tinco on HN

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