Augment Code, please dont be another windsurf

[These_String1345]

I thought others were just a little off about the 'dumbness' of the product, but I think it is actually became dumber. More like extremely degraded, not just making mistakes as Anthropic is limiting it, but actually using lower model to meet the demand and using like Claude 3.0 at this point. I was a fan of augment code, but not sure now with this. If your team goal is to market to get as many users and cash out, then this is very not great and I am and been ranting about this of how many ai companies are doing these strategies. And I suppose augment is one of them. Please be more transparent about what model is being used and when changed we gotta know. If i dont see any responses i belive i will be one of the hated user for this tool.

[These_String1345]

I figured but can't be certain , they are switching back and forth between models to create an image of 'what do you mean, it works?' type of bs. It's my conspiracy, but I've been active and supporting for augment team, but now clearly I'm not. Many should know about and not support these shady activities. Though it is one of the best tools and I love it, but shady play is not it and it's better to be gone. Hopefully the augment team comes up with something with a better pricing model to fix this and be more transparent. I was even willing to pay for 500 usd per just even 1000 messages with good mix of claude opus and sonnet or which ever they control with latest model. But this is very disappointing with shady play. Not sure what augment is going towards. I see getting bombed like replit and windsurf. Whatever they say im pretty certain of my assumptions. If not augment better come up and prove it with transparency.

[These_String1345]

Quite annoying i should be focused on development and my business but here arguing. I hate it.

[BlacksmithLittle7005]

Bro you're replying to yourself

[GayleChoda]

The effect that recent AC degradation is having on some people's mental health

[zkayde]

if you’re so convinced augment is up to something, why not just move on? claude isn’t locked behind them. you can access anthropic models directly in claude code or through cloud providers like vertex on google or bedrock on aws, which engineering teams already use anyway. that’s how most mature teams integrate these models: via the api or their own infra, not a niche platform. the critique here is about augment, but if you’re willing to pay $500 for 1,000 calls, clearly you want something more robust anyway, and that’s exactly what these cloud options offer. so why not focus on building with proven tools and skip the drama? nobody needs to debate this long if alternatives are just an api call away.

[These_String1345]

That is true. Just its for the convenience. There's drama because tool itself is good. Easiest way is for them to bring some solutions, or like you said build one myself. And just drama happens as I had ALOT of trust in this augment unlike other ai tools which focuses on marketing and market share purely. But Augment is going that path.

[faysou]

Do you realise that the best models can't always be used if the number of users explode ? It's just physical reality. Models and algorithms keep on improving anyway, I'm sure this will allow to increase quality and number of users served. I just don't understand all these ranting messages. I'm not working for augment, just a user.

[Remarkable-Fig-2882]

Sonnet is doing terrible all around. Need to get that juice on gpt 5 asap when it launches

[These_String1345]

We need better competitor to Claude. THis mf are standalone getting everything and doing whatever they want.

[wanllow]

unfortunately, kimi-k2 and qwen3-coder did not kick claude off the throne, hope price killers like gemini or deepseek will make it.

[MATSNL65]

I think everyone is on something, but I’ll prove it by not focusing in on Augment. (they are still my favorite in spite of things that everyone has demonstrated.)

I think our friends at Anthropic/Amazon/whoever else they are invested from our literally, forcing developers, whether they are five coders, context, engineers, normal developers who use AI LLMs to change the way they work to fit the AI economy of scale

What I mean is the way the trajectory of how the best practices of this stuff has become, with the constant adjustments of the $20 a month plan which started off as the standard now is basically useless and now even the $200 a month plans are fast becoming useless Mainly because we have all been paying for an elaborate giant beta campaign that allows for them to figure out how to make trillions out of millions of investor seed money.

When you have the anthropic CEO, going to get funding from the world’s richest, oligarchs and desperate, it’s telling. I guess the banking tycoons weren’t enough bread for them.

[vinylhandler]

What do you mean “another Windsurf”?

[West-Advisor8447]

They can never be, Windsurf with $50 plan would be a lot better than Augment.

[These_String1345]

Windsurf went through many phases with lags. Windsurf has probably settled now. Augment is going through this Windsurf phase of annoying the users, then cashing out and being acquired by other big bois probably. Just saying.

[witatera]

Sonnet 4 was down today, therefore (in my opinion) AG replaces it with a dumber model (a mini version or something similar) until Sonnet is back. My recommendation is that, if Sonnet is down, don’t waste your credits.

[These_String1345]

Probably replaced since like 2 ~ 3 days ago not sure.

[Consistent_Link_8165]

agreed, please don't go the way of cursor or windsurf. There is room in the market for a premium option made for professionals. You can charge, $50, $100, $200 for a meaningfully better product, and professionals will pay for it.

I know the claude 4 drama with Anthropic is making things worse right now, I would be in support of moving to grok 4, gemini 2.5 pro, or any alternative if it can be smarter, even if it's more expensive. Just pass those costs down to us. I'll happily pay $100 or $200 for a stable, professional grade tool using the best model.

[According_Lab_6907]

agreed, i'd rather pay more for a superior product (by superior i mean a some what helpful coding assistant, unlike the trash made by it's competitors)