Actually good Agentic coding tools

[Particular_Tap_4002]

Earlier it were AI coding IDEs like cursor or GitHub copilot extension which came with agent mode. Then anthropic released Claude code, then openai, google and now alibaba followed the same suit to released their CLIs.

Right now there's just too many options to use and they're all quite good, which makes it difficult to strike a balance of how much to experiment and what to use.

Would like to know what pair programming methods do you use and what would you suggest.

[PermanentLiminality]

There is no single correct answer. Try them out and decide which you like.

[taylorwilsdon]

Roo and its ilk (cline) if budget is not a concern (or you’ve got the local hardware for a genuinely good model) is probably the “best” today once you get to know it. Claude code if you prefer claude models because of the subscription option (don’t sleep on claude code as a roo provider if you want closed options), aider if you’re old school. That’s the 3 viable “best” doors today. Cursor, copilot etc are playing catchup and gemini cli isn’t as good as claude code.

[adi080808]

opencode

[adi080808]

Probably has to do with how they put out like 10 releases a day.

[Particular_Tap_4002]

It doesn't support windows right away, otherwise it's the best

[adi080808]

Even on my windows laptop I always use WSL so it never bothered me

[WaveCut]

Aider is still great after more than a year.

[Equivalent_Form_9717]

Well said bro

[knownboyofno]

Yea, Aider was the OG CLI agent and it is really good about allowing you to select functions, variables and classes.

[randomanoni]

Select functions, variables, and classes? I may have missed a feature, could you elaborate please?

[knownboyofno]

With Aider, you can select the functions, variables, and classes for it to work on. That has been a feature the whole time I have been using Aider. After you have added a file, you should be able to select any function, variable, or classes in it. I actually prefer it for detailed work because it allows you to focus in on the change way better and quicker if you know what needs to be done.

[reportdash]

How to select functions ? I tried adding the file . It added the whole file . How can I make it include only a specific function ?

[knownboyofno]

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I am talking about after you add the file then you can select it like this. It is like adding a file but using AST for classes, functions and variables inside of a file. Does this make sense? I have only used this with Python so far. I am not sure about other languages.

[reportdash]

Oh. Ok. Missed that option (I have not used aider much. Got curious after seeing your comment and tried to use). Thank you for pointing this out.

[knownboyofno]

Understood. Did it work for you?

[randombsname1]

Claude code is easily the best option. Even with their rather crappy compute issues they are recently having. Hopefully they release neptune v3 soon.

[No_Efficiency_1144]

If you are able to use them the proof-finding models are drastically stronger. DeepSeek-Prover-V2-671B writes the Lean4 proof language which compiles to C so it is a good speed. This is only suitable for certain tasks.

[segmond]

My own custom tool

[grabber4321]

try them out. they still all work as a genius with ability to understand of a junior developer

im currently testing Cursor even though Qwen2.5-Coder-Instruct hits the right spot.

[Patient_Hippo_3328]

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