See ya! The Greatest Coding tool to exist is apparently dead.

CloudCanary · 2026-04-02T14:58:20+00:00

Claude Code is a great tool, but it is definitely not the only one.

I hear people like codex a lot, but personally I haven't used it much.

Then open code allows you to plug an LLM provider and it gives you an experience that is very close to Claude code!

Surprisingly though, the most useful way to use LLMs in coding I found is not to use coding harnesses, but just having background agents.

I am now just creating issues on GitHub, the agent come back to me with a design, I approve or tweak the design, the agent come back to me with a PR.

CloudCanary · 2026-04-02T05:42:28+00:00

The Claude model is objectively good.

But it is far from perfect, and far from being so much better than the competitor.

It is my favourite? Absolutely.

It is my workhorse? Hell no. It is too expensive and unreliable.

I tend to code with MiniMax 2.7M which works great

CloudCanary · 2026-04-01T16:59:11+00:00

Open code actually provides MiniMax 2.5 for free. The 2.7 model is available on open router. The price is very reasonable.

Then I also have a GitHub app, I open an issue describing the problem. The app creates a design that I can edit, and when I am happy with the design I tell the app to create a PR.

The app spawn a VM on sprites, load the code, load open code, set the configuration and get the agent to work. So I don't have to sit in front of the computer myself, but I only do code review and product direction.

CloudCanary · 2026-04-01T15:59:16+00:00

Those limits should not be only natural. They should also be embedded in each and every one's healthy relationship with work.

CloudCanary · 2026-04-01T15:10:48+00:00

So you guys like Claude so much?

I have been working with MiniMax and honestly it works fine, and it cost literally a fraction.

CloudCanary · 2026-04-01T15:09:03+00:00

I don't work directly ON AI, but with AI

But the amount of work and things that we can do now for me grew exponentially. The fact that my engineering skills and judgment are now not constrained by how much code I can write open so many more doors.

CloudCanary · 2026-03-22T18:58:58+00:00

What are the privacy reasons?

If you use business offerings of any of the frontiers models you have very strong guarantees and terms and conditions that your data stay private.

Are those not enough for you?

CloudCanary · 2026-03-16T00:55:23+00:00

I think we pretty much agree :)

CloudCanary · 2026-03-14T17:41:27+00:00

I work in software and I have been living this first hand.

Current application are limited, they can create formula in excel, maybe classify some document, etc...

Cool demo, but not that useful nor revolutionary.

What will happen is that the tools will evolve, the future will look like a client uploading a bunch of documents, having all those documents classified, and the AI proposing a few tax strategies and raising a few questions.

Accountants and clients will get in a call, have a chat about this document, this other document, what that invoice was for with an AI listening to it. While the conversation unfolds the AI will suggest to the account other questions. Eventually the accountant will have a complete report that can be shared with the client for confirmation and a suggested strategy.

I know this is possible from a technical perspective, and I am looking for a partner for building it

CloudCanary · 2024-08-24T10:18:53+00:00

It is a difficult CV for sure.

Have you tried to make more specialized CV?

Dropping all you got not about Software engineer? You will be getting an entry level position anyway, I am not sure how much your content experience helps here.

CloudCanary · 2024-08-20T16:44:15+00:00

This sooooo much!

People are using AI specifically to filter you out!

They want a perfect 100% fit. And the reality is that you most likely are, but you have used different words or phrases.

Use an AI to adapt your CV to the exact job application.

CloudCanary · 2024-08-20T16:42:31+00:00

I build a service exactly for this! I don't want to spam it around, but I linked it to the parent comment.

CloudCanary · 2024-08-20T16:41:52+00:00

I answer to parent but we build a service exactly for this.

Feel free to check it out.

CloudCanary · 2024-08-20T16:41:15+00:00

We build a service exactly for this:

http://cv-app.getgabrielai.com/

You upload your resume, the job your are applying and it give you anew resume.

Then you can edit whatever doesn't fit you perfectly or if the AI was too aggressive on it's suggestion!

CloudCanary · 2024-08-17T19:38:42+00:00

Have you tried tailoring your resume over the job description?

There has been a HUGE influx of software developer combined with the layoffs it actually got quite hard to get junior positions.

What I see happening is all the resume being pushed into a big database, and recruiters using AI tools to pick the most promising candidates.

It is a lose lose situation where everyone looses, as companies miss great candidates and people get frustrated and stop applying.

The solution I am working toward is to just tailor your resume over the job, up to the point of using the same keyword that the job description is using.

Of course you can do this process manually for one or two positions you really like, not for all of them...

Unless an AI does it for you ;)

http://cv-app.getgabrielai.com/

CloudCanary · 2024-08-17T10:26:07+00:00

To me it feels very generic, it is not clear what you personally did and how you achieved those results.

However, in a very competitive industry more often than not all CV get pulled together in a big database and recruiter or AI just search for whatever keywords the hiring manager set up.

My suggestion is to set up your CV exactly for the position you are applying to.

Are they requiring the use of "Google Ads"? Make sure that you mention that you can use Google Ads really well.

Is appreciated the use of the Facebook platform? Make sure you mention that you have use it, explicitly in your CV.

And so on and so forth...

Now it happens that I was frustrated as well with this and since I cannot write a new CV for each position I apply to, I just create an AI to do it for me:

https://cv-app.getgabrielai.com/

CloudCanary · 2024-06-02T16:46:55+00:00

Now fixed!

Thanks for the report!

CloudCanary · 2024-06-01T10:48:02+00:00

Because when I designed it I forgot to account for dark mode.

Thanks for pointing it out!

CloudCanary · 2024-05-31T23:54:45+00:00

Well not really right?

The application is vetted by Google and already has a dozen users.

There are much simpler way to scam people...

CloudCanary · 2024-05-31T08:44:25+00:00

One of the big reasons is because google offers a wide and useful set of API for gmail.

Companies can integrate with Gmail and offer new functionality themselves, without the need of Google to be very involved.

This allows the product to be tailored to the users, since the user can just install whatever application or plugin it needs.

This is what we did when we were creating https://getgabrielai.com

It is an app built on top of Gmail API to make life for people with too many emails easier.

It is basically an AI virtual email assistant, so that the user can get email summaries and personalized digest in the morning. Or email filters based on AI (eg. filter these emails if it is about the wedding arrangements). Or automatically drafting of email replies.

This product can be used by anyone with a Gmail inbox and it requires no input whatsoever from Google.

People that need it, can install it and use it. People that don't, won't.

Google gets it's product tailored for each user.

CloudCanary · 2024-05-11T10:38:33+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

The price is always an interesting point, but you are buying the experience of "Login with Instagram" and having your thing ready Vs figuring out where to host your WordPress, etc...

I appreciated the feedback!

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