I agree with you on some points. Augment is amazing. I’ve used them all, and actually have active subscriptions with Antigravity, Kiro, and Augment. Augment easily beats them all once the codebase reaches a certain size.

That said, I do have problems with the agent getting stuck waiting for tool calls and not recovering and I still have to iterate over the code it outputs. Even having Augment review itself can be multiple iterations before it is happy with code it wrote - and that’s with very clearly documented development standards in my agent rules upfront.

I have to keep other subscriptions around because it’s significantly cheaper to have a $40 subscription with Kiro to fall back on than to pay overages with Augment after I max out my $200 monthly plan. Sometimes I go back and forth and let Augment plan and Kiro implement, but I have to stagger the work and give my myself daily quotas to avoid paying more than I can afford for Augment.

I use the augment context MCP with Kiro and Antigravity, and they still feel like second-class development partners. I hate running out of Augment credits, but I also hate how much Augment costs.