anon-kode
Dev tools
ai coding agent
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How HN took it
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
The thread, comment by comment
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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 HNI'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
How can it be a fork of Claude-code when it’s not open source?
d4rkp4ttern on HN
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 HNYeah, "Terminal-based AI coding retard" is unnecessary.
simonw on HNREADME 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 HNClaude 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 HNIs 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 HNLook 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