Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers
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·March 4, 2025tasn
dimfeld
Claude 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 Python and Claude Code in Javascript, among other reasons to think that it is not derived from Aider.
The tools also work very differently when you're actually using them, with Claude Code doing more of an agent loop and having very different methods of putting together the context to pass to the model.
anacrolix
I've struggled to get both to do anything useful. that said Claude code is consistent and doesn't error a lot
Daviey
License could be an interesting challenge and compatibility.
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/LICENSE.... and https://github.com/dnakov/anon-kode/blob/main/LICENSE.md
ai-christianson
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 https://github.com/ai-christianson/RA.Aid
Disclaimer: am maintainer
If you try it and have feedback, I'm very curious to hear it.
999900000999
Can I give your money ?
I'll try it out tonight.
Does running it inside of VS Code sandbox this ? Claude keeps failing when every it tries to run a shell directory.
paulgb
I'm holding off on using it until the IDFK license is OSI approved.
npace12
Yeah, hopefully they'd let it slide
pizzalife
Cool project! Though I'd advise dialing down the edge factor.
simonw
Yeah, "Terminal-based AI coding retard" is unnecessary.
koakuma-chan
> Fixes your spaghetti code
> Explains wtf that function does
> Runs tests and other bullshit
Love it
dartos
Are there examples of LLMs fixing spaghetti code in the wild?
koakuma-chan
If your spaghetti code is written in React, Claude Code might be able to do it given enough time, and at the cost of a few million tokens.
npace12
The interesting part, to me, is that claude-code is made by people who know their models well. Having the same tool work with other models lets us get a better feel of how to make better coding agents
ABDULQDER
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ABDULQDER
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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?