Comment by mirzap
2 days ago
Yeah, it's quite odd that they can't get AI tools to work, especially considering so many OSS tools available that work surprisingly well (cline, opencode, etc.).
2 days ago
Yeah, it's quite odd that they can't get AI tools to work, especially considering so many OSS tools available that work surprisingly well (cline, opencode, etc.).
How do these compare? I'm very familiar with Augment and particularly enjoy its fast completions. I mostly don't use its agent, but rather Claude Code in the terminal, because the agent seems superior.
But Augment is not the most stable. I've had lots of serious problems with it. The newest problem that's pushing me over the edge is that it's recently have been causing the IDE to shoot up to use all cores (it's rare to see an app use 1,000% CPU in the macOS Activity Monitor, but it did it!) when it needs to recompute indexes, which is the only thing that has ever made my M2 Mac run its fan. It's not very reliable generally (e.g. autocompletions don't always appear), so I'd be interested in trying alternatives.