Comment by HorizonXP
10 hours ago
I’ve been doing Vim + aider, and now Claude Code. Those tools I understood. I never got into Cursor because I’m too old to give up Vim.
Clawd.bot really annoyed me at first. The setup is super tedious and broken and not fun. That’s mostly because I’m too impatient to tinker like I used to.
However, once you tinker, it’s so-so. I don’t think it’s a lot better than Claude Code or anything, but I think it’s just a focused vector for the same AI model, one focused on being your personal assistant. It’s like Claude Code vs. Claude Cowork. They’re the same thing. But given the low cost of creating custom tools, why not give people something that Clawd.bot that gives them focused guardrails?
Anyway, I could end up abandoning all of this too. And it’s all a kludge around things that should really be an API. But I do like that I can run it on my Mac Mini and have it control my desktop. It’ll be a cold day if I let it message for me; I’d rather it write deterministic code that does that, rather than do it directly.
Maybe this is the issue I’m facing. I’m already using Claude, Claude projects, Claude cowork, and Claude code a lot.
I used Claude projects for an entire proposal. That was one of the best proposals I think I’ve ever written.
I’ve been using cowork to help organize my downloads folder, which had 1500 files and I just didn’t have the patience to organize them.
So maybe the differences with Claude bought not as big because I’m able to vibe code my way into things like like integrations and other things that I’ve already been using?
For the app that I wrote to help manage my business, I exposed everything over MCP so I’m able to do things like timesheets and adding and removing people and purchase orders and all that stuff using MCP. So which is why I’m already kind of feeling the magic with my existing stuff maybe?
The one thing in ClawdBot’s favor is the scheduled stuff maybe?
What's up with aider? Did it get abandoned?
What models do you have driving now?
I've stepped away for a while and I haven't tried claude code yet
Aider isn't abandoned, but it feels like it's basically in maintenance mode at this point. Updates over the last year were limited to small improvements and fixes. There are some forks aimed at making it more "agentic" (more like Claude Code, etc). I haven't tried them personally.
> too old to give up Vim.
Even for Neovim? ;)
Even for Neovim!
Neovim is the only reason I've given vim a serious look. I love Emacs more, but Neovim lets me use any UI on top of it, which means I can have better visual indicators for things I don't know how to do in VIM. Emacs has a GUI but a lot of it is "beyond flat" and it just doesn't translate well to my brain. The best plugin for Emacs for me is still Spacemacs, and no I don't use it with the vim mode stuff, I prefer it with regular emacs commands (for anyone curious).
But Neovim just works for me every time, even vanilla its fine.
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