The Chinese are really going strong on destroying the American AI economy bubble. Honestly, despite the fact that I'm totally pro USA and anti China, I think we should help them crashing the American AI bubble. They are controlling everything and we can't even buy a new computer nowadays while getting no benefit from this. I wish some influential programmers stimulated coders everywhere to skip Claude and Chatgpt subscriptions for Chinese ones, at scale. If we programmers united we could help this bubble burst, I'm sure.
If we programmers united we had a clouded code alternative that didn't suck :-)
But we're not far.
My requirements:
- a terminal app without advanced tui, not written like "a browser running in a terminal" or a game. There is no need to overcomplicated.
- ability to manage prompts per model, compress context using alternate models, and minimise token costs better - like the YouTube's Sentdex's Minion mini harness (in fact I'm building on top of his as we speak).
- support for agent work fanout
- support for MCP, but switchable off/on depending if needed (I use a single MCP aggregator anyway so mcp tool use doesn't eat my context)
- support for lsp/tree-sitter, again switchable when needed.
- support for OpenAI api and written easily enough so other ones like deepinfra are easy to add.
Nice to have:
- have some sort "prompt library" that would store tweaked versions of prompts for different models so it adjusted the harness as needed depending on which model we call.
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The Chinese are really going strong on destroying the American AI economy bubble. Honestly, despite the fact that I'm totally pro USA and anti China, I think we should help them crashing the American AI bubble. They are controlling everything and we can't even buy a new computer nowadays while getting no benefit from this. I wish some influential programmers stimulated coders everywhere to skip Claude and Chatgpt subscriptions for Chinese ones, at scale. If we programmers united we could help this bubble burst, I'm sure.
If we programmers united we had a clouded code alternative that didn't suck :-)
But we're not far.
My requirements: - a terminal app without advanced tui, not written like "a browser running in a terminal" or a game. There is no need to overcomplicated. - ability to manage prompts per model, compress context using alternate models, and minimise token costs better - like the YouTube's Sentdex's Minion mini harness (in fact I'm building on top of his as we speak). - support for agent work fanout - support for MCP, but switchable off/on depending if needed (I use a single MCP aggregator anyway so mcp tool use doesn't eat my context) - support for lsp/tree-sitter, again switchable when needed. - support for OpenAI api and written easily enough so other ones like deepinfra are easy to add.
Nice to have: - have some sort "prompt library" that would store tweaked versions of prompts for different models so it adjusted the harness as needed depending on which model we call.
That's it.
The US government will do the job of destroying the American AI economy through their export controls.
The US "product machine" is so strong. They really know how to do frictionless signup and vendor lock-in on the corporate side.
I'm doing my part!
"anti China", why so? have you lived there?