[Vanclief]

Claude Code is my favorite way to use LLMs for coding.

However I feel what we really need is to have an open source version of it where you can pass any model and also you can compare different models answers.

(Aider and other alternatives really doesn't feel as good to use as Claude Code)

I know this is not what anthropic would want to do as it removes their moat, but as a consumer I just want the best model and not be tied to an ecosystem. (Which I imagine is the largest fear of LLM model providers)

[ayargz]

OpenAI codex is probably the closest to what you're talking about, its open source and you can use models from any provider. It's not as good as claude code right now but I bet it wont take long for them to catch up.

https://github.com/openai/codex/tree/main

[jennings_hunter]

You might be interested in the OpenCode project: https://github.com/opencode-ai/opencode

It's still under development but looks promising.

[energy123]

> (Aider and other alternatives really doesn't feel as good to use as Claude Code)

What does Claude Code do better than Aider?

[baalimago]

I've self-plugged too hard of late. But check my previous comments for a service I wrote in go, which is exactly what you're asking for.

[greyman]

Question: I agree, but doesn't that other model need to be trained so it knows how to work with MCP servers? Or that isn't an issue?

[Semtexzv]

https://termineer.io/

[pram]

You can use Claude Code as an MCP server so you can kinda do this already.