alt Hacker NewsA random thought has started to occur, maybe given how early we are in LLM tech world, isn’t it strange a lot of AI tech is being built on top of proprietary tech? In this case, it’s Claude Code
And honestly, all this free marketing has me convinced to pay for it
There are many open source alternatives to claude code. Crush[0] is one, Clai[1] another, opencode[3] a third. These are all vendor agnostic, and use API credits from different providers.
[0]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush [1]: https://github.com/baalimago/clai [2]: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode