While Im still personally skeptical on the ability of these tools to produce a GOOD software engineer, it’s something I should probably consider testing in a limited capacity.
I’ve noticed Deepseek has a few integrations, both official and hobbyist, with text editors like Claude Code. Plus, I’d rather not pay £20/mo for any of this stuff, let alone to any AI company NOT linked to the CPC.
I might consider a locally hosted model but the upfront cost for anything that can run it decently fast/high params are quite prohibitive. My home server isn’t really set up for good cooling!
For a terminal-native “agentic” solution, I use opencode[1] and love it. This can do all sorts of fancy stuff with tooling and commands. For example, if you tell it to do something, it usually builds the code, checks for errors, and then resolves them. For nvim, I use Avante[2], which is neither great nor terrible. It’s a bit buggy, but it’ll handle boilerplate well and can help with debugging.
https://opencode.ai/ ↩︎
https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim ↩︎
Thank you for the suggestions!
One formatting thing is the ^ needs to be closed, at least on lemmy.