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> I suspect as you do more, you will create dev guides and testing guides that can encapsulate more of that direction so you won't need to micromanage it.

Definitely. Prompt adherence to stuff that's in an AGENTS/QWEN/CLAUDE/GEMINI.md is not perfect ime though.

>If you used Gemini CLI, you picked the coding agent with the worst output. So if you got something that worked to your liking, you should try Claude.

I'm aware actually lol! I started with OpenCode+GLM 4.5 (via OpenRouter), but I started burning through cache extremely quickly, and I can't remotely afford Claude Code, so I was using qwen-code mostly just for the 2000 free requests a day and prompt caching abilities, and because I prefer Qwen 3 Coder to Gemini... anything for agentic coding.

You can use Claude Code against Kimi K2, DeepSeek, Qwen, etc. The 20$ a month plan gets you access to a token amount of sonnet for coding, but that wouldn't be indicative of how people are using it.

https://gist.github.com/WolframRavenwolf/0ee85a65b10e1a442e4...

We gave Gemini CLI a spin, it is kinda unhinged, I am impressed you were able to get your results. After reading through the Gemini CLI codebase, it appears to be a shallow photocopy knockoff of Claude Code, but it has no built in feedback loops or development guides other than, "you are an excellent senior programmer ..." the built in prompts are embarrassingly naive.

Qwen has it's own agent which I haven't used https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code

Another is https://github.com/sst/opencode

> You can use Claude Code against Kimi K2, DeepSeek, Qwen, etc.

Yeah but I wouldn't get a generous free tier, and I am Poor lmao.

> I am impressed you were able to get your results

compared to my brief stint with OpenCode and Claude Code with claude code router, qwen-code (which is basically a carbon copy of gemini cli) is indeed unhinged, and worse than the other options, but if you baby it just right you can get stuff done lol

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