New to this. but whats the benefit over models like Claude code ?
Avoid lock in to stack from one provider (things like a harness that only works with models from one provider and so on).
Use local models (a couple of them do work a bit now, if you have 20Gb video RAM), which saves money and is more private, and works offline.
Can improve the harness, fix bugs in it, make it compatible with different systems and techniques.
This game happens every time in new cycles of developer technology. The good bet historically has always been to use open source - there's a reason most developer tooling just pre-AI revolution was open source (even things like Java and .NET which used to be proprietary).
You can use Claude Code with almost any model.
>Use local models (a couple of them do work a bit now, if you have 20Gb video RAM), which saves money and is more private, and works offline.
You can do that with Claude Code.