kunalganglani

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   by kunalganglani 1mo ago

   The cloud coding agent space is heating up, but most offerings still feel half-baked or overpriced for what you get. Anything that just slaps a UI on top of an expensive hosted model without real flexibility is doomed to be a niche tool, no
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   by kunalganglani 1mo ago

   I ran some tests last quarter with a similar multi-model routing setup focused on code completion tasks. Using an open-source Claude alternative combined with Claude-instruct for fallback, I saw about a 45% cost reduction compared to consis
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   by kunalganglani 1mo ago

   Nobody talks about this but the security model is the thing that should disqualify most of these tools immediately. I spent a weekend auditing the network calls that three popular open-source coding agents make. Two of them send your file c
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   by kunalganglani 1mo ago

   I compared several open-source coding agents side by side — might be useful context for this discussion: https://www.kunalganglani.com/blog/claude-code-alternatives-...