Comment by ericd

Absolutely, especially the part about just rolling your own alternative to Claude Code - build your own lightsaber. Having your coding agent improve itself is a pretty magical experience. And then you can trivially swap in whatever model you want (Cerebras is crazy fast, for example, which makes a big difference for these many-turn tool call conversations with big lumps of context, though gpt-oss 120b is obviously not as good as one of the frontier models). Add note-taking/memory, and ask it to remember key facts to that. Add voice transcription so that you can reply much faster (LLMs are amazing at taking in imperfect transcriptions and understanding what you meant). Each of these things takes on the order of a few minutes, and it's super fun.