capocasa
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Comment · 4 days ago
Oh my goodness! Excitement!!!
Comment · 1 month ago
That sounds really quite interesting- one question pops up, this sounds like it could produce a lot of non-cache input tokens. How much impact does this have, and are you mitigating it?
Interested in adding support to my own 3code- https://3code.capocasa.dev- which aims to reduce cost by using more compact system prompts and a clever compaction variant.
Comment · 1 month ago
Thank you!!! And thank you for your interest!
Yes- I plan to make a a full web app, as well as a web-and-terminal orchestrator app. Still planning the details.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm here for the long haul!
I believe software can be done- with incremental improvement and keeping the foundation, like vim. That's the 3code trajectory.
New fun ideas go into seperate tools, possibly ones 3code (or other minimal agents) can call, but the core stays lean.
Comment · 1 month ago
I agree! MCP should be a command line tool wrapper than can be used from any minimal agent without bloating context if you don't need it.
Comment · 1 month ago
I did some token tests and both pi and my own 3code used 4x fewer tokens than Claude Code, while opencode used 2x fewer tokens than Claude Code. You can tell Anthropic just doesn't care about using tokens and the tradeoff is maximal performance. That's understandable, but it might not be the tradeoff you need, hence, alternative clients.
Comment · 1 month ago
I went for a middle ground in https://3code.capocasa.dev.
Each family gets their own system prompt, based on the original harness one, but compacted and includes instructions for more brevity.
Comment · 1 month ago
I made just that!
Written in Nim. Unixy scrollback but cross plaform. Tested for token efficiency.
Comment · 1 month ago
Or for something not quite as bare bones- batteries included and tested for token consumption- https://3code.capocasa.dev
Comment · 1 month ago
Last time I tried Mistral large it was pretty bad at programming but I hear they're fairly good at European language legal.
Comment · 1 month ago
This is such a breath of fresh air
Comment · 2 months ago
I saw that very much developing 3code. Even slight system prompt variations can have huge differences in results, so I have one system prompt per model family.