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We also use proxies with CodeRabbit’s sandboxes. Instead of using tool calls, we’ve been using LLM-generated CLI and curl commands to interact with external services like GitHub and Linear.

This topic has been done to death. Too many OSS options in the last ~10 years with very little differentiation.

Let's talk LLMs instead.

Have to provide precise instructions to LLMs to get anything useful.

Instructions for operating the "Holy hand grenade of Antioch" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail are a good example:

''First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'

When people ask us about any other AI tool, our standard reply is - "Please try both tools to see the difference and choose the one you like."

We will appreciate the same courtesy from our competitors.

Cheers!

I see that the handful of Ellipsis "buddies" here are upvoting your post. :)

CodeRabbit employees wouldn't usually be commenting here to spoil your "moment," but this reply is entirely wrong on so many levels. The fact is that CR is much further along the traction (several hundred paying customers and thousands of GitHub app installs) and product quality. Most of the CR clones are just copying the CR UX (and it's OSS prompts) at this point, including Ellipsis. The chat feature at CR is also pretty advanced - it even comes with a sandbox environment to execute AI-generated shell commands that help it deep dive into the codebase.

Again, I am sorry that we had to push back on this reply; we usually don't respond to competitors - but this statement was plain wrong, so we had to flag it.