As someone who really dislikes using Cursor, what does the HN hivemind think of alternatives? Is there a good CLI like Claude Code but for Gemini / other models? Is there a good Neovim plugin that gets the contextual agent mode right?
They also have a mode (--watch-files) that allows you to talk to a running aider instance from inside vim, but I haven't used it much yet.
I cant go back to a regular IDE after being able to tab my way through most boilerplate changes, but anytime I have Cursor do something relatively complex it generates a bunch of stuff I don't want. If I use Claude chat the barrier of manually auditing anything that gets copied over stays in place.
I also have pretty low faith in a fully useful version of Cursor anytime soon.
I built an open source CLI coding agent that is essentially this[1]. It combines Claude/Gemini/OpenAI models in a single agent, using the best/most cost effective model for different steps in the workflow and different context sizes. The models are configurable so you can try out different combinations.
It uses OpenRouter for the API layer to simplify use of APIs from multiple providers, though I'm also working on direct integration of model provider API keys.
It doesn't have a Neovim plugin, but I'd imagine it would be one of the easier IDEs to integrate with given that it's also terminal-based. I will look into it—also would be happy to accept a PR if someone wants to take a crack at it.