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I haven't yet spent any time with it myself, but the impression I have been getting is that it is the most credible of the vendor-independent terminal coding agents right now.

Claude Code, Codex CLI and Gemini CLI are all (loosely) locked to their own models.

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This is good to know. I’ll probably play around with it sometime in the future.

BTW, appreciate your many great write-ups - they’ve been invaluable for keeping up to date in this space.

As far as I know it only uses sonnet 4.5

It's currently Sonnet 4.5 by default but uses GPT-5 for the "oracle" second opinion, according to https://ampcode.com/manual#oracle

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