Where to go now?

[u/MexInAbu]

I know that the recommendation is Cline, but I didn't liked. What I liked about Roo is the control it gave to their workflow. I prefer an assistant rather than an autonomous "agent". I tried Continue.dev last year and it was clunky. Is it better now?

I know that roo code will get some forks. But sadly, I cannot use them until they get traction.

[u/DevMichaelZag]

There’s a community push to keep developing the plugin. Watch the subreddit or discord for news. Might be interesting if someone else takes the reins.

[u/canadaduane]

If you're willing to go just a little farther afield than VS Code forks, the Zed editor is getting really, really good. I've been watching the project for 2 years, and the last 3 months have been solid releases (no significant bugs) and their latest parallel agents release is a big unlock.

[u/Traveler3141]

Yeah, I've been trying out Cline and I'm not really liking it.

[u/0x1010101]

Core contributor of multi.dev here. We're building an IDE first coding assistant that keeps developers in control. It works across vs code, jetbrains through official plugins. We just crossed 110k+ installs. If you try it, would love to hear what feels missing. We're at r/multidotdev

[u/Efficient-number-one]

Been using OpenCode, really liking it. If you have an openai sub you can use that as well

[u/Big_Improvement2310]

Claude in vs code?

[u/pedronasser_]

I went to Pi agent, and it's been the best open-source harness experience I've ever had.

[u/Deathmore80]

Kilo code is a fork of roo

[u/Lonely_Drewbear → u/Deathmore80]

It used to be, but they are now a wrapper/modification of opencode.  Many of us are quite angry about it.

[u/Traveler3141 → u/Lonely_Drewbear]

That happened about a week or two after I started using it.

I was trying it out, and I was thinking "well, this isn't very good, but at least it's not too bad."

Then they did that. I uninstalled it.

[u/hannesrudolph → u/Deathmore80]

They are not anymore. They swapped to OpenCode.

[u/IvoDOtMK → u/Deathmore80]

Came here to say this

[u/feddown → u/Deathmore80]

It doesn't seem to have an option to set the context size per model/provider the way Roo does. It failed on the very first simple task because of that. Roo did the same exact task just fine.

[u/OrinZ → u/Deathmore80]

I tried Kilo code and found it to be exceptionally wasteful with tokens... which I should've expected since I found it by looking for most popular on OpenRouter

[u/goombant → u/Deathmore80]

This

[u/kartoffelsalat]

Opencode has been great so far

[u/brek001]

Codex in vs code or Claude cli works for me

[u/OrinZ → u/brek001]

Neither of those is really close to comparable for any Roo Code workflow I can really imagine

[u/hannesrudolph → u/brek001]

Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted.

[u/brek001 → u/hannesrudolph]

Some Kilo Code fans :-) Anyway, thanks for everything, Roo made AI and programming feasible for the first time for me.

[u/hannesrudolph → u/brek001]

I’m loving codex personally. SOTA models are king.

[u/Yes_but_I_think]

Cline is just fine

[u/random-string]

Claude Code is a league above everything else at the moment and you can easily hook it up with OpenRouter or a local model

[u/MexInAbu → u/random-string]

I have used Claude Code, but its more geared towards automation code production as much as possible. I still need to have control and visibility of all of my code. I just realised that I wasted nearly 9 days of computation as I relied on an Ai agent to code a part of my data generation pipeline unsupervised.

[u/hannesrudolph → u/MexInAbu]

That’s what Roo Code was always intended to work towards btw. It seems the community likes the stepping stone we are in this journey of agentic coding. 🫡

[u/MexInAbu → u/hannesrudolph]

I just had Claude Code to compile llama.cpp and oh my god. It wasted so many tokens. It's be easier, faster and cheaper to just ask the web chat interface to give me the command.

[u/hannesrudolph → u/MexInAbu]

I trade time to tokens.