jbentley1 (u/jbentley1)

jbentley1 commented on Claude Haiku 4.5 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

caymanjim · 2 months ago

Ain't nobody got time to pick models and compare features. It's annoying enough having to switch from one LLM ecosystem to another all the time due to vague usage restrictions. I'm paying $20/mo to Anthropic for Claude Code, to OpenAI for Codex, and previously to Cursor for...I don't even know what. I know Cursor lets you select a few different models under the covers, but I have no idea how they differ, nor do I care.

I just want consistent tooling and I don't want to have to think about what's going on behind the scenes. Make it better. Make it better without me having to do research and pick and figure out what today's latest fashion is. Make it integrate in a generic way, like TLS servers, so that it doesn't matter whether I'm using a CLI or neovim or an IDE, and so that I don't have to constantly switch tooling.

jbentley1 · 2 months ago

You can use Crystal (https://github.com/stravu/crystal) to run Codex and Claude Code at the same time and just pick the best result.

jbentley1 commented on Compare Claude Code and Codex with one click github.com/stravu/crystal... · Posted by u/jbentley1

jbentley1 · 2 months ago

We built a tool to use Git Worktrees to manage all of our in-progress agents. It's expanded from just Claude Code to having Codex support, and I'm loving running them side by side. They see things from different angles, make different UX choices, find bugs the other one doesn't, etc.

Just having the model variety is helpful, it is my default way to work now for every prompt I submit.

jbentley1 commented on Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle simonwillison.net/2025/Oc... · Posted by u/jbredeche

simonw · 2 months ago

There are quite a few products designed to help manage multiple agents at once. I'm trying out Conductor right now - https://conductor.build/ - it's a pretty slick macOS desktop app that handles running Claude Code within a GUI and uses Git worktrees to manage separate checkouts at the same time.

jbentley1 · 2 months ago

Check out Crystal, similar but open source https://github.com/stravu/crystal

jbentley1 commented on Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle simonwillison.net/2025/Oc... · Posted by u/jbredeche

jbentley1 · 2 months ago

I do this every day! In fact, I built a new type of IDE around this (https://github.com/stravu/crystal) and I can never go back.

jbentley1 commented on Show HN: FleetCode – Open-source UI for running multiple coding agents github.com/built-by-as/Fl... · Posted by u/asdev

jbentley1 · 2 months ago

I've built something very similar but am further along (https://github.com/stravu/crystal). I understand the desire to do your own thing, but if you are interested in joining forces and contributing I would love to have you. I think we were thinking along very similar lines.

jbentley1 commented on Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows? alexmolas.com/2025/07/28/... · Posted by u/alexmolas

jbentley1 · 2 months ago

I use Crystal which archives all my old claude code conversations, I've had to do this a few times when I threw out code that I later realized I needed.

jbentley1 commented on Show HN: ASCII Drawing Board delopsu.com/draw.html... · Posted by u/delopsu

jbentley1 · 3 months ago

I'm going to use this for all of my Slack replies

jbentley1 commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025) · Posted by u/david927

jbentley1 · 3 months ago

A new type of development environment for working with agents

https://github.com/stravu/crystal

It supports Claude Code and Codex, but has you constantly working on multiple features in Git worktrees. This way you are always able to stay busy while waiting on your agents.

It has built in tools for review, such as a diff viewer, and a quick button to run your application in different worktrees for testing. It has completely transformed the way I work.