Hey all, Like many I’ve tried using the open source models like GLM 5.3 and Deepseek with an opensource harness like Aider. I’m finding it to be a nightmare of unproductivity. Claude Code with Opus 4.8 has been great. From the start (running on --dangerously-skip-permissions) its been proactive in understanding the project and working towards completing the task. Aider with the opensource models is like a whiney entitled intern who refuses to do basic exploratory work to understand a project or fetch the files it needs to understand the tasks. It wants me to hand feed it every file in the git repo to complete the work. Is this just a configuration error? Is Claude Code just that much better at being proactive? Curious how people are getting value out of these open source models without dramatically increasing your own workload. submitted by /u/Electronic_Tooth_500
Originally posted by u/Electronic_Tooth_500 on r/ClaudeCode
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