Just a quick note to say that the Canarat makes sound again! Very happy about this. A quick video proof!
Now all I have to do is redo the useless tone circuit (which is not what I built, strange as that seems).
... and take it out of the case again …
A couple weeks ago, I temporarily switched to using GPT-5 as my exclusive coding assistant model, via Cursor. This was prompted by two developments:
First of all, I was curious to try GPT-5, which had some buzz as a new contender the latest state of the art coding model. But …
Running it:
aider --model openrouter/moonshotai/kimi-k2
Once I got into a groove with it, it did some things well:
Using it:
aider --model openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528
I didn't use Deepseek very long - just part of a day on two occasions- and didn't keep very detailed notes. It was kind of slow and made too …
Via OpenRouter, https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-coder. Start it like this:
aider --model openrouter/qwen/qwen3-coder`
I only used it for part of a day, but I literally spent a total of $0.10 on Q3C to do …
Some rough impression after programming mainly with Aider. I first used it exclusively for about 4 days back in March, using version 0.77 and mostly using Claude Sonnet 3.7. More recently I've been using it . and then again for a week end of July, using 0.80.2 …