I've been using Augment Code since March as my primary coding agent. I'm use JetBrains IDEs (mostly IntelliJ and RubyMine) and good support for those was a big reason I went with Aigment.
I've been primarily using it on my side projects and been loving it. It's only been getting better.
I recently started a consulting engagement and have been burning through about 30,000-40,000 credits on an average day. That's about $20.
This weekend I'll try Claude Code on my side project and if that goes reasonably well, I'll continue using it during the week.
Resolution criteria. I'll be mostly traveling over the holidays and want to give Claude Code a fair shot and also see how costs come out. So this market won't close till end of January.
If on February 1st, Claude Code has replaced Augment Code as my regular, trusted coding companion, this market resolves YES.
If I return to Augment for an occasional task but primarily keep using Claude Code, this still resolves YES. It's about the default agent.
I'll not participate in this market.
1,000I've been using Claude Code exclusively for two days now. I already upgraded to the $100 Max plan yesterday.
The good:
The $100 plan seems sufficient. Augment would have likely cost me $400/months
The actual agent so far works just as well as the same models with the extra indexing from Augment
The bad:
The CLI works but it's just such a step down from the proper integration that Augment has. It flickers at times; sometimes it gets into a weird mode where there is a huge delay and deletes end up deleting the actual terminal text rather than my input
The permission configuration is soooo conservative and even importing huge permit-lists still has it frequently ask for permission to do trivial things.
I really wish I could use Claude Code with the GUI of Augment
Claude Code actually works pretty well in IDEA, so if the foundational concept of the terminal and the command line being the interface (basically, your cursor and typing will mostly live in the bottom window where your shell is, not in the upper half where we used to type in the code in the ancient times) appeals to you, you just might prefer it and stick with it. And from what I understand of Augment's pricing, you'll burn way fewer dollars with Claude.