Command-line AI Coding Interaction

The convention is to open Trae and prepare to start coding, and a notification arrives: the Claude model has been shut down and cannot be used; it’s highly likely that it won’t be recovered. The official provided a compensation plan, increasing usage by 300 (as of January).
Checking it out, as expected, Anthropic is following US regulations to prohibit domestic companies from continuing to use the Claude series models. I joined the trae Discord community and saw many people complaining about the shutdown of the Claude model – after all, most people came here for Claude. The signs had already appeared before the Claude 4.5 model was synchronized on Trae; it hadn’t launched.

Attempt

With a last-ditch effort, I experimented with other models that are still supported, including OpenAI’s gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4, and Google’s Gemini Pro.

How to put it… the results weren’t very ideal. I don’t know how the Trae offshore team developed them; according to logic, there shouldn’t be such a huge difference. The prompts used for testing were the same as those I practiced with on my previous hand-built project: Xiaolan Shu (Little Blue Book), which I had written about in articles before.

Adding to that, I was dissatisfied with the Trae IDE itself, so I emailed the Trae team requesting a refund.

Changes

It wasn’t misremembered – Google released the first terminal-based AI programming, which was more general-purpose than daily smart suggestions in IDEs and allowed developers to continue using their original development environments.

OpenAI and Anthropic both released Claude Code and Codex; these tools and models aren’t completely tied together, and you can integrate other models by modifying configuration files.

In the Discord community, someone mentioned minimax m2 and glm4 – both are small blue book projects domestically. I tried the former and it was pretty good.

Installation requires a VPN connection. To switch between different models, I recommend: https://github.com/farion1231/cc-switch

claude code

Depends on node js, command: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

╭─── Claude Code v2.0.33 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                    │ Tips for getting started                                          │
│            Welcome back!           │ Run /init to create a CLAUDE.md file with instructions for Claude │
│                                    │ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
│               ▐▛███▜▌              │ Recent activity                                                   │
│              ▝▜█████▛▘             │ No recent activity                                                │
│                ▘▘ ▝▝               │                                                                   │
│                                    │                                                                   │
│   minimax-m2 · API Usage Billing   │                                                                   │
│          F:\dev\notebook           │                                                                   │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

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> Try "create a util logging.py that..."
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  ! for bash mode       double tap esc to clear input      ctrl + _ to undo
  / for commands        alt + m to auto-accept edits       alt + v to paste images
  @ for file paths      ctrl + o for verbose output
  # to memorize         ctrl + t to show todos
                        tab to toggle thinking
                        backslash (\) + return (⏎) for 
                        newline

codex

Not yet experienced, reference materials: https://platform.minimaxi.com/docs/guides/text-ai-coding-tools#%E5%9C%A8-codex-cli-%E4%B8%AD%E4%BD%BF%E7%94%A8-minimax-m2