Ask HN: Claude Code Alternative

Claude pretty much killed the cli app for Pro users. The new usage limits mostly make it useless. I am not a pretty heavy user, and rarely reached the previous limit. Even my context rarely reached auto-compact limit.

Now it takes me 20-30 minutes of use to reach the session limit. I can upgrade to higher tier, but he next higher tier costs 10 times the current tier.

I tried Gemini CLI, and it is good. But the inability to whitelist/blacklist terminal commands makes it too counterintuitive. If I have to approve every terminal command, then I might as well run them myself and save the token cost.

I believe Qwen-coder is based on Gemini CLI and has similar issues. Is there any other alternative?