The agents are separate from the models. Claude Code only allows you to use Claude, but Aider allows you to use any model.

How does that solve the problem of closed models being better than open models?

There is no problem. OP said we should be using open _agents_, not open _models_. You can use an open agent with any model, open or closed, while using something like Claude Code locks you in to one model vendor

I know what OP said and I asked a question in turn.

Wait?

And get superseded by competitors willing to spend on those models?

Steal from them shamelessly, the same way they stole from everyone else?

You are onto something.

Seems ethically sound to me.

Isn't abusing the OpenAI terms of service part of how Deepseek did training?