Codebuff Launch Week, Day 2 — Max mode
Run "codebuff --max" to unlock a Gemini/Sonnet hybrid, which may be the best coding agent ever
Hello fellow Buffers,
Today is one of the releases I’m most excited about! We’ve overhauled the Max mode into a state of the art agent that does more thinking at every step.
Simply run codebuff --max, and prompt away:
We’ve spiced up this mode to use a really interesting combination of models:
Gemini 2.5 Pro for its planning abilities
Claude Sonnet 3.6 for its reliable tool calling
The resulting hybrid thus can craft brilliant plans and execute on them. It seems to work really well in early tests.
In addition, max mode also will read more files. This plays to Gemini’s strengths as it remain coherent at much larger context windows than other models:
For example, Gemini 2.5 Pro reach 90% on this benchmark for 120k tokens, where others hover around 40-60%.
Give it a shot, and see how you like it! It is a bit more expensive, however, it’s much cheaper than using o3 would be, for what appears to be much better results.
Codebuff —max may be the best coding agent on the market today. We will look into some benchmarks to prove it.
Thanks for reading. We still have 3 more days of launches this week, get hyped!
Cheers,
James