Launched this week
Bullet
30-60% faster than Claude Code and Codex
378 followers
30-60% faster than Claude Code and Codex
378 followers
Bullet is a coding agent built for speed. We got tired of burning hours waiting on agent runs. The models were fine, but the loops around them were slow. Bullet auto-picks the right model/reasoning level per prompt, parallelizes searches/reads/commands, and uses targeted code search instead of embedding your whole repo. Works with your Claude Code or Codex subscription, API keys, or an on-device model. 95.8% on SWE-bench Verified (top 3), 119s/task. Built by Yale CS grads, ex-AppLovin/Citadel.
Bullet
Hey everyone, my name is Alex Sima and I am the CTO of Bullet.
Like the post said, we built Bullet because Claude Code and Codex were too slow. Our YC partner said we should solve a problem we face ourselves, so we decided to go big or go home (guess we decided to go small and lightweight but ok).
We now only use Bullet internally...and personally, I can't go back to using Claude Code. If you hate slow coding agents, join the club: https://www.codewithbullet.com.
You can bring your subscriptions over, so it's free speed -- enjoy :)
Bullet
@alex_sima26Â Nice to meet you CTO!
tash
@alex_sima26Â Awesome work Alex!
Would love to see more screenshots of the GUI and how subscriptions can be brought over vs API routing. Settings are also of interest to me to see how customizable this thing is.
I've been using Claude Code CLI for a long time now (since beta days), so I have all of my scaffolding in place. As you know, old habits die hard so it's hard for me to just make the jump and bite the bullet, pun intended. I'm convinced it's unbelievably fast compared to my setup, but my setup does so much of the work for me that it's hard to compare the delta between both...
Bullet
@privard Hey Phil, integrating your existing subscriptions is super easy, you pretty much just have to sign in to your account and it will connect.
By scaffolding do you mean skills and such? You can migrate all your skills from Claude Code and Codex in Bullet, and we also provide a CLI as well if that's your interface of choice :)
@alex_sima26Â Thanks for the reply and the ss!
Yeah, skills, rules, hooks, agents, claude.md, etc. at the user level + at the project. I have 20-25 ongoing projects with different settings and claude.md files and the way I often use CC is that I have my user-level session and my project-level sessions in parallel where my project sessions inform how I build the harness and scaffold at the user level so it trickles down across all projects... anyways, was simply curious of the surface you were "importing" from, if any. Cheers!
ProductBridge
Congrats on the launch@alex_sima26@adi_kulkarni! Does Bullet also help stretch usage limits, or is it just speed? Any benchmarks or stats on token savings?
Bullet
@adi_kulkarni @rohithreddy Interesting you mention that, we were actually speaking with some users who were saying that Bullet usage lasts longer because it finishes tasks faster (and we do routing) but doing token saving benchmarks is definitely on our to-do list!
ProductBridge
@adi_kulkarni @alex_sima26 Nice. âYour subscription lasts longerâ might be an even bigger hook than speed. Good luck!Â
Congrats! This is so cool :) Quick question â besides the Minecraft clone example in the video, what are some other real-world coding tasks where you think Bulletâs speed improvements would make the biggest difference?
Bullet
@christian_thomas7Â Thanks Christian! all real-world coding tasks are fair game, we used Bullet to build Bullet, and others have used it to build their own products! (anything from apps to backend distributed systems)
Bullet
Hi everyone, my name is @adi_kulkarni and Iâm the CEO of Bullet.
Existing coding agents were too slow for our development workflows, especially when iterating on a feature synchronously. Even when they finished, there would be a mistake so countless hours were wasted in this loop. After a certain amount of context accumulates in a session, both the agent and I are confused about the actual state of the feature!
Thus, we built Bullet to make coding agents faster, more focused, and easier to iterate with. It automatically chooses the right model and reasoning level, runs independent work in parallel, and uses targeted code search instead of dragging unnecessary context through every step.
We built Bullet for ourselves first, and now weâre excited to share it with everyone. Would love to hear what you all think!
Bullet
@adi_kulkarni Hey Adi, CEO of Bullet
Bullet
@adi_kulkarni Really cool mission man
Pinnacle
I would love to download and start using this today, but can't justify burning tokens when claude code is $200 a month and I spend $3-4k worth of tokens :(
Bullet
@rishab_mehra Hey Rishab, actually you can bring your own subscription and use that to power the models inside! No extra cost to you, just sign in with OAuth
Pinnacle
@adi_kulkarni nice okay I'll give it a shot
Voquill
Congrats on the launch! Waiting on coding agents is easily one of the most annoying parts right now, so cutting down iteration time is a big win.
Bullet
@henry_habib Thanks Henry!
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@henry_habib Appreciate it Henry!