Bullet - 30-60% faster than Claude Code and Codex
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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.
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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_sima26 Nice to meet you CTO!
tash
@alex_sima26 Awesome work Alex!
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!
Bullet
@henry_habib Appreciate it Henry!
Bullet
Hi everyone, my name is @adi_kulkarni and I’m 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 we’re 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
Freebuff
congrats on the launch guys! looks very impressive, excited to see where this goes!!!
Bullet
@darweenist Thanks Dawson!!! We learn from the greats 🙂↕️
Bullet
@darweenist thanks Dawson, appreciate it man!
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. “Your subscription lasts longer” might be an even bigger hook than speed. Good luck!
Congrats! This is so cool :) Quick question — besides the Minecraft clone example in the video, what are some other real-world coding tasks where you think Bullet’s speed improvements would make the biggest difference?
Bullet
@christian_thomas7 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)
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
Bullet so fast I can't even doomscroll inbetween agent sessions anymore
Bullet
@haita thanks exactly what we’re solving for haha!
Thena
Congrats Alex and team, this looks great!
Bullet
@govikavaturi thanks Govind!
Best coding agent!! Lets go team!
Bullet
@sam_turchetta appreciate it Sam!