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Re: Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks

#91

I appreciate in the copy here that you are not claiming plandex to be a super dev or some such nonsense. I really dislike the hype marketing in some other solutions.

Thanks! I agree. I think the key to working effectively with LLMs is to understand and embrace their limitations, using them for tasks they're good at while not spinning the tires on tasks (or parts of tasks) that they aren't yet well-suited for.

Re: Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback! I actually had a ‘plandex diff’ command working at one point, but dropped it in favor of the changes TUI. I could definitely bring it back for people who prefer that format.

You could have a mode for people „who know what they are doing“ and just auto approve all the changes plandex makes and let users handle the changes themselves. I would actually prefer that, because I could keep using my IDE to look at diffs and decide what to keep.

Thanks, I'll consider this. It would be easy enough to add flags that will allow this.

Re: Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks

#93

To support many other models you should look at ollama - it provides a REST API on your machine for local inference that works just like OpenAI

Thanks, I'm aware of ollama and the open source model ecosystem, but I haven't done a deep dive yet, so all the info in this thread has been quite helpful.

Re: Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks

#95

Curious to know how you built this. Is it GPT-4 or a fine-tuned model. How much does it cost?

It's written in Go. The models that it uses are configurable, but it mostly uses gpt-4-turbo by default currently. It calls the OpenAI API on your behalf with your own API key. No fine-tuning yet, though I'm interested in trying that in the future.

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#96

As someone who is trying to build a bootstrapped startup in spare time (read: coding while tired), this is amazing. Thank you so much for creating it.

Thanks! I agree it's great for coding while tired. I also like it when I'm procrastinating or feeling lazy. I find it helps to reduce the activation energy of getting started.

Re: Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks

#97

Curious to know how you built this. Is it GPT-4 or a fine-tuned model. How much does it cost?

It's written in Go. The models that it uses are configurable, but it mostly uses gpt-4-turbo by default currently. It calls the OpenAI API on your behalf with your own API key. No fine-tuning yet, though I'm interested in trying that in the future.

Appreciate the response. Really cool work!

Re: Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks

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Are you using plandex to write improvements to plandex?

Yes, quite often! Some of the most complex bits involving stream handling and concurrency were easier to do myself, but it’s been very helpful for http handlers, CLI commands, formatted output, TUIs, AWS infrastructure, and a lot more. I’ve also used it to track down bugs.

Re: Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks

#100

To support many other models you should look at ollama - it provides a REST API on your machine for local inference that works just like OpenAI

Thanks, I'm aware of ollama and the open source model ecosystem, but I haven't done a deep dive yet, so all the info in this thread has been quite helpful.

In theory, all you have to do is redirect the API gateway to localhost and all your existing integrations should just work!
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