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

#11

It's pretty annoying that every project like this lately is just a wrapper for OpenAI API calls.

Supporting more models, including Claude, Gemini, and open source models is definitely at the top of the roadmap. Would that make it less annoying? :)

I think Mistral-2-Pro would work really well for this, judging by the great results I've had with it on another heavy on tool calling project [1]

[1] https://github.com/radareorg/r2ai

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

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post #10

In demo it modified UI components, is there any model that can look at the rendered page to see if it looks right? Right now all these wrappers just blindly edit the code.

Plandex can't do this yet, but soon I want to add GPT4-vision (and other multi-modal models) as model options, which will enable this kind of workflow.

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

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Supporting more models, including Claude, Gemini, and open source models is definitely at the top of the roadmap. Would that make it less annoying? :)

I think Mistral-2-Pro would work really well for this, judging by the great results I've had with it on another heavy on tool calling project [1] [1] https://github.com/radareorg/r2ai

Thanks, I'll give it a try. Plandex's model settings are version-controlled like everything else and play well with branches, so it will be fun to start comparing how all different kinds of models do vs. each other on longer coding tasks using a branch for each one.

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

#14

It's pretty annoying that every project like this lately is just a wrapper for OpenAI API calls.

Supporting more models, including Claude, Gemini, and open source models is definitely at the top of the roadmap. Would that make it less annoying? :)

https://github.com/ollama/ollama

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

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post #10

In demo it modified UI components, is there any model that can look at the rendered page to see if it looks right? Right now all these wrappers just blindly edit the code.

I paired mine with VSCode and used the live view addon for that folder. So far so good.

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

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post #10

In demo it modified UI components, is there any model that can look at the rendered page to see if it looks right? Right now all these wrappers just blindly edit the code.

Plandex can't do this yet, but soon I want to add GPT4-vision (and other multi-modal models) as model options, which will enable this kind of workflow.

Well I have built similar project that lives in github action, communicates via issues and sends PR when done.

4-vision isn't there yet. It can mostly OCR or pattern recognize the image if it's popular or has some known object. It cannot detect pixel differences or css/alignment issues.

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

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It's pretty annoying that every project like this lately is just a wrapper for OpenAI API calls.

OpenAI API is simply a utility. The question is given this utility, how does one find the right use case, structure the correct context, and build the right UX.

OP has certainly built something interesting here and added significant value on top of the base utility of the OpenAI API.

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