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

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Post by j45 » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 8:02 PM UTC

codeapprove wrote: post #8

danenania wrote: post #5

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? :)

Not affiliated with the project but you could use something like OpenRouter to give users a massive list of models to choose from with fairly minimal effort https://openrouter.ai/

Would love to hear any feedback from people who have gotten to know OpenRouter, as well as any similar tools.

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

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Post by mbil » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 8:10 PM UTC

Looks really interesting. Is it wrapping git for the rollback and diffing stuff? If I were a user I'd probably opt to use git directly for that sort of thing.

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

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Post by kekebo » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 8:14 PM UTC

danenania wrote: post #9

codeapprove wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not affiliated with the project but you could use something like OpenRouter to give users a massive list of models to choose from with fairly minimal effort https://openrouter.ai/

Thanks, I need to spend some time digging into OpenRouter. The main requirement would be reliable function calling and JSON, since Plandex relies heavily on that. I'm also expecting to need some model-specific prompts, considering how much prompt iteration was needed to get things behaving how I wanted on OpenAI. I've also looked at Together ( https://www.together.ai/ ) for this purpose. Can anyone speak to the diffe…

I can't speak to the differences of Openrouter to Together but the Openrouter endpoint should work as a drop-in replacement for OpenAI api calls after replacing the endpoint url and the value of $OPENAI_API_KEY. The model names may differ to other apis but everything else should work the same.

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

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Post by danenania » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 8:15 PM UTC

rglover wrote: post #16

This is something I've been thinking a lot about (a way to set context for an LLM against my own code), thank you for putting this out. Looks really polished.

Thanks! Please let me know how it goes for you if you try it :)

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

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Post by danenania » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 8:20 PM UTC

mbil wrote: post #22

Looks really interesting. Is it wrapping git for the rollback and diffing stuff? If I were a user I'd probably opt to use git directly for that sort of thing.

Yes, it does use git underneath, with the idea of exposing a very simple subset of git functionality to the user. There's also some locking and transaction logic involved to ensure integrity and thread safety, so it wouldn't really be straightforward to expose the repo directly.

I tried to build the backend so that postgres, the file system, and git would combine to form effectively a single transactional database.

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

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Post by brap » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 8:20 PM UTC

This seems very interesting, but I think the interface choice is not good. There would have been much less friction if this was purely a GitHub/GitLab/etc bot.

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

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Post by ldelossa » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 8:21 PM UTC

Show me one of these things do something more complex then a front end intern project.

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

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Post by vertis » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 8:22 PM UTC

brap wrote: post #26

This seems very interesting, but I think the interface choice is not good. There would have been much less friction if this was purely a GitHub/GitLab/etc bot.

I disagree, having used Sweep extensively, I've found the GitHub Issue -> PR flow to be incredibly clunky with a lack of ability to see what is happening and what has gone wrong.

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

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Post by danenania » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 8:26 PM UTC

brap wrote: post #26

This seems very interesting, but I think the interface choice is not good. There would have been much less friction if this was purely a GitHub/GitLab/etc bot.

I see where you're coming from and I do plan to add a web UI and plugin/integration options in the future.

I personally wanted something with a tighter feedback loop that felt more akin to git. I also thought that simplifying the UI side would help me stay focused on getting the data structures and basic mechanics right in the initial version. But now that the core functionality is in place, I think it will work well as a base for additional frontends.

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

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Post by danenania » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 8:28 PM UTC

ldelossa wrote: post #27

Show me one of these things do something more complex then a front end intern project.

Here's a prompt I used to build the AWS infrastructure for Plandex Cloud with Plandex: https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex/blob/main/test/test_pr...