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Re: Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks

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Post by ramesh31 »

CLI interfaces are not where it's at for this stuff.

What makes Cline the king of codegen agents right now IMO (from a UI/UX perspective) is how well they handle displaying the code, opening files, and scrolling the cursor as it changes. Even in a fully autonomous agentic flow, you still really want to be reading the code as it is written, to maintain context and keep steering it correctly. Having to go back and look at a huge diff after all of your updates is a real pain and slows things down.

Re: Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks

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Post by jtwaleson »

Nice! I tried it out when you launched last year but found it pretty expensive to use. I believe I spent $5 for half an hour of coding or so. Can you share what the typical costs are now, since the model prices have changed significantly?

Re: Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks

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Post by victor9000 »

ramesh31 wrote: post #21

CLI interfaces are not where it's at for this stuff. What makes Cline the king of codegen agents right now IMO (from a UI/UX perspective) is how well they handle displaying the code, opening files, and scrolling the cursor as it changes. Even in a fully autonomous agentic flow, you still really want to be reading the code as it is written, to maintain context and keep steering it correctly. Having to go back and look…

UI/UX is one of the last things I'm worried about when leveraging generative tools. When I need to inspect what the model has done, a quick git diff does the trick.

Re: Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks

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Post by [deleted] »

victor9000 wrote: post #23
ramesh31 wrote: post #21

CLI interfaces are not where it's at for this stuff. What makes Cline the king of codegen agents right now IMO (from a UI/UX perspective) is how well they handle displaying the code, opening files, and scrolling the cursor as it changes. Even in a fully autonomous agentic flow, you still really want to be reading the code as it is written, to maintain context and keep steering it correctly. Having to go back and look…

UI/UX is one of the last things I'm worried about when leveraging generative tools. When I need to inspect what the model has done, a quick git diff does the trick.

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Re: Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks

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Post by LeonidBugaev »

sagarpatil wrote: post #26

I spend hours everyday researching AI products. Why am I only hearing about plandex now? Looks very promising, I’ll give it a try. Please up your marketing game, the product looks solid!

You should check https://probeai.dev/ too. Thats one of those building blocks which makes AI trully understand the code.

Re: Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks

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Post by viraptor »

sagarpatil wrote: post #26

I spend hours everyday researching AI products. Why am I only hearing about plandex now? Looks very promising, I’ll give it a try. Please up your marketing game, the product looks solid!

Maybe because they had a release hiatus for a bit. V1 was cool and had great ideas / interface, but needed some polish in practice (new models weren't well supported, it for in endless cycles, etc.) The explicit planning, server model, visible steps and a few other novel things were impressive though.

Hopefully the V2 will bring the polish and reliability.

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