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

#31
This looks great!

With the self-host option, it’s not really clear through the docs if one is able to override the base url of the different model providers?

I’m running my own OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex and Bedrock compatible API, can I have it use that instead?

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

#32

It seems that much like Aider, you use separate models for creating code edits and validating them. That's a win in my book. It seems Claude Code does not do that, which is part of the reason it racks up a (relatively) large bill for long work sessions (that and the cost of sonnet-3.7). I bounce back and forth between Aider, Claude Code, and Simon Willison's LLM tool ("just" a GOOD wrapper for using LLMs at the CLI,…

orbstack > docker on mac

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

#33
I noticed there's an example in the docs: plandex rm app/**/*.ts # by glob pattern.

However, looking at the code (https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex/blob/main/app/cli/cmd/...), it seems you're using path/filepath for pattern matching, which doesn't support double star patterns. Here's a playground example showing that: https://go.dev/play/p/n8mFpJn-9iY

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

#35
post #4

I think you should have put the "terminal-based" qualifier in the title and lede.

Yeah that's fair enough. The way I look at it though, a lot of the value of Plandex is in the underlying infrastructure. While I've stuck with the terminal so far in order to try to keep a narrower focus, I plan to add other clients in the future.

You should talk to the folks at Warp, this plus Warp would be pretty interesting.

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

#36

It seems that much like Aider, you use separate models for creating code edits and validating them. That's a win in my book. It seems Claude Code does not do that, which is part of the reason it racks up a (relatively) large bill for long work sessions (that and the cost of sonnet-3.7). I bounce back and forth between Aider, Claude Code, and Simon Willison's LLM tool ("just" a GOOD wrapper for using LLMs at the CLI,…

orbstack > docker on mac

Should be noted that it's proprietary and requires paying for a license for commercial/business use.

https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq#free

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

#37

It seems that much like Aider, you use separate models for creating code edits and validating them. That's a win in my book. It seems Claude Code does not do that, which is part of the reason it racks up a (relatively) large bill for long work sessions (that and the cost of sonnet-3.7). I bounce back and forth between Aider, Claude Code, and Simon Willison's LLM tool ("just" a GOOD wrapper for using LLMs at the CLI,…

orbstack > docker on mac

switched to this and never looked back

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

#38

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.

Good luck with a quick git diff spanning thousands of lines. AI code can be notoriously verbose and over engineered. Of course you want to be in control.

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

#40
From the Github page: "curl -sL https://plandex.ai/install.sh | bash"

Enticing users to blindly run remote 3rd party code on their machines is IMHO not a proper thing to do.

This approach creates a dangerous mindset when it comes to security and good practices in general.

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