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danenania ◴[10 Apr 24 21:55 UTC] No.39996120[source]▶
People interested in Aider (which is an awesome tool) might also be interested in checking out my project Plandex[1]. It's terminal-based like Aider and has a somewhat comparable set of features, but is more focused on using LLMs to work on larger and more complex tasks that span many files and model responses. It also uses a git-style CLI approach with independent commands for each action vs. Aider's interactive shell.

I studied Aider's code and prompts quite a bit in the early stages of building Plandex. I'm grateful to Paul for building it and making it open source.

1 - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex

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1. joshstrange ◴[11 Apr 24 01:20 UTC] No.39997471[source]▶
I _cannot_ wait for you to get local models working with this (I know, they need function calling/streaming first). It's amazing! I burned through $10 like it was nothing and bigger context+local is going to make this killer IMHO. It needs additional guidance and with more context maybe loading lint rules into the context would get back code matching my coding style/guide but even as-is there is a ton of value here.

It was able to rewrite (partially, some didn't get fully done) 10 files before I hit my budget limits from Vue 2 Class Component syntax to Vue 3 Composition API. It would have needed another iteration or so to iron out the issues (plus some manual clean up/checking from me) but that's within spitting distance of being worth it. For now I'll use ChatGPT/Claude (which I pay for) to do this work but I will keep a close eye on this project, it's super cool!

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2. danenania ◴[11 Apr 24 02:41 UTC] No.39997896[source]▶
Thanks for trying it and your feedback. I'm keeping tabs on open source/local models and will include them as soon as it's feasible.

I hear you on the API costs. You should see my OpenAI bills from building Plandex :-/

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3. panqueca ◴[11 Apr 24 04:25 UTC] No.39998360[source]▶
If you're thinking it is expensive, wait until you start to play with Claude Opus. Sooner or later I will declare bankrupt

Nice product BTW. I really liked the UI, is very polished

4. sdesol ◴[11 Apr 24 04:31 UTC] No.39998391[source]▶
> You should see my OpenAI bills from building Plandex :-/

Sorry if you have answered this before, but can you estimate how many man hours were saved using OpenAI or was the high usage more test related?

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5. danenania ◴[11 Apr 24 04:37 UTC] No.39998426{3}[source]▶
I have used Plandex a lot to help build Plandex faster, but yeah the high API costs are much more due to testing, where I need to run large tasks over and over in rapid succession in order to debug problems or iterate on the built-in prompts.