Re:Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
by danenania on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @10:41PM
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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 :-/
Re:Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
by sdesol on Thursday April 11, 2024 @12:31AM
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> 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?
Re:Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
by danenania on Thursday April 11, 2024 @12:37AM
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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.
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!