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Does it have different goals than: https://aider.chat ?

Probably to be fully autonomous, vs guided like aider.

I still think a tool like aider is where AI is heading, these "agents" are built upon running systems that are 15% error prone and just compound errors with little ability to actually correct them.

Yeah, it has more agency, looks up docs, installs dependencies, writes and runs tests.

Aider is more understandable to me, doing small chunks of work, but it won't do a google search to find usage, etc. It depends on you to choose which files to put in context and so on.

I wish aider had a bit more of the self directedness of this, but API calls and token usage would be greatly increased.

Edit: or maybe an agency loop like this steering aider based on a larger goal would be useful?

My project Plandex[1] fits somewhere between aider and opendevin in terms of autonomy, so you might find it interesting. It attempts to complete a task autonomously in terms of implementing all the code, regardless of how many steps that takes, but it doesn’t yet try to auto-select context, execute code, or debug its own errors. Though it does have a syntax validation step and a general verification step that can auto-fix common issues.

1 - https://plandex.ai

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