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The CLI for this feels extremely buggy, Im attempting to build the application but the screen is flickering like crazy: https://streamable.com/d2jrvt

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Yeah, we have a PR in the works for this (https://github.com/appdotbuild/platform/issues/166), should be fixed tomorrow!

Alright sounds good. Question, what LLM model does this use out of the box? Is it using the models provided by Github (after I give it access)?

We use both Claude 4 and Gemini by default (for different tasks). But the idea is you can self-host this and use other models (and even BYOM - bring your own models).

If you run locally you can mix and match any anthropic / gemini models. As long as it satisfies this protocol https://github.com/appdotbuild/agent/blob/4e0d4b5ac03cee0548... you can plug in anything.

We have a similar wrapper for local LLMs on the roadmap.

If you use CLI only - we run claude 4 + gemini on the backend, gemini serving most of the vision tasks (frontend validation) and claude doing core codegen.

Average experience for AI-made/related products.

Exactly. Non-AI projects have always been easy to build without issues. That's why we have so many build systems. We perfected it the first try and then made lots of new versions based on that perfect Makefile.

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