Usually it boils down these questions (this is given you have some sorts of AGENTS.md file):
- is this code that been written many times already?
- Is there a way to verify the solution? (think unit test, it has to be something agent can do on its own)
- Does the starting context has enough information for it to start going in the right direction? (I had claud and openhands instantly digging themselves holes, and then I realized there was zero context about the project)
- Is there anything remotely similar already done in the project?
> Are we at a stage where an LLM (assuming it doesn't find the solution on its own, which is ok) would come back to me and say, listen, I've tried your approach but I've run into this particular difficulty, can you advise me what to do, or would it just write incorrect code that I would then have to carefully read and realise what the challenge is myself?
I've had LLM telling me it couldn't do and offered me some alternative solutions. Some of them are useful and working; some of them are useful, but you have a better one; Some feel like they made by a non-technical guy at a purely engineering meetings.
3.0
@hn_06c7e3
about 2 months ago
When I used it with Open Hands it was great but also quite expensive (~$8/hr). In Trea, it was pretty bad, but free. Maybe it depends on how the agents use it? (I was writing the same piece of software, a simple web crawler for a hobby RAG project.)
4.0
@hn_3e1982
about 2 months ago
Extremely happy with this release, the previous Devstral was great but training it for open hands crippled the usefulness. Having their own CLI dev tool will hopefully be better
3.0
@hn_bc29cd
about 2 months ago
Since this is on PySpur's website, does anyone have experience with these UI tools for AI agents like PySpur and n8n? I am looking for something to help me prototype a few ideas for fun. I would have to self-host it ($), so I would prefer something relatively easy to configure like Open Hands.
4.0
@hn_f1a08d
about 2 months ago
The bigger win comes not from saving keystrokes, but from saving you from a context switch.
Merge conflicts are probably the biggest one for me. I put up a PR and move onto a new task. Someone approves, but now there are conflicts. I could switch off my task, spend 5-10 min remembering the intent of this PR and fixing the issues. Or I could just say "@openhands fix the merge conflicts" and move back to my new task.