Plandex Review: Terminal-Based AI Coding Built for Large, Multi-Step Tasks
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Most AI coding tools are tuned for the inner loop: autocomplete a line, refactor a function, fix the test under your cursor. Plandex aims somewhere else. It is an open-source, terminal-based agent built around the assumption that the task you hand it spans many files and many steps — the kind of work where a single chat turn falls apart halfway through. We spent time running Plandex against real multi-file changes to see whether the design actually holds up, or whether "big task" is ju
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Most AI coding tools are tuned for the inner loop: autocomplete a line, refactor a function, fix the test under your cursor. Plandex aims somewhere else. It is an open-source, terminal-based agent built around the assumption that the task you hand it spans many files and many steps — the kind of work where a single chat turn falls apart halfway through. We spent time running Plandex against real multi-file changes to see whether the design actually holds up, or whether "big task" is ju
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