Maki – the efficient coder (AI agent)

by simjnd • 3 months ago

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Dahvay• 3 months ago

The individual subagent chat windows are a really nice touch. Most agent tools just run subagents in the background and you never see what they're doing. Giving each one its own window so you can jump in and course-correct without blowing up the whole run, that's very useful. It turns it from "launch and pray" into something you can actually steer.

The tiered model selection makes a lot of sense too. How does it handle escalation though? If a task kicks off on Haiku and the first attempt doesn't land, does it bump itself up to a stronger model automatically, or does the user have to start over?

tontinton• 3 months ago

Thanks!

Currently the subagent chat windows don't allow to inject user messages like the main window, I want to change that soon though.

Regarding tiered models, it currently caps the model use to the current tier you're on, so no it can't upgrade from haiku to opus suddenly. The reasoning for that is that if you selected haiku, you probably don't want to pay for opus by accident.

wrxd• 3 months ago

I like this direction. The approach of letting LLMs figure out stuff on their own is flexible but inefficient and getting more structure can be very beneficial.

Well done for actually parsing the shell commands the LLM wants to execute. Another case where doing things “the old way” is both more correct and secure

cyanydeez• 3 months ago

wish more coding tools benchmarked against local models to demo real improvements rather that reorganize the deck chairs.

back when compute had limits software developers improved their management and conceptual models.

:shakes fist at cloud:

Maki – the efficient coder (AI agent)

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