Comment by ramesh31

4 days ago

CLI interfaces are not where it's at for this stuff.

What makes Cline the king of codegen agents right now IMO (from a UI/UX perspective) is how well they handle displaying the code, opening files, and scrolling the cursor as it changes. Even in a fully autonomous agentic flow, you still really want to be reading the code as it is written, to maintain context and keep steering it correctly. Having to go back and look at a huge diff after all of your updates is a real pain and slows things down.

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victor9000  4 days ago

UI/UX is one of the last things I'm worried about when leveraging generative tools. When I need to inspect what the model has done, a quick git diff does the trick.

  • nidnogg  3 days ago

    Good luck with a quick git diff spanning thousands of lines. AI code can be notoriously verbose and over engineered. Of course you want to be in control.

    • danenania  3 days ago

      Just to note, apart from git diff style diffs, Plandex also offers a web UI for side-by-side diff comparison—similar to GitHub's PR review UI.