dirac
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ai coding agent
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How HN took it
7 positive, 44 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 8 critical, out of 63 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Execution: 2 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Hash-anchored edits and harness design praised as well done.
From 2 comments
The Hash-anchor edit guy! Sincerely great idea, I used it in my own toy harness to good effect. I just checked this out, never tried it before, and its great! Clearly a…
scoopdewoop on HN"astounding how much the harness matters" is the right read and it should be the lasting one. the model is rentable, the prompts are rentable, the benchmark numbers are mostly a…
avereveard on HN
Works well on large Rust refactoring.
From 1 comment
I am using dirac with Kimi 2.6 for refactoring a rust codebase. I have a Clean Architecture design which is being reinforced. The scope of work is laid out in a Beads epic with…
kha1n3vol3 on HN
Objections
Telemetry endpoint is opt-out and raised privacy concerns.
From 1 comment
I had a chance to look at this and noticed you were sending telemetry to an endpoint you control: https://dirac.run/v1/event. It doesn't seem like you're sending anything…
adyavanapalli on HN
Benchmark gains only shown on Gemini 3 Flash; generalization unclear.
From 1 comment
1. Would be good to benchmark at least one other model from a different family to see if it indeed generalizes. Minimax 2.7 seems a good candidate to keep it affordable. Until…
deaux on HN
Retry on rate-limit errors gets the session stuck.
From 1 comment
Thanks for publishing this. I tried it out and it works pretty well, nice job! I had the "feeling" the agent was more effective and accurate, not only cheaper. The only thing…
mrwolf on HN
Requests
Benchmark other model families.
From 1 comment
1. Would be good to benchmark at least one other model from a different family to see if it indeed generalizes. Minimax 2.7 seems a good candidate to keep it affordable. Until…
deaux on HN
Keep git history from the Cline fork.
From 1 comment
Sounds great, I saw your first post but haven't had the time to try it out. It's unfortunate that this is explicitly a fork of Cline but the commit history stops at a gigantic…
dbxfb on HN
Support for more models and providers, such as GPT-5.5.
From 2 comments
I keep trying to use dirac-cli with codex and it won't work: Error: Codex API error: Codex API request failed: 400. Any ideas?
redrove on HNhey there! thanks for the project! I was intrigued with the claims so I wanted to test it myself. First I (vibe)made an AUR package I could use to install it from git source,…
gchamonlive on HN
Questions
How does it perform on frontier models like Opus?
From 1 comment
how well does it do on frontier models like Opus 4.6?
snqb on HN
Does it support provider subscriptions and a plugin system?
From 1 comment
Very interesting! I see it works with different providers via API keys. Does it also support provider subscriptions (like Codex CLI)? And does it have a plugin system similar to…
0xmagic0 on HN
Alternatives named
Cline
From 1 comment
A few months ago one afternoon I was very frustrated with how slow Cline was being so decided to look under the hood. Decided to make a couple of changes. Got sucked in. About…
GodelNumbering on HN
pi
From 2 comments
Interesting. Would love a comparison to pi.dev (Not Ohmypi) How does this perform in day to day coding tasks, outside of benchmarks?
Mashimo on HNI haven't tried it, but I'm curious why you decided to implement a whole new harness over just writing extensions in pi. From whatever I've done with pi so far, the extension api…
adyavanapalli on HN
OpenCode
From 2 comments
Can't OpenCode reach the same just developing this as a feature or plug-in? Like anchored edit?
nthypes on HNI am using dirac with Kimi 2.6 for refactoring a rust codebase. I have a Clean Architecture design which is being reinforced. The scope of work is laid out in a Beads epic with…
kha1n3vol3 on HN
Claude Code
From 1 comment
Stared it. will try it later. one question though, to make it simpler for me, in what tasks does this model shine, how do you improve the score? I already use some skills to cut…
blueTiger33 on HN