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Products that do what Verdent – AI coding agent that plans, tests, and ships does
Hi HN! We just launched Verdent, an AI coding agent that actually plans before it codes, tests its own work, and delivers production-ready results without you having to clean up after it. tl;dr Check out the website [1] and read the story [2] - The problem: Current AI tools dump code and leave you to debug. You ask for "build a login endpoint" and get a passwordless JWT mess that doesn't fit your project. We've talked to hundreds of engineers who are frustrated with having to micromanage AI output. - What we built: Verdent works more like a senior engineer. It asks clarifying questions…
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Hey HN! I’m Dane, the creator of Plandex (https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex), an open source AI coding agent focused especially on tackling large tasks in real world software projects. You can watch a 2 minute demo of Plandex in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSu2vNmlLk And here’s more of a tutorial style demo showing how Plandex can automatically debug a browser application: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-_76U_nK0Y. I launched Plandex v1 here on HN a little less than a year ago…
2025 · github.com
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hi guys. been working on something i think is fundamentally missing in today's workflow with ai agents. vcs. i find myself struggling with questions that agents can't answer like "why did you do it?", "when did u delete this folder? why?", etc. or trying to /rewind (after a /compact...) or basically `bisect` to find when and why something was done by the agent in the current / previous session. just like git did for code, i think we are the same core capabilities with ai agents so... i developed an open source solution for that (currently supporting claude code) would love to…
May 2026 · github.com
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