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Comment by invisibleink 4 days ago

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Building https://multi.dev, an AI coding agent with bunch of FOSS contributors

We took a great amount of learning from tools like Cline, Roo.. After spending some time on their tech as active users/devs, we decided to build multi from scratch with drastically different take on core features, tech stack, ux/devex..

If you are an active user of similar tools, and/or want to try multi.. We want to hear from you.

-- edit: I am one of the core contributors to multi. And we are in the process of open sourcing it.

extraN 3 days ago

I’ve been using tools like Cline and Roo-Code quite a bit, and the idea of rethinking the core stack/UX from scratch resonates a lot. The agent workflow and devex feel like the hardest problems to get right, so I’m curious how Multi approaches context management and long-running tasks compared to the others. Excited to see it open-sourced and will definitely give it a spin.

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  • invisibleink 3 days ago

    > I’ve been using tools like Cline and Roo-Code quite a bit, and the idea of rethinking the core stack/UX from scratch resonates a lot.

    Would love to learn more about your experience with cline. We spent quite some trying to add multi agent capabilities and improve the overall ux/devex of Cline (and its clone Roo) to make it more intutive for developers. we found that its stack is not built for these capabilities, and the codebase was not as stable as we would like it to be. it required a major rewrite, at that point being another cline clone made no sense to us.

    > The agent workflow and devex feel like the hardest problems to get right

    yes, AI coding agents are probably the most complex agents out there. our approach comes from actor model, where each agent manages its own event-loop. we found this is incredible robust way to build specialized agents that interact with one another within multi. Too early to say but

    > Excited to see it open-sourced and will definitely give it a spin.

    thanks. still brewing but will let you know. appreciate your feedback.

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benhnews 4 days ago

What's the difference? Tell me more.

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  • invisibleink 3 days ago

    we redesigned the whole system from ground up for robustness, speed, scale and multi agent capabilities.

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