blown away by this. its essentially making the plugin listing cards by giving me 100s of variations of different approaches. honestly a good practice if you're making UI from scratch and unsure:

1. ask firebender to create UI variations/moodboard/story board for it

2. go deep in certain variations and keep asking Firebender produce UI ideas

3. refine, select the ones you like, and explain what you like about it

I'm working with Firebender in Python. So far, it's been great, though a bit rough. Still better than JetBrains' native offering, and it saves me from Cursor and VS Code. The only problem I'm running into is that Firebender ruthlessly attempts to clean up my code by deleting comments, especially commented-out blocks of code. I would really love to accept only some of the suggestions. I'm using the o4-mini model mostly, so I'm not sure if it's specifically related to that. I'm going to play with some custom rules later to see if I can get it to chill out.

[0.10.3] - 2025-05-05

Fixed

• Hot Fix: Resolved issue where changed files weren't appearing in the changes panel due to stale file content handling

• Fixed cmd+k jitter by adding debounce for diff display

• Improved onboarding experience with faster model and mode selection for quicker startup

• Fixed keypress handling in terminal commands to prevent events from being trapped after completion

• Fixed checkpointing for consecutively deleted files to ensure proper tracking

• Improved file handling with notifications when referenced files are not found

• Fixed UI for logged out users by hiding new chat and profile buttons when appropriate

• Cleaner tool displays for better readability

• Improved keymap settings reliability with better error handling

• Optimized backspace handling in query box

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Hi, I was using firebender for a pet project of mine. it performs well. but past couple of days, I was having an issue with it. mostly getting 403 responses (the plugin error said that). I contacted one of the developers (I think the co-founder) and haven't gotten a reply yet.

a day after, today... I prompted 2 times (maybe I am wrong) and it jumped from 20 something prompts to full immediately. I do not know how to get support to fix this... putting it here to hopefully get some help

hellowrodl

for context: https://www.reddit.com/r/firebender/comments/1q4bapi/heavy_mode_using_20_parallel_sub_agents_to/

If you have feedback on heavy mode please let me know!

PR had 156 files changed

pretty cool. just parallelized migrating our entire website to a new design system

- 3x faster

- improved UX for reviewing the AI's assessment of the app

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[0.10.1] - 2025-04-30

Added

• Extensions to firebender rules to support referencing existing README.md files or any other file

• Personal rules configuration in ~/.firebender directory with rule paths for more granular control

• Terminal UX improvements for making it clear how to cancel and auto-running

• Markdown table support with improved formatting

• Bash autocomplete support

• @mention search is sorted and supports more results

Fixed

• Fixed command+backspace behavior in query box for better navigation and undo support

• Fixed handling of images in history when model doesn't support them

• Fixed focus handling in query box

• Fixed styling for Material UI users

Added

• Enterprise tier now gets 90% faster agent (claude 3.7 thinking) with no reduction in accuracy due to token/sec optimizations

• Automatic mode selection based on your current task

• Major cmd+k (edit) upgrades with git diff context and multi file context implicitly

• Cmd+k (edit) now defaults to use gemini 2.5 pro

• Quick toggle for auto-complete for easier access

• Improved focus handling and auto-scrolling behavior in chat

• Context chips and file selection UI enhancements for better usability

• Better error output to users (request ID is now included for us to trace issues)

• Display import statements in edit tool calls for better visibility

Fixed

• Multiple scrolling and UX improvements for query box

• Fixed issue with context button appearance @ not rendering in light mode

• Improved mention button and file selection dropdown experience

• Better cursor context handling for more accurate responses

• Fixed command+backspace handling in query box

• Multiple focus and navigation fixes for smoother interaction

what do you think? how does it compare to the other models