Stuck in debug loop, unable to cancel, and export to local not working

Phoenix LLM
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I was trying out Phoenix.new and had a few issues. I’m using Orion browser (Webkit).

  1. The agent was stuck debugging an issue and the “Cancel the Command” button didn’t do anything. The agent kept on debugging and fixing issues, but the problem is the debugging process is extremely expensive and it blew through like $8 in credits before it said it was forcing the agent to take a break. I’m not sure if the button forces that, but that didn’t occur for several minutes after pushing the button.
  2. Also while debugging, it hit the 100 message limit and stopped responding. I couldn’t “squash the chat history”, I’m assuming because the agent was still working in the background. Not sure if it spent more credits doing work in the background while the UI was not responding. I had to hard refresh a few times for it to recognize the “squash the chat history” command.
  3. Using the “Clone to local computer” is broken. The link provided has a variable $RANDOM that isn’t populated in link. When copying the link, it’s blank when pasted in the terminal and I get the error remote: Invalid request format. Use /git/{token}/{nonce}/{repo}. It looks like $RANDOM is supposed to be a nonce, but it’s not working.
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Found a thread about the “Clone to local computer” functionality. I was using Fish shell, and after switching to bash/zsh, it worked. May want to add the ability to switch shells and change the command, or to paste into a bash session.

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Wasn’t quite able to get a working prototype with $20 in credit. It’s really cool and impressive that it uses the browsers to test the functionality like end-to-end testing instead of writing a unit tests, but it chews through credits at a rate I’m not sure is worth it. Might be worth while having it write tests instead of loading the whole browser into the context to do simple things like read if the title and button text is correct.

Overall, impressive project, but I personally don’t have the funds to keep traveling down this road with the tool. Wish I could have got my project in a state that was functional before running out of credits.