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Cool project! I'm working in the same space (a ChatGPT plugin that can edit files within a shared VS Code workspace) and have built something similar to your "repo map" concept, except slightly lower-level: what you might call a "file map" generated by selectively collapsing AST nodes to fit within the available token budget. If ctags isn't cutting it for you, have a look at tree-sitter [1]. It can generate ASTs for most languages and has a nice API.

[1] https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/

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Glad to hear there are others working on similar things. I've been wishing there was a good forum for like minded folks to share ideas about AI coding, beyond the random drive-by commenting that happens here on HN.

I have been looking at tree-sitter quite a bit actually. I love that it has broad language support, which is a key design goal for my tool.

My only hesitation is that it doesn't appear to correctly identify multi-line function signatures & calls. If you look below at create, io.tool_error and __init__ you can see that the (row,col)-(row,col) indicies only reference the first line.

GPT would really benefit from seeing the entire function signature and call sites.

  $ tree-sitter tags aider/coders/base_coder.py
  ...
  create      | function def (39, 8) - (39, 14) `def create(`
  check_model_availability  | call     ref (54, 19) - (54, 43) `if not check_model_availability(main_model):`
  tool_error  | call     ref (56, 23) - (56, 33) `io.tool_error(`
  EditBlockCoder  | call     ref (66, 19) - (66, 33) `return EditBlockCoder(main_model, io, **kwargs)`
  ...
  __init__    | function def (74, 8) - (74, 16) `def __init__(`
  set         | call     ref (89, 26) - (89, 29) `self.abs_fnames = set()`
  ...

I too would be interested in a good forum for like minded folks to share ideas about AI coding!

Same. I don't know if it'd be Lemmy or something else just hosted somewhere, and there might just be 5 of us - if people are interested I can make something today. Strong preferences on platforms? If not I'll make something.

Count me in as well.

And me!

Interested. I currently use GPT to write the majority of my commit messages and catch bugs at commit time.

I don't want to spam everyone so will just reply here in the chain - I setup https://aicoding.club/, a lemmy instance for this. Emails aren't working just now as I've only just setup the domain and need to sort spf/etc, but I'll keep an eye on things to approve people.

Is there a tool you use for that?

Likewise interested and exploring the same area.

I'm also interested

I’d be very interested in joining this group

Add me too please. Good initiative.

I setup https://aicoding.club/ a lemmy instance for this.

It is not loading for me :(

Aha, that would be because I got the url wrong that I just set up. https://aicoding.club/ (and fixed in the message before).

If you get a fasthosts landing page, it's DNS propogation issues. Should be hooked up to 68.183.253.254 (correct on google and cloudflare dns).

Thank you

Hi, I like discussing these topics too. I just created this for this purpose if you want to join me here https://discord.gg/r3vK4xY4

There's also an existing larger "gpt hackers" Discord you might be interested in checking out that I'm not involved with: https://discord.gg/pMjHMvkK

Thank you

Hi, I like discussing these topics too. I just created this for this purpose if you want to join me here https://discord.gg/r3vK4xY4

There's also an existing larger "gpt hackers" Discord you might be interested in checking out that I'm not involved with: https://discord.gg/pMjHMvkK

I'd also like to join. Care to open up the invitation link again?

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