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That's fair! If there were a "minimal" mode where you could still access callers, data flows, and dependencies with no AI text, would it be helpful for your reviews?

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Not parent, but in my opinion the answer here is yes. I agree that there is a real need here and a potentially solid value proposition (which is not the case with a lot of vscode-fork+LLM-based starups) but the whole point should be to combat the verbosity and featurelessness of LLM-generated code and text. Using an LLM on the backend to discover meaningful connections in the codebase may sometimes be the right call but the output of that analysis should be some simple visual indication of control flow or dependency like you mention. At a first look the output in the editor looks more like an expansion rather than a distillation.

Unrelated, but I don't know why I expected the website and editor theme to be hay-yellow and or hay-yellow and black instead of the classic purple on black :)

Thanks for the opinion! That makes a lot of sense and I like the concept of being an extension of a user's own analysis vs hosing them with information.

Yeah originally I thought of using yellow/brown or yellow/black but for some reason I didn't like the color. Plenty of time to go back though!

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