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Has anyone figured out a good AI-based workflow for editing code? I don't want copilot, I don't want to copy everything into a chat box every time I want to ask a question. I want to give the LLM access to my local file system's copy of my repository, and say things like:

> Create a component called src/app/shared/FeedList.svelte which has a "create feed" button similar to the one on the groups list page, and a list of user feeds. Each list item should be in a card, with an "edit" link on the right that links to a form for editing the custom feed.

The agent would then update my file system in place, and I could review the changes via git, manually edit, or provide a follow-up prompt. When I'm happy with the results, I can commit the changes, rinse, and repeat.

That prompt is obviously very complex, particularly the inference of what a "button similar to the one on the groups list page" might be. But a dumber prompt would still be a 10x improvement over typing everything out by hand.

Dustin Dannenhauer 1y ago

I haven’t found anything great yet. Depending on how big your project is, context window limits are still a problem (I.e. you can’t just give the whole code base along with your prompt for every query).

Cursor is the best thing I’ve tried, it can be helpful for answering questions about big codebases, although it doesn’t always work for things like what you asked for. I assume it’s using a form of RAG and RAG can be nuanced (chunk size matters a lot and retrieval is far from perfect).

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