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0 pointsericmcer1y ago0 comments

I have tried a few AI coding tools and always found them impressive but I don't really need something to autocomplete obvious code cases.

Is there an AI tool that can ingest a codebase and locate code based on abstract questions? Like: "I need to invalidate customers who haven't logged in for a month" and it can locate things like relevant DB tables, controllers, services, etc.

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fullstackchris1y ago

Cursor (Claude behind the scenes) can do that, however as always, your mileage may vary.

I tried building a whole codebase inspector, essentially what you are referring to with Gemini's 2 million token context window but had troubles with their API when the payload got large. Just 500 error with no additional info so...

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spacebanana71y ago

It's ugly, but I've had some success with uploading a few files from a project and a sketch of the schema. Then asking for new functionality.

ChatGPT and Claude seem to be pretty good at maintaining an implicit understanding of the codebase based on a subset of files.

james_marks1y ago

I haven’t seen quite that, but it’s an interesting question; like a semantic search.

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