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WillMcCall

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    Comment #46112936

    Glad you liked it!

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    Comment #41399177

    Makes total sense, and sorry to hear about the incident. At the moment, closed source models are the only viable way to generate high quality diagrams. Once that changes, we'd pref…

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    Comment #41399000

    Thanks for the feedback! A fully local stack would give control back to developers, which we would love to do once open source model performance improves. Hoping we can change your…

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    Comment #41398929

    The call graph doesn't highlight dead code specifically, but unused blocks are manually identifiable through isolated/broken chains. Is this something you'd like to see?

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    Comment #41398754

    Glad you see the potential! We do have an existing function "call graph" view that uses traditional static analysis methods with LSP calls. Augmenting this view with LLMs seems ver…

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    Comment #41398651

    That makes sense, we'll make this change!

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    Comment #41398620

    Curious to learn more about the project, what were you working on? We're not hiring at the moment, but let's stay in touch!

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    Comment #41398580

    Definitely an interesting thought, although we wouldn't be able to support any UI/UX. We could host a separate utility and expose endpoints for UML or markdown though.

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    Comment #41396639

    This sounds like an ambitious project with a number of interesting technical challenges. It may be some time before the tooling will exist to support your use case, but then again,…

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    Comment #41395974

    Thanks for the feedback and resources! In designing CodeViz we were inspired by the Maya hypershade, which closely resembles the diagram-based blender tool that you shared. https:/…

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    Comment #41394967

    Re: Edit The top level categorizations are indeed fixed, however the nodes themselves can be arbitrary. We've found this helps with grouping and organization while still allowing f…

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    Comment #41394884

    Yes of course, Let's set up some time to chat! Looks like a great tool!

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    Comment #41394531

    Sounds good, thanks for the feedback! Would open-sourcing CodeViz change your willingness to give it a try? Definitely agree that rigor is a tricky term here, do you think the open…

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    Comment #41394239

    Great points/questions. I suspect that information relevant to codebase architectures follows the 80/20 principle. For example, a router and index file in a React App will usually …

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    Comment #41394045

    The lines represent a connection or interaction between different parts of the codebase. Most often these are dependencies like you mentioned, but a "dependency" could be a parent-…