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Comment #48461944
Nice Blog!
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Comment #48445324
I mean we are trying to be faster than LSPs, LSPs are a little slow for enterprise grade codebases
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Comment #48439598
There is a skill.md for the agent to know about the cli, I can make update the same with more examples.
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Comment #48435845
Thanks a lot Alex! for this reply, it keeps us pumped.
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Comment #48435827
no setup just configures your git diff to use sem by defult, you will find the sem mcp directory on github repostiory, also there's skill.md file which will tell your agent on how …
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Comment #48435808
sorry if you consider that as hijack, it was just a user's request to use this as default plugin on their git. But I will add it to let the users know thanks for the feedback
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Comment #48432935
It doesn't override git diff at all, sem is its own standalone CLI. git diff continues to work exactly as before. You do sem setup only when you want to change your default git dif…
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Comment #48432931
sem doesn't override git diff, it's a completely separate command (sem diff). Your regular git diff should work exactly as it always has after installing sem. If you want to change…
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Comment #48432142
This is actually the exact scenario we just spent the last few weeks optimizing for. On a 71K-file TypeScript monorepo, sem was previously choking entirely (DNF), and now completes…
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Comment #48431763
Appreciate it!
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Comment #48431681
That's a really compelling use case actually
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Comment #48431634
Thanks! The data artifacts angle is really interesting. in some ways the problem is even harder there because data pipelines have less explicit structure than code, I guess.
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Comment #48431612
haha definitely!
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Comment #48430912
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Comment #48430857
git is actually great, and there are not much of the issues as the world says about it, and the best is to build complimentary layers that makes it even stronger is the best bet I …
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Comment #48430369
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Comment #48430352
I am sorry, should have put up a warning there, but You can do sem unsetup, if you go to the github, you will understand more about the way to reverse it.
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Comment #48430129
Lemme give you an example. when you're working in a 100K-file TypeScript monorepo and you change a utility function that parses API responses. git diff tells you that you changed n…
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Comment #48430031
Ha, the regex approach is honestly how a lot of people start with this problem and you can get surprisingly far with it until you hit the edge cases around aliased imports, re-expo…
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Comment #48429985
This is a really interesting direction, you're essentially talking about data flow or taint analysis, where you track how a value propagates through copies and transformations rath…
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Comment #48429850
Thanks for pointing it out. I agree with you here, my testing process was quite specific to sem's output but also would love any suggestion from you of how you would design the who…