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Re: Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts

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Post by ozfive »

UncleEntity wrote: post #47
xwdv wrote: post #31

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That’s not very impressive. With very little precision I can throw a few keywords into google and get a full answer and perhaps some code snippets from stack overflow to solve whatever problem I have in the moment. Except you can’t just blindly copy code snippets, you have to read the author’s explanation and perhaps adapt things to your own code sometimes, or reject their solution entirely. GPT-4 can’t do this becau…

> That’s not very impressive. That’s kind of impressive. I usually have zero luck with stack overflow except for super trivial things. Some of the stuff I’ve done has no documentation and I had to find an example (like one other person in the entire history of mankind though this was a good idea) on some random repo on GitHub. Or I’m implementing code from a paper written 30 or 40 years ago and there’s no example cod…

> Admittedly I just do this to amuse myself and think that having a LLM digest a paper and spit out code is the bee’s knees.

This is what I have been doing also. Verification/Implementation of Software Engineering papers will be juicy especially with image ingestion.

Re: Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts

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Post by ajmurmann »

layer8 wrote: post #29
waynenilsen wrote: post #18

Fully automated junior swe but on hyper speed. Natural next step

How will we grow new senior SWEs in the future?

Given how quickly everything around generative AI has been evolving, would your money be on a new junior SWE becoming a senior SWE first or LLM tooling gaining senior SWE capabilities first?

Re: Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts

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Post by ozfive »

Bjartr wrote: post #16
mpoon wrote: post #7

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I'm waiting on my GPT-4 API access so I can use gpt-4-32k which maybe can soak up 10k LOC? Clearly this will break eventually, but I am playing around with some ideas to extend how much context I can give it. One is to do something like base64 encode file contents. I've seen some early success that GPT-4 knows how to decode it, so that'll allow me to stuff more characters into it. I'm also hoping that with the use of…

> GPT-4 knows how to decode it I wonder if you could teach it to understand a binary encoding using the raw bytestream, feed it compressed text, and just tell it to decompress it first.

Here is what GPT-4 says about it. "As an AI language model, I can understand and work with various text encoding schemes and compression algorithms. However, to work with a raw bytestream, you would need to provide specific details about the encoding and compression used.

To teach me to understand a particular binary encoding and compressed text format, you should provide the following information:

The binary encoding used (e.g., ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16, etc.). The compression algorithm employed (e.g., gzip, Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW), Huffman coding, etc.). Once you provide these details, I can help you process the raw bytestream and decompress the text. However, keep in mind that my primary focus is on natural language understanding and generation, and I might not be as efficient at handling compressed data as a dedicated compression/decompression tool."

Re: Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts

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Post by visarga »

yangff wrote: post #68
zarzavat wrote: post #58

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Indeed, but it’s a much more legally dubious proposition when it comes to entire repos. A repo has more potentially creative structure for copyright to attach to. For example the class graph, or the filesystem layout are creative decisions that could potentially be protected. Current LLMs are nowhere near powerful enough to reimplement an entire repo without violating copyright. For an individual function I can total…

Sounds like clean room, and if you can do that for GPL code, you can also do that for proprietary code, which is fair in a sense. Or maybe the question is whether you can re-label the code so written as GPL or MIT ......Or, you should let GPT pick a license that it likes.

Reimplementing would also help with training data, it's a way of extracting the idea without copying the original form. Works even better on images with variations, you generate the style from image A with content composition from image B, thus extracting the style without the exact expression.

Re: Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts

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Post by visarga »

ftufek wrote: post #10

This is awesome, can't wait to get api access to the 32k token model. Rather than this approach of just converting the whole repo to a text file, what I'm thinking is, you can let the model decide the most relevant files. The initial prompt would be, "person wants to do x, here are the file list of this repo: ...., give me a list of files that you'd want to edit, create or delete" -> take the list, try to fit the con…

Working with GPT becomes like coding in plain English.

Re: Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts

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Post by zenlikethat »

osigurdson wrote: post #60
tobiasSoftware wrote: post #14

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I don't see programming going away for this reason. Think about it, if you have to carefully describe what you want to do to an AI - you are just writing a program. Only a program is deterministic and will do what you tell it to, whereas an AI may or may not. The future that I see, coding and AI are divided into two camps. The one is what we would call "script kiddies" today - people who don't understand how to write…

I'm already at the point where I get frustrated when GPT writes some incorrect code - despite it saving me enormous amounts of time. The appetite for productivity seems to be insatiable. I want to be able to create a million lines of code per month by myself.

So relatable! I find myself getting irritated when it gets stuck on something and I have to intervene, yet it helps absolutely shred LOCs in some other cases.

Re: Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts

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Post by zenlikethat »

xwdv wrote: post #31
antibasilisk wrote: post #20

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Between GPT-3 and GPT-4 the precision required for prompts was decreased significantly. In theory it should reach the point where a project manager type person would be able to describe what is needed and it would simply do it, the main thing missing from attaining that is that GPT-4 basically never responds to questions with requests for clarification, otherwise, a whole team of developers could be reduced to just o…

That’s not very impressive. With very little precision I can throw a few keywords into google and get a full answer and perhaps some code snippets from stack overflow to solve whatever problem I have in the moment. Except you can’t just blindly copy code snippets, you have to read the author’s explanation and perhaps adapt things to your own code sometimes, or reject their solution entirely. GPT-4 can’t do this becau…

The thing that makes ChatGPT (especially 4) great though is that everything is hyper customized to you and, given a little prompt context (which is pretty trivial to automate and will be built right in to our tools one way or another), it can produce working code that fits your exact needs extremely rapidly.

e.g., if I type into google, "Build me a React component todo list that loads its data using fetch() to /api/v1/todos and is styled with Tailwind", I'm going to get a bunch of stuff that I can maybe use, if I invest 15 minutes wading through cancer-inducing blogs. Whereas at least for trivial problems, ChatGPT just tesseracts something that's extremely close and you copy-paste it in, change a few things, boom, component done. Something doesn't work? Often a follow up message fixes it.

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Post by Meathelix »

ChatGTP wrote: post #70
layer8 wrote: post #37

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> software hobbled together with shitty AI code that no one understands That’s my fear as well. Software may just get shittier overall (aka “good enough”), and in higher volumes, due to it taking less time to crank out using AI.

I think it's going to be the end of libraries, why would people bother with libraries when every service can be churned out in 5 seconds with ChatGPT ? We're going to witness he greatest copy pasta in history and find out how that goes.

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Re: Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts

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Post by zenlikethat »

ChatGTP wrote: post #70
layer8 wrote: post #37

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> software hobbled together with shitty AI code that no one understands That’s my fear as well. Software may just get shittier overall (aka “good enough”), and in higher volumes, due to it taking less time to crank out using AI.

I think it's going to be the end of libraries, why would people bother with libraries when every service can be churned out in 5 seconds with ChatGPT ? We're going to witness he greatest copy pasta in history and find out how that goes.

I think it will be a bit of both, why reach for that module when you can just get AI to write the 10% you need so quickly? (Which is actually a net gain I think in many cases, just look at leftpad drama) But the productivity boost from AI will also lead to more libraries available that do useful things in the areas it's not so sharp. They will also start to lean in to AI assisted coding styles too of course.

And once we get good tooling to inject in recent data, source code, etc so it can use those as well... gonna be great

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