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Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

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Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

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Post by dakshgupta »

nico wrote: post #4

Cool, will check it out Does it integrate with Visual Studio, does it provide code suggestions? Been doing a lot of back and forth iteration with ChatGPT to build a python project from scratch It’s been a really good experience although frustratingly slow at times (from going back and forth between the browser and code and having to wait for gpt’s answers) Can more documentation be automatically added? For example, i…

We have a VS code extension in the store (also called "greptile"), feel free to check it out!

Docs is a good idea but we haven't found a reliable enough scraper to add docs from a website. We were thinking it would be cool if you could drop in like "docs.stripe.com" and it automatically adds stripe docs to the context.

Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

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Post by alalani1 »

I like clever project names :)

This looks great - I just tried to generate sample code in the react repo and was pleasantly surprised. Do you have a sense of whether this works well to generate code in general, i.e. generate an API route to return X data that works similar to the other API routes.

Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

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Post by soohoonchoi »

sourabh03agr wrote: post #13

Congrats on the launch! Do you need Github permissions to answer questions on open-source repos as well?

There are about a hundred open source repos you can talk to for free over at https://app.greptile.com/repo, we are looking to add more repositories as well. The permissions we get on login are from the Github App flow, you will still have to grant Greptile access specific organization/repositories for it to work with your own private repos.

Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

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Post by Conscat »

I've tried it on my own C++ codebase. It's fun, and I'm impressed that it could tell me which C++ standard is used (a question which is often difficult to find an answer to on random codebases), but it's really bad at analyzing templates. The answers it gives me are always incomplete and usually at least partly or mostly incorrect. I'm surprised by this in some cases, because my questions are answered by comments in the source code.

https://app.greptile.com/share/4953cbff-13ec-4427-b0af-02889...

Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

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Post by soohoonchoi »

alalani1 wrote: post #14

I like clever project names :) This looks great - I just tried to generate sample code in the react repo and was pleasantly surprised. Do you have a sense of whether this works well to generate code in general, i.e. generate an API route to return X data that works similar to the other API routes.

We love the name as well.

We haven't built it for code gen in particular, but a lot of our users seem to be using it for that. We want to really nail down people getting to understand what is going on in the codebase itself.

Re: Launch HN: Greptile (YC W24) - RAG on codebases that actually works

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Post by dakshgupta »

alalani1 wrote: post #14

I like clever project names :) This looks great - I just tried to generate sample code in the react repo and was pleasantly surprised. Do you have a sense of whether this works well to generate code in general, i.e. generate an API route to return X data that works similar to the other API routes.

Thanks! This should work. The closest thing I tried was with quary.dev, where I had it generate a postgres connector and it referred to existing db connectors to generate the changes.
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