Does anyone know of tools that go the other direction? i.e. taking a technical writeup (scientific paper, architecture docs, or similar) and emitting a candidate codebase.
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#12As a note, CodeWeaver might be a confusing name, as CodeWeavers (the Wine development company) exists since 1996... ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWeavers )
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#13I really want a tool like this that can extract a function and its dependency graph (to a certain depth maybe, and/or exclude node_modules).
I wrote this library [1] and hope to add the fine-grained "reference resolution" utility to it at some point, which could make implementing such a tool a lot simpler.
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#14Unfortunate naming, given that CodeWeavers is already a company making a Windows "emulator" for Linux and macOS. [1]
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#15Which like, kinda neat that it exists, but who's using tooling that bad that they're manually copying and pasting that much code into, what, a web browser text entry box? Use better tools people!
I have always used o1 pro and deep research, but these are only available through the web UI.
there is no doubt that cursor and others have a better UI, but the demand for this type of tool exists because OpenAI does not release an API
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#16Does anyone know of tools that go the other direction? i.e. taking a technical writeup (scientific paper, architecture docs, or similar) and emitting a candidate codebase.
Maybe I don't understand but isn't this what you use LLMs for?
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#17Does anyone know of tools that go the other direction? i.e. taking a technical writeup (scientific paper, architecture docs, or similar) and emitting a candidate codebase.
I don’t know of a tool but I’ve had some success doing this with a one shot short prompt. I say something like, “Here’s a readme. Develop this in Go.” Followed by the readme.
I’ve been getting complete working code with this strategy but I’m creating projects that are relatively simple.
I also notice that I have to give a little deeper context about “how” it should work, which I normally wouldn’t do.
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#18Which like, kinda neat that it exists, but who's using tooling that bad that they're manually copying and pasting that much code into, what, a web browser text entry box? Use better tools people!
This seems useful for building new tools. It's not strictly an end-user tool.
Exactly, the LLM-RAG boffins are all over stuff like this.
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#19Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a tool where you interact with AI interactively through the codebase via IDE / vim / emacs tree? Say, you open your codebase and start with prompts and AI+tool navigates to a function or a place where it needs to and modifies stuff while chatting to you about it? Or you jump to somewhere, highlight where you are to scope down the focus of it (while it still retains all of the code in history/memory). Sort of like pair programming. It sounds so obvious that I'm almost sure I've missed that already existing somewhere. I think I tried google's thing (forgot the name) but it sucked / wasn't that.
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#20How does this compare to / differ from https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix ?
My question exactly. Repomix seems to be tested util for something like that.