Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4

Re:Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 by blowski on Thursday May 25, 2023 @02:57PM (#36074599)

I’ve found it’s very useful for understanding snippets of code, like a 200-line function. But systems are more than “lots of 200-line functions” - there’s a lot of context hidden in flags, conditional blocks, data, Git histories.

Maybe one day, we’ll be able to run it over all the Git histories, Jira tickets, Confluence documentation, Slack conversations, emails, meeting transcripts, presentations, etc. Until then, the humans will need to stitch it all together as best they can.

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Re:Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 by darkerside on Thursday May 25, 2023 @09:59PM (#36078859)

I can't think of a reason you couldn't specifically train an AI on your own large code base. After all, current LLMs are trained on effectively the entire internet.

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Re:Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 by zappchance on Friday May 26, 2023 @12:47AM (#36080069)

Unless your documentation is 20~100x the size of your codebase and written in a conversational tone, the LLM won't be able to be asked any questions about it using English.

If your only aim is to use it like Copilot, sure, it's useful.

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Re:Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 by sandos on Friday May 26, 2023 @03:33AM (#36081176)

So the first step is to let the LLM write the documentation.... :)

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Re:Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 by still_grokking on Saturday May 27, 2023 @01:17AM (#36092270)

Sure. Because it understands the code so well.

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Re:Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 by oceanplexian on Friday May 26, 2023 @04:04AM (#36081371)

You might be able fine tune a model on pull requests if they have really high quality descriptions, high quality commit messages, and the code is well documented and organized.

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Re:Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 by still_grokking on Saturday May 27, 2023 @01:17AM (#36092269)

I'm really not sure this is irony or a serious comment.

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Re:Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 by blowski on Friday May 26, 2023 @03:17AM (#36081058)

I haven't yet seen anything that can scan an entire codebase and build, say, a data lineage to understand how a value in the UI was calculated. I'm sure it's coming, though.

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Re:Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 by still_grokking on Saturday May 27, 2023 @01:19AM (#36092277)

It's coming, I'm sure.

Just right after we have invented AGI.

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