Show HN: CodeZen – A simple CLI tool to ask LLM questions about your codebase

Re:Show HN: CodeZen – A simple CLI tool to ask LLM questions... by melx on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @08:37AM (#36226017)

> ...sends it to GPT with the entire codebase as context.

I never (so far) used LLM for "code assistance". However I would not want to use a route of sending everything in to OpenAI (or similar).

Maybe offer some sort of `.*ignore` that includes files to be excluded in the (API) request.

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Re:Show HN: CodeZen – A simple CLI tool to ask LLM questions... by mmaorc on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @09:03AM (#36226272)

Thanks for the feedback I already use the .gitignore file to decide which files I should ignore. I should also add an option to add more files to the ignore list as well.

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Re:Show HN: CodeZen – A simple CLI tool to ask LLM questions... by melx on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @09:25AM (#36226501)

Yes but while adding files to .gitignore will not send these to AI using your tool, it will break a project that uses your tool. Hence the idea of a separate ignore file to git, but with similar behaviour to gitignore.

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Re:Show HN: CodeZen – A simple CLI tool to ask LLM questions... by mmaorc on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @09:32AM (#36226575)

Yes, I completely agree. This is what I meant, but I wasn't clear enough. I'm working on adding `.czignore` functionality right now.

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Re:Show HN: CodeZen – A simple CLI tool to ask LLM questions... by mmaorc on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @09:42AM (#36226694)

Fixed. You can use version 0.3.0 that supports .czignore with the same format as .gitignore

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