GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens

Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens by simonw on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:58PM (#42965353)

I answer those kinds of questions by piping my entire codebase into a large context model (like Claude or o3-mini or Gemini) and prompting it directly.

Here's a recent example:

    files-to-prompt datasette tests -e py -c | \
      llm -m gemini-2.0-flash-exp -u \
      'which of these files contain tests that indirectly exercise the label_column_for_table() function'

https://gist.github.com/simonw/bee455c41d463abc6282a5c9c132c...

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Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens by dplgk on Thursday February 06, 2025 @10:13PM (#42968880)

Your code is pretty small if it fits within the context if any major LLM. But very nice if it does!

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Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens by singularity2001 on Friday February 07, 2025 @04:11AM (#42970782)

doesn't it get very expensive quickly if you don't use prompt cashing

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Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens by simonw on Friday February 07, 2025 @07:43PM (#42979210)

I've had the occasional large prompt that cost ~30c - I often use GPT-4o mini if I'm going to ask follow-up questions because then I get prompt caching without having to configure it.

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Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens by mohsen1 on Friday February 07, 2025 @04:50AM (#42970993)

https://github.com/bodo-run/yek

This is more sophisticated for serializing your repo. Please check it out and let me know what do you think?

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Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens by blah2244 on Saturday February 08, 2025 @11:57AM (#42984261)

Yek is fantastic -- I've converted my whole team to using it for prompting. As input context windows keep increasing, I think it'll just keep becoming more and more valuable -- I can put most of my team's code in Gemini 2.0 now.

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