Re:Show HN: Transform Your Codebase into a Single Markdown D...
by Keyframe on Friday February 14, 2025 @11:16AM
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Nothing like that at all. For example I have a few codebases kind of large (for certain quantity of large) where I know the code since either I wrote it or participated heavily in. Talking snippets at a time loses a ton of context which would yield better offered solutions if you had, well.. the whole context.
Re:Show HN: Transform Your Codebase into a Single Markdown D...
by ako on Saturday February 15, 2025 @02:37AM
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An llm itself is a large codebase that no human has laid eyes on, instead you validate it through testing.
Regarding testing, I’ve had an interaction with windsurf where I told it there was a bug in the application it generated. It replied “I’ve added some log statements, can you run it and tell me what you see, then I’ll know what to fix”… The llm was instructing me…
I prefer the idea of the other comment reply where you use AI as a tool to explore a codebase and assist you, not something you instruct to do the work. It can accelerate you building that experience and intuition at a level we've never been able to do before.