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Still trying to figure this out for https://rockyai.me/ (an extension that lets you chat with a webpage). So far most of the growth has come from sharing it with friends!
+1 looking for an answer here as well. My guess is that the context limit for all the source code for some large projects will almost always exceed the LLM allowed token limits, so the AI editors generally need to implement some RAG like solution for these. Sourcegraph's cody[0] claims to be able to answer questions across your entire codebase. I haven't tested it extensively but I'm guessing it's competitive with some other AI editors that would offer this.

If I just have a github file open in browser for reference, then I'll sometimes use Rocky AI[1] to explain the code to me - helps avoid the constant copy past into chat gpt from your tab.

[0] https://sourcegraph.com/cody [1] https://rockyai.me/

Re:Ask HN: Does GenZ still read blogs? on Sunday October 20, 2024 @03:50PM (#41898009)
I'll read a few good ones from authors that I follow because I know their content is great and I'm excited about those topics. But I'll also ready a lot of blogs casually, but for those I'll either skim through them myself or use something like https://rockyai.me/ to give me a tldr
Playing sports with other people really helped me develop solid relationships! Can be something as easy as pickleball or something more competitive like soccer
Re:Ask HN: Best AI Code Assistant? on Sunday October 13, 2024 @12:40PM (#41829427)
I'll use cursor for direct coding assistance when working with an existing codebase. If I'm writing something new from scratch (especially frontend), I'll use Claude artifacts / ChatGpt canvas. If I'm browsing docs online for something, I'll use https://rockyai.me/ to quickly find the content I need.
Re:Ask HN: How did you improve your ability to do deep work? on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @01:45AM (#41784864)
Avoid context switching as much as you can. I don't use my phone at all during phone hours (outside of lunch maybe) and try to do work in 90 min chunks where I try to focus on just one thing (so if I'm writing code I'll ignore all slack pings unless it's urgent).

I have also made a bunch of small optimizations like using productivity tools like Cursor so I can avoid copy pasting code into chat gpt. My recent favorite AI tool is https://rockyai.me/ that a previous co-worker built. It's a chrome extension that lets you chat with any webpage using LLMs

I feel like I'm in the same boat where I spend too much time reading news articles, twitter threads, reddit feeds, etc. A friend recently shared this chrome extension with me that helps me summarize the content on these pages using LLMs so now I use this all the time https://rockyai.me/. Instead of spending 2 mins reading an article I'll just read a summary in 10s and then decide if I want to dive in deeper.
It's not that great at answering questions specific to my company's code base - like where do I find another API method that does Y. However, we have a lot of guides internally which are usually scattered around in github readmes and usually those are what I fallback to when trying to find an answer. These github readmes and be quite long though and it can feel like a lot of manual work to scan through them, that's where I'll usually use this extension Rocky AI to quickly ask a question given the context of a webpage (helps avoid reading through the entire thing manually). After quickly browsing 2-3 and I'll have what I need.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rocky-ai/fdjoklehji...