Comment by andai
6 hours ago
(I'm not the guy but) That's funny, I had the same idea the other day. Keeping summaries of files. Haven't tested that yet.
Another thing I've been thinking is how, most parts of a file are not relevant to the whole system.
Like there are parts where they intersect, and those seem to be the most important ones for capturing the big picture. You wanna be able to see the entire "skeleton".
So I thought the summary maybe shouldn't be English but it should be a subset of the code — the subset that's relevant to the rest of the program.
`grep import` gets you 90% of the way there.
If you include the following:
https://github.com/gitsense/chat/blob/main/base-state/analyz...
In your chat with AI, include the above file and let it know what your requirements are and I can create the analyzer and include it.
You can also think of my tool as data prepping tool. So if you have a clear prompt the AI can review the file during analysis and remove all unnecessary code so the extracted metadata will the stripped text which you can use search against.
> If a developer wanted to change X, would these keywords help them find this file?
I think the best way to generate these is with a sub-agent. Tell it to try and solve a problem that involves editing this file, and see what it starts grepping for.
This ties in with this idea that the tools and designs should be what comes naturally to the LLM, i.e. what it's already been trained on. And the most straightforward way to do that is to let it reach for it.
Like when you reach in the darkness for an object. Where your hand lands is exactly where it should be.
My solution has a natural self improvement loop. Once you have finished a task, you just ask the agent "If you had more information, how would you have finished the task sooner and/or better?" This was how I came about the rust blast radius brain.
I need to modify OpenAI's Codex agent to support slash commands that can help humans better guide agents, and I needed a solution with the least impact. They don't accept contributions so I need to plan for syncing with the upstream.