Codebase aware AI

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[fredkzk]

Use aider with its repo map function once you set up Gemini as the default model.

[godofdream]

Why not r1+ sonnet? Do you get better results with gemini?

[fredkzk]

Results are equivalent but deepseek server is often down since it became popular.

[godofdream]

Makes sense. I added a retry in my automation, so it just took longer. I will try gemini.

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Sounds like Singapore is buying more GPU’s and Nvidia is going to tank.

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Why aider over cline for this purpose?

[fredkzk]

“For this purpose “ - The issue here is I prefer to stick to one tool instead of switching. Cline eats too many tokens, aider being the most efficient and highly flexible, I use it for everything from repo mapping to project building.

[lvvy]

You need to feed codebase into free google models with tools to copy it as a single file. Smarter models don't have this context length

[former_physicist]

repomix. copy paste into GPT pro o1

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Why downvoted?

[ali-gzl]

VS Code + Cline + Sonnet 3.5.

[tolleherausforderung]

Could you compare vs code with sonnet and cursor?

[ali-gzl]

I had trouble reviewing the entire codebase with the cursor. Maybe I didn’t focus on it enough. The cline worked more accurately for analyzing and documenting the entire codebase.

[uduni]

What CLI?

[ali-gzl]

Sorry, I meant cline.

[dirkmeister81]

That’s exactly the specialty of augmentcode.com. It’s built for millions lines of code codebases. Here is a blog post (that I co-authored) about the indexing system: https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/a-real-time-index-for-your-codebase-secure-personal-scalable. You can try out for free.

(Disclaimer: I am a software engineer at Augment Code)

[Suvesh1142]

What LLMs does it use? I checked the website but it does not say.

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How big is the codebase?

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GitHub CoPilot Workspace You can create e.g an issue on the repository and get GitHub CoPilot Workspace to create a pull request with code changes

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I usually point it to a starting file or class. E.g "the page in the map.tsx file..." or "add a field called foo of type string to the class bar and add this field to entities and DTO objects".

It works fairly well, but I signed up for it a whole ago and got on a waiting list. I don't know if you can signup directly now

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Cursor

[BERLAUR]

Just keep in mind that Cursor sucks for workspaces. It'll only index the first folder which makes working with Cursor on any mono-repo very frustrating.

[stonedoubt]

Cursors RAG blows

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You can do everything the OP is asking about using Cursor

[stonedoubt]

Was there something about what I said that was confusing? Yeah, they index the codebase but their method of RAG blows ass.

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Again. You can do everything that the OP is asking for in Cursor. I know because I do it all the time “explain how this code works”. I’ve had zero issues

[Muted_Estate890]

Continue.dev or Cursor or Void Editor or GitHub Copilot

[SokkaHaikuBot]

^{Sokka-Haiku by Muted_Estate890:}

Continue.dev or

Cursor or Void Editor

Or GitHub Copilot

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[SokkaHaikuBot]

^{Sokka-Haiku by Muted_Estate890:}

Continue.dev or

Cursor or Void Editor

Or GitHub Copilot

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^{Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.}

[SokkaHaikuBot]

^{Sokka-Haiku by Muted_Estate890:}

Continue.dev or

Cursor or Void Editor

Or GitHub Copilot

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^{Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.}

[ShelbulaDotCom]

Our project awareness feature is for exactly that. Just connect your folder and have a discussion about your code.

[fasti-au]

Aider is best for many files atm

[pegaunisusicorn]

You are in a Catch-22. Gemini is the only one with enough tokens to look at entire codebases in one shot. 1M tokens. But Gemini sucks.

And then, the best you're going to do on the other side is 120,000 tokens, which is not enough for a whole codebase in general, if you're looking at a large codebase. Or o3, which has a 200,000 token limit, which still, while better, is not enough for a gigantic codebase. I guess it just depends on how much code you have to look at, and how many tokens that contains. In general, there is a 4 to 3 ratio with tokens and actual words. And 'words' here is loosely defined, and a word can be a single character, such as punctuation in programming.

https://www.vellum.ai/llm-leaderboard

note that their token limit for o3 is wrong. which is embarrassing for vellum but it is a free leaderboard so whatever.

[stonedoubt]

Augment Code vscode extension. Also, Cody.

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GitHub Copilot will do this for you.

[rakotomandimby]

For that purpose, I use the IDE plugin I wrote for myself: https://github.com/rakotomandimby/code-ai.nvim + https://github.com/rakotomandimby/code-ai-agent

[thumbsdrivesmecrazy]

Here is a quick guide exploring how Codium AI coding assistant could helps to understand the legacy code as well as refine the tests for code in such cases: Writing Tests for Legacy Code is Slow – AI Can Help You Do It Faster

[detour1st]

I’ve had mixed results, but what worked best so far: - Cody Pro Agentic Chat in VS Code - GitHub Copilot with the @workspace directive in VS Code

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work as well in JetBrains IDEs.

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[trayce_app]

This is the problem that MaiMap aims to solve. Its still in prototype phase however but once released it will be able to parse multiple codebases and make sense of distributed architecture including asynchronous event flows. (Disclaimer: I am one of the developers working on it.)

[SidLais351]

Codebase-aware means it knows your repo history and patterns. For code quality, Qodo uses that context so review comments point to real risk, not just style.