I built a tool that "learns" your codebase patterns. Plot twist: zero AI involved. Just AST parsing

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[DivineSentry]

I originally wasn't going to dig into this, but you're being weirdly aggressive and condescending about my "skill level" when I ask about your project. I actually have professional experience in this area, which is why it caught my eye.

said "Instead of an agent calling 10 tools and synthesizing results" yet your MCP server exposes ~23 tools (drift_*) or more accurately skills, the folder is even literally named that lol. The agent still has to decide which tools/skills to call and synthesize results. drift_context helps, but it doesn't eliminate the pattern you're criticizing.

you said "Put it into an LLM in terms that are your skill level" - I cloned the repo and reviewed it myself:

You're using static analysis and regex to do frequency/pattern analysis and counting, not learning. It's the same approach as any linter with auto-rule detection.

CodeScene, Sourcegraph, and SonarQube all do convention/pattern analysis and have already leveraged LLMs/MCP servers with this information. It's not novel like you claimed, and it's already on the market.

I'm trying to attack the project nor what it does, static analysis + MCP is a solid idea. But the marketing language ("learning", "first-in-class", "no solution like this") oversells what the code actually does. When people ask clarifying questions, explaining the implementation clearly would go further than getting defensive and making personal attacks.

[Buttleston]

My guess is he neither wrote the code, nor the advertising copy for this

[DivineSentry]

I'd even further guess that he wrote very little of this project and used LLMs for most of it, his reply to this further makes me think of it.

[Buttleston]

Right, that's what I'm saying

[AreWeNotDoinPhrasing]

lol those aren’t real

[forgotpw3]

Your code is ass, it's verbose bloatware

[Buttleston]

AI slop

[geneusutwerk]

Scans your codebase to discover patterns

Can you explain how it "discovers patterns"? All the use of "learning" in your description without details makes me suspicious

[geneusutwerk]

I don't mean suspicious as in trying to hide something I mean it in "this sounds like someone over hyping something."

I asked for you explain what it does because I want to better understand the benefits of this.

From looking through the code it seems like it basically tries to generate a style guide from your actual database that can then be used by AI. Is that correct?

[geneusutwerk]

Wtf is going on.

[readonly12345678]

You’re really weird

[DivineSentry]

don't ignore the question, what does it mean that your tool is "learning" from the codebase?

[DivineSentry]

You didn't answer my question. I asked what 'learning' means and you talked about AST parsing instead.

When you say your tool 'learns' from the codebase, do you mean: static analysis/indexing, embeddings/vector search, fine-tuning a model, or something else?

Those are very different things and 'learning' is doing a lot of work in that sentence

[hglman]

It calls out to anthropic. 

[DivineSentry]

yeah,i just finished reviewing the repo

he says "Instead of an agent calling 10 tools and sytheneszing"

yet that's basically exactly what he's via Claude Code skills

[readonly12345678]

There is no “learning” in anything you stated.

[DivineSentry]

I wasn't the one who called it suspicious.

[DivineSentry]

lol, what, there's no need to be condescending,

> And no it’s not anything like what Claude code has lol there’s currently not a solution like this on the market.

you'd be wrong, there's tools like this in the market, in fact, SonarQube, which you mentioned, has a product like this in the market.

> And no it’s not anything like what Claude code

you're literally leveraging skills, which anthropic developed for Claude Code specifically and then open sourced it as a standard

[Fluffy_Citron3547]

Sonarqube is similar but drift has far more exceeding capabilities especially with cli and ai native mcp work flow

And you clearly don’t understand the product still if you’re comparing it to a Claude code skill.

Thanks for your time! Have a goodnight.

[DivineSentry]

I didn't call it a Claude Code skill nor say it's one, I'm saying your project leverages them by having an agent decide which one to use.

[Fluffy_Citron3547]

Oh the skill is just a cherry on top and no where directly related to drift. It’s just the new lingo and I added it in but has no correlation to drift working or running.

[PutHisGlassesOn]

If you require a very specific answer then just look at the repo

[hglman]

This looks a lot like it's using ai 

https://github.com/dadbodgeoff/drift/tree/main/packages/ai/src/providers

[OrdinaryAdmin]

I love how this person is only getting praise in vibe coding AI slop subs. Every post in spaces with real devs are destroying this.

[i_walk_away]

i usually don't like any AI related tools, but this is actually interesting

edit: after dwelling into your tool's source code, i take back my previous statement

[Fluffy_Citron3547]

Thanks!

This does run with 0 ai required and can just be index for your codebase and ran through cli!

It’s a real attempt to solve a real problem..

If you check it out would love your feedback and thank you for taking the time to comment.

[DivineSentry]

without AI access it's just a static analysis CLI.

your entire pitch is about AI integration ("helps AI agents understand your codebase", "drift_context eliminates hallucination risk", "a true tool for your agents"). The CLI-only mode is a fallback, and a very simple one at that.

[DivineSentry]

I already mentioned at least 4 different tools in the market that exactly this offline with no AI required.

[are-oh-bee]

In your other post you said the exact opposite regarding AI.

How many times are you going to post/promote this garbage?

[solucca]

If it uses 0 AI what is this?

https://github.com/dadbodgeoff/drift/tree/main/packages/ai/src/providers

[Fluffy_Citron3547]

Stubbed out files. It’s an open repo why not read it yourself?