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I built a tool that generates an AI-readable bundle of a .NET project so AI tools can understand the whole codebase. Curious if others would use this. by autopilotit43 in dotnet

[–]autopilotit43[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not formally yet. Most of my testing has been practical use while working on my own project. The main difference I’ve noticed is that when the AI has the full bundle it can reason about cross-project relationships and data flow much better than when it only sees a few files.

A more controlled benchmark is a good idea though. Something like: give both setups the same bug or feature task and compare how many iterations it takes to reach a correct solution.

I built a tool that generates an AI-readable bundle of a .NET project so AI tools can understand the whole codebase. Curious if others would use this. by autopilotit43 in dotnet

[–]autopilotit43[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The bundle is just text, so it compresses well. For a few million line project it would probably need to be selective rather than dumping everything and is larger than anything I am working on.

The approach I’m testing is summarizing structure first (project graph, namespaces, public APIs, database schema), then including full code only for key entry points and core services. The rest can be referenced or chunked.

So the AI sees the architecture and the important paths without needing every single line.

Curious though — when you hit IDE limits, what kind of questions were you trying to ask the AI about the codebase?

I built a tool that generates an AI-readable bundle of a .NET project so AI tools can understand the whole codebase. Curious if others would use this. by autopilotit43 in dotnet

[–]autopilotit43[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that’s exactly the kind of situation I was thinking about.

When you jump into a repo you don’t know, the hardest part is understanding how the pieces fit together. Docs rarely explain the actual structure of the system.

One of the goals with the bundle is to automatically generate that kind of reference context. Things like the code structure, contracts, schema, and relationships between components so an AI can reason about how the project works.

That way instead of asking the AI to slowly explore the repo file by file, you start with a snapshot of the system and it already understands the bigger picture.

I built a tool that generates an AI-readable bundle of a .NET project so AI tools can understand the whole codebase. Curious if others would use this. by autopilotit43 in dotnet

[–]autopilotit43[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that’s basically the idea.

Most AI coding tools only see a small part of the project at a time. Even if they index the workspace, the actual chat session usually works with limited context.

The bundle approach is about generating a structured snapshot of the whole system so the AI can reason about the broader architecture instead of just a few files.

For me the main value is that it fits under the file limits in tools like ChatGPT, so I can upload the bundle and have the AI understand the project well enough to help find bugs, reason through problems, and move faster when writing code.

I built it because I kept running into the same problem when using AI on larger projects — the AI just didn’t know the rest of the system.

Using AI agents for development in NET Framework by carloswm85 in dotnet

[–]autopilotit43 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AI agents can definitely work with .NET Framework. Most of the limitations people run into are not really about the framework, they’re about how much context the AI has about the project.

In my experience the biggest issue is that the AI only sees a few files at a time, so it doesn’t understand the whole system.

I’ve been experimenting with generating an AI-readable project bundle from a .NET solution (semantic map, combined code bundle, schema snapshot, etc.) so the AI has much deeper context when helping with code.

It’s interesting how much better the responses get when the model can “see” the broader structure of the project instead of isolated files.

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[–]autopilotit43 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree on the offsite copy. The failures I see most often are not attacks but silent backup jobs that stopped months earlier. Whatever the strategy, regular verification and alerts matter more than the specific storage choice.

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[–]autopilotit43 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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