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This is something that I've also been wanting to play with. The token limit is too small for my codebase so I haven't really bothered, but it would be nice to

This is something that I've also been wanting to play with. The token limit is too small for my codebase so I haven't really bothered, but it would be nice to tell it all my code and then say "refactor everything of the form `err = foo` into `if err := foo; ...`". If AI is going to take my job, it is going to have to learn to do maintenance!

anotherpaulg 3y ago
Give aider a try. As long as each file fits in the context window, it should work. With gpt-3.5-turbo-16k or gpt-4 you can edit files up to around 30 kbytes in size. If you have access to gpt-4-32k, you could edit files up to about 120 kbytes. See the notes here for more info: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider#gpt-4-vs-gpt-35 https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider#gpt-4-vs-gpt-35 I use GPT for all kinds of busy work, and code quality type work. Adding test cases or quality of life features. Things that I might not have the energy to do myself. GPT can often accomplish these tasks off a 1-2 sentence request. Or if not, it will do all the boilerplate and get you 80% of the way there and it's easy to polish up the final 20%.
NicoJuicy 3y ago
Perhaps it helps: Don't entirely copy-paste your code base. Eg. I adjusted the prompt to the logical separation in my project ( Eg. the module and the task of the class can be derived from it's namespace) and then indexed the codebase through the namespace + classes + method names with their parameters. It helps adding more codebase to the prompt.