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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
Unfortunately not. We’re early - all our data is qualitative. But we know we need hard numbers, so we’re working on it. We don’t want to sell a novelty, the product needs to actually save time
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
No way, anyone can make silly mistakes. Ellipsis is a 2nd pair of eyes to catch stuff like that
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
The product works on draft PR's too, but not on local. Sometimes reviewers rope in Ellipsis by asking questions (we also support natural language Q&A about a PR) or by having a design discussion via GH comments and then assigning t
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
As it stands today, Ellipsis isn't sold as an AI software engineer. One of our largest learnings is that state of the art LLM's aren't good enough to write code autonomously, but they are good enough to be helpful during code
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
Automated code reviews are a step in the software development lifecycle, not a replacement for human reviewers. Ellipsis can't commit code without your permission and approval, so this particular parrot can't feather your filesyst
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
All those tools do code review, so you'll have to try them out for yourself to see which is the most helpful. But when it comes to writing code for you, not all those tools actually run your unit tests/linter/compile/etc
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
Hmm, that searches issues, which isn't the best way to see Ellipsis' work. Example of PR review: https://github.com/getzep/zep-js/pull/67#discussion_r1594781... Example of issue-to-PR: https:/
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
Ellipsis increases the quality of code a developer brings to their teammates, meaning fewer PR comments, meaning the team ships faster. It's not a replacement for human review. It's most often used by the PR author after a self re
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
Hmm... probably, send me an email.
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
Nearly all languages are supported, but some perform better than others. JS/TS, Python, Java, C++, Ruby are highly supported.
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
It's most helpful when a GitHub/Linear issue is linked because the "why" is extracted, and also for larger PR's
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
We offer Ellipsis to large open source projects for free. Email us team@ellipsis.dev I was referencing the recent xz backdoor hack.
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
Totally fair - there's a saturation right now of magic AI dev tools. We try to differentiate by not over promising/under delivering and by solving a problem that's closely matched to what today's state of the art LLM&#x2
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
Yeah, I use it for lots of boilerplate work like adding new API endpoints, new Celery jobs, and building react components.
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
Definitely agree with this. One analogy I see today is the typical testing pipeline. Unit tests get run locally, then maybe a CI job runs unit tests + integration tests, then maybe there's a deployment job which does a blue/green
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
No, but maybe if your widely adopted, poorly supported open source project uses Ellipsis for code reviews we may be able to catch that type of hack ;)
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
Ellipsis uses BUNCH of LLM agents internally. If you built your own code generation LLM agent you'd need to also build a way to execute the code that the agent writes, which is a bit of an engineering headache. We handle this, the resu
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
Teams should use both Copilot (synchronous code generation) and Ellipsis (async code gen). Sure, Copilot speeds up human dev productivity, but our take is that humans should only be spending their time on the highest value code changes and
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by hunterbrooks 2y ago
> Does Devie auto-fix compilation errors? Awesome to see you have this on your roadmap. Our product has similar functionality and it's quite a pain to get right. Excited to see how this shapes up
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Show HN: Ellipsis – Automated PR reviews and bug fixes(ellipsis.dev)
121 points by hunterbrooks 2y ago|64 comments
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by hunterbrooks 3y ago
Cool! And so very overdue
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by hunterbrooks 3y ago
Pretty cool, even if it's a bit of a toy. I'm no networking expert, but "without the need for web servers" isn't really correct because the DNS is a type of server, right?
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by hunterbrooks 3y ago
I assume you also check NameCheap when a query is submitted - how did you get it to run so fast? Are you using 3.5 on the backend? What's the NameCheap API access like? Expensive?
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Show HN: Ellipsis – Automatic pull request reviews(ellipsis.dev)
18 points by hunterbrooks 3y ago|11 comments
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by hunterbrooks 4y ago
Totally agree - Because I believe in this, I’m spending my time building a GitHub bot that raises Pull Requests from descriptive GitHub issues: https://twitter.com/mrhunterbrooks/status/163937365101010944... Clear