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by williamzeng0 3y ago
I really agree with the second point. Even if there are enough junior devs, there's small issues where you're on the go and delegating is relatively expensive as the expected turn-around time is generally in the hours. Often times
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
Cool! We're focused on close integration with GitHub and handling smaller, more focused tasks. We also have plans to run Sweep migrations, let me know if you'd like to see that!
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
Haha, that's a bad way to measure output. Unfortunately the commits are attributed to Sweep ;)
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
Interesting, that change would take some time to materialize. In the meantime it might be best to adopt both? I don't see it as a complete substitute. Right now you could have some junior devs picking up work that Sweep can't hand
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
Let's do it, we'll be online to help in the discord https://discord.com/invite/sweep-ai . It'll also help if you have GitHub actions to run the tests, do you have it setup?
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
It's necessary for sure, but we want to let junior devs choose to do the more interesting work. We're also trying to make it easy to use Sweep. One outcome is an entirely simulated teammate, which is part of what we're doing
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
Yep, small shops definitely benefit. Fewer people means each person already knows more of the codebase. For a 3 person team they might know >50% each, while for a 10 person team they might only know 10%. The previous belief here would be
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
+1, The PRs we made 2 months ago were really bad. That's also been the biggest barrier to getting them merged. Definitely check out what we've been able to merge now though. The ceiling for tools like Sweep is incredibly high.
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
Sweep is targeted towards senior devs that can do two things. 1. review code quickly 2. articulate requirements well Also, here's another example of "grunt work". Sweep added a banner to our landing page, and I didn't to
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
Yep, these bugs can be trivial but that initial context switch, creating a branch, etc tends to drain your energy. Sweep can do this right now, you just have to label it yourself. We're doing this right now so you don't get floode
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
For sure, I completely agree. Reviewing code can be really annoying, especially if it's not well written/broken. We realized this last month, so we've moved closer to providing tested pull requests. Also as a dev, writing cod
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
Thats a good point, I really dislike when Sweep fails. That's why we're so focused on PR validation like self-review and GitHub actions, which brings it even closer to a junior dev. We wrote another blog on it here: https:/&
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
Thanks! We have a couple more demos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUmi0YoUNHiITnYUrm5tnLQ , warning the audio is not the best :)
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Launch HN: Sweep (YC S23) – A bot to create simple PRs in your codebase(github.com)
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
Completely agree, coding with chatGPT is hard. I've been using this bot I wrote to code. You describe what you want in your github repo and it just writes the code and pull request for you. https://github.com/sweepai&#x
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
Hahaha as evaluated by Sweep
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
Do you mean coding bot? We did this at Sweep AI, happy to share our repo: https://github.com/sweepai/sweep#getting-started-
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AI junior developer looking for a job(github.com)
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Code Search Infra for an AI junior developer – that doesn't store code(docs.sweep.dev)
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by williamzeng0 3y ago
Good point! It works well at documentation changes. We currently have it check the github actions, but this is definitely not enough. Thanks for bringing this up, we'll continue improving how Sweep tests code. Currently we only support
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Show HN: Sweep – AI-Powered Junior Developer for Tech Debt(github.com)
7 points by williamzeng0 3y ago|2 comments