chatgpt VS j-dev

We can already do that ourselves, thank you.

seems like you can accomplish that w/ https://github.com/emacs-openai/chatgpt

I'm confused as to what this is? Is it just a wrapper to gpt API that parses the response? And it looks like it manages the convo so you don't have to send over entire history?

I have a somewhat related project that wraps the gpt API and let's you interact in a codebase, where the LLM can request access to certain files, propose new files and edits

https://github.com/breeko/j-dev

I had this same idea and started working on something for this purpose called j-dev [0]. It started as a fork off smol-dev [1] which basically gets GPT to write your entire project from scratch. And then you would have to iterate the prompt to nuke everything and re-write everything, filling in increasingly complicated statements like "oh except in this function make sure you return a promise"

j-dev is basically a CLI where it gives a prompt similar to the one in the parent article. You start with a prompt and the CLI fills in the directory contents (excluding gitignore). Then it requests access to the files it thinks it wants. And then it can edit, delete or add files or ask for followup based on your response.

It also addresses the problem that a lot of these tools eat up way too many tokens so a single prompt to something like smol-dev would eat up a few dollars on every iterations.

It's still very much a work in progress and i'll prob do a show hn next week but I would love some feedback

[0] https://github.com/breeko/j-dev

[1] https://github.com/smol-ai/developer