Launch HN: Glide (YC W19) – AI-assisted technical design docs

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  • aider

    aider is AI pair programming in your terminal

  • Are you aware of the work on https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider? What's your take on generating code diffs directly instead of code editing instructions?

  • autogen

    A programming framework for agentic AI. Discord: https://aka.ms/autogen-dc. Roadmap: https://aka.ms/autogen-roadmap

  • I am still playing around with the project but FYI, the parsing for the github repo URL at https://glide.agenticlabs.com/ will fail if there's a trailing slash in the repo link i.e. https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/ won't work but https://github.com/microsoft/autogen will.

  • InfluxDB

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  • dir-prompt

    Converts directory to a prompt, ignoring files that aren't important.

  • I have a tiny command line program called `dir-prompt`[1] to format and copy to clipboard all the code in a directory to something that can be pasted into ChatGPT or Typingmind, but it is a huge issue that the AI will be too brief on the generated code snippets.

    Glide is much more structured. I gave it a real test on one of my repos and it outlined something I would expect from a junior engineer who messed up a lot of little details- e.g. function names and parameters were slightly off. I think if there was a type evaluation step/it was typescript-specific it would match an engineer with 3-9mo of experience (great!). But it failed to match basic codebase conventions e.g. using require on a codebase that is all imports.

    For the authors, I would recommend using GPT4-turbo and huge context windows, or have an option to upload an OpenAI key. GPT3.5 is just not worth it- and I do sort of suspect GPT4 isn't being used because of the speed of the output but I'm not sure.

    [1] https://github.com/seveibar/dir-prompt

  • commandjobs

    Command Jobs uses AI to help software engineers find the best jobs

  • Was able to try out Glide last night (https://glide.agenticlabs.com/task/IqHd0RV) with an open source repo (https://github.com/nicobrenner/commandjobs) and really liked it

    Pros: it was kinda easy to get started, and Glide was able to figure out something that ChatGPT hadn't, which made a big difference, because I was about to have to rewrite a bunch of code otherwise

    Cons: some things were not very intuitive, the chatting window is small and it's hard to copy text and read things in a slightly longer conversation - also wish it would just ingest the repo and figure out what to include in the context by itself, the method/section searching/selecting is tricky to use

    All in all I'm very excited about what Glide can do and look forward to seeing its evolution

    Thank you for building such amazing tool

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