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Show HN: "GPT Take the Wheel" – write what you want, let GPT implement it

4 pointsby NameErrorabout 2 years ago
As mentioned in the readme, this was directly inspired by the this project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mpoon&#x2F;gpt-repository-loader">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mpoon&#x2F;gpt-repository-loader</a> And by the top comment on the HN thread about it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35191303" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35191303</a> Thanks to both the creator and commenter there for the idea.<p>This adds another &quot;twist&quot;, in that if you run the &quot;take the wheel&quot; version, it&#x27;ll automatically implement the changes (i.e. overwrite a file with whatever GPT spits out) and show you the git diff. This is obviously potentially unsafe - you&#x27;re overwriting your files with whatever the LLM spits out, so please be careful and don&#x27;t run it somewhere with important files, or in a repo with files you wouldn&#x27;t paste into the chatGPT input box. I wouldn&#x27;t even install this on a work computer.<p>This is pretty basic and isn&#x27;t necessarily all that useful for real work, the workflow is make request -&gt; send file(s) -&gt; GPT changes one file. There&#x27;s no way to continue a conversation, or ask it to make multi-file changes etc. It&#x27;s fun to play with though!

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pstormabout 2 years ago
This is cool! I was going to build something similar this weekend, but you beat me to it.<p>I wonder if, in the short term at least, this will affect how we modularize code. I&#x27;ve already started thinking how, for a few instances at least, I&#x27;m going to vertically combine the three parts of MVC, so that GPT would have all the needed context for certain requests.
jmcminisabout 2 years ago
Super fun!