[HN Gopher] Show HN: Pair: Open Tool for Coding with GPTs, Built...
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Show HN: Pair: Open Tool for Coding with GPTs, Built by Coding with
GPTs
Github Copilot is a great tool for leveraging GPTs while coding,
but I find that it is too "open loop" for more complex tasks that
require Q&A, feedback to guide it in a particular direction,
iteration on code execution errors, etc. There is a large class of
tasks that are better accomplished in an iterative, stateful chat-
like interface. I have been experimenting with a local command
line chat interface to GPT-4 and my mind was blown once again a few
days ago when I copied documentation for a pretty involved API into
the model context and managed to chat-guide GPT-4 to implement the
API in under 30 minutes, complete with a ridiculous amount of unit
test coverage. This involved a lot of manual copy and pasting back
and forth and other friction points that could be removed by a
streamlined REPL interface optimized for code interactions. It
occurred to me that it would be fun to build such a tool, and as
the ultimate act of dogfooding, try to build it with GPT! So PAIR
is the starting point here. You can see a recent commit message has
a log of my interactions with the model that produced that commit.
Next step is to add better mechanisms to manage the model input
context (e.g. make it easy for the model to see the latest version
of a source file when needed) followed by mechanisms for allowing
the model to suggest changes via diffs that are quickly reviewed
and accepted by the human in the loop before being applied to the
file and tested. I would love to hear from others who have
experimented with GPT pair programming in a chat-style interface
and any feedback you might have on your experience with it.
Author : wskish
Score : 11 points
Date : 2023-03-21 16:55 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| amy-why wrote:
| An immediate benefit is that you can leverage the power of GPT-4
| now for coding!
| [deleted]
| mackatsol wrote:
| Can you give us a walk through of a session?
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| While I think I understand what is going on, seeing it in action
| will make more sense. Thanks!
| wskish wrote:
| See https://github.com/jiggy-ai/pair/blob/main/example.md for a
| minimal example.
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| The bold parts are the user inputs.
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| First I give it a source file to put in the model context.
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| Then i give it an instruction, asking for a change to the
| source file to how two messages are output.
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| The model outputs a diff, which is extracted and presented for
| confirmation.
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| I accept the diff and the patch is applied to the source file.
| amy-why wrote:
| You can ask to summarize the code, suggest for improvements,
| new features... and then you can just ask it to implement
| them :).
| [deleted]
| amy-why wrote:
| Add a command to pair using pair. I just chatted with pair to add
| a /cd command. It starts with explaining the the code I was
| loading (pair.py) which was helpful. It helped me to write the
| code, can show the diff of changes.
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| I tested the code and find an issue, chatting with it and it
| fixed it. I like the work flow of chatting, and asking questions
| related to it while coding.
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