AlexC04

The analogy meanders a bit in getting to the point, but I generally enjoyed the journey of the read and also, I think this is starting to look like an increasingly important perspective.

Increasingly I've been asking the LLM to do things that are only seconds of work to do manually on my own. Earlier in the process of learning how to use these things I think that was a somewhat reasonable decision in the name of learning how these things work.

Now... It's maybe the case that getting a bit more practice in with keeping on top of how we do things the manual way ... might still have value? both for the token cost and perhaps for the value that gets unlocked through understanding your systems a little better?

I'm also a little torn since the leaders in the field of "tokens for everything" like Cherny and Karpathy are pretty vocal about not writing any code on their own anymore. While they also don't really pay for tokens the way the rest of us do (I'm out of pocket for mine) is there something to be said for joining that frontier wave of developers?

this is pretty interesting - just from the screenshots it looks like an electron app?

have you or had you considered pursuing a vscode extension? (and by extension cursor?)

In my free time I'm also building out a set of agentic tools and I've found that there's so much you get "for free" by working in the space where developers already are.

Git integrations, text editing, highlighting, etc...

Now - I'm still in pre-alpha local development only so who knows what my adoption story will look like after I actually get it onto the vscode marketplace, but I dunno - just making converstaion I guess :D

Anyways, this really seems like an interesting project and I'll take a deeper look outside of office hours! Thanks for sharing.

oooh ... I wonder if it would be sufficient to just write a markdown gramar for TS?! I should ask my AI what it thinks.. I'm sure it'll tell me I'm absoloutely right and a very good and smart boy.

I first leanred about tree sitter a couple months back when I started looking at what was inside the NPM fodler for claude. It's a really cool library.

One of the things it made me think about is whether it made sense for using when editing large markdown files would it be more efficient to convert a document form markdown to DOM then back again for the purposes of editing a large markdown file via code agents? (or a json)

The theory being that agents are always asking me for pemission to use sed in bash to edit markdown files -- could tree-sitter do the same thing using its code-editing capabilities? And would that difference be materially impactful? Could I lower the token cost of writing an extensive plan by choosing a format that allows me to use tree sitter?

I really haven't explored that much yet since I've been working on other things but it was more just one of those things that make you go hmmmmm... maybe someone else knows :)

yeah - I thought the first half of the article (up until "introducing ace") was actually really great thoguh.

this is really good. it aligns closely with what I've been writing on the same subject (but is way better :) )

nice share. thanks.

OH! I commented before I realized it was a product pitch ... literal seconds before she introduced ACE.

If I'm honest, the idea of a collaborative agentic coding interface is pretty novel and interesting. Still impressed with the article just the nature of my appreciation has changed.

but how does it perform on pelican riding a bicycle bench? why are they hiding the truth?!

(edit: I hope this is an obvious joke. less facetiously these are pretty jaw dropping numbers)

Hey folks, I wrote this. If you're interested in the concepts or pressure testing the ideas a little deeper, please feel free to comment here or reach out directly.

I appreciate that it's pretty long feel free to point your LLMs at it