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0 pointslayer81y ago0 comments

You may work in a limited scope at a time, but you are aware how it fits into the larger scope, and more often than not you actually have to connect things across different scopes.

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kridsdale31y ago

I work on projects with hundreds of thousands of files and tens of millions of lines. I am honestly clueless how most of it fits together and working here as a human feels often not too different (just a few steps of scale higher) than LLM-based coding like Cursor.

jack_pp1y ago

Well you can use an LLM similarly. Have it write docs for all your files including a summary for each function / class, ideally in order of dependency. Then use only the summaries in context. This should significantly lower your token count.

Haven't tried it personally but it should work

layer8OP1y ago

In my experience, you often remember and/or discover relationships to other parts of the system during the current development task, by delving into the implementation. These relationships also aren't necessarily explicit in the code you're looking at. For example, they can relate to domain-level invariants or to shared resources, or simply shared patterns and conventions. In general you can't prepare everything that would be relevant up front.

lanthissa1y ago

you do the same thing with the llm, you have it describe the api of modules not related to your code and that in place of those segments of the code.

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