FYI, I think my open source tool aider would work out of the box to serve this use case. You would just run:
aider file.py —msg “implement the comments”
https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider https://www.mentat.codes/ https://www.gitwit.dev/ https://www.second.dev/
Right now only GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 seem to be capable of this sort of "code editing" task. But aider has support for connecting to other/local LLMs and an active community of folks experimenting with them.
It lets you pair program with gpt-4 like you are describing. But the source code lives in your local git repo. You can start a new project or work with an existing repo. You can fluidly switch back and forth between a coding chat where you ask gpt to edit the code and your own editor to make edits yourself.
Let me know if you have a chance to try it out.
Here is a chat transcript [1] that illustrates how you can use aider to explore an existing git repo, understand it and then make changes. As another example I needed a new feature in the glow tool and was able to make a PR [2] for it, even though I don't know anything about that codebase or even how to write golang.
[0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
I am also working on an open source CLI tool in this space [0]. I've taken a different approach, more focused on chatting with GPT to have it edit the code in your local git repo.
But my tool also provides GPT with a semantic map of your repo and the ability to ask to see particular files, etc. I use it to answer questions about unknown codebases all the time, and then start asking it to make changes. I have a chat transcript that illustrates that here [1]. As another example I needed a new feature in the glow tool and was able to make a PR [2] for it, even though I don't know anything about that codebase or even how to write golang.
Also, there's a small discord [3] where a few of us working on "AI coding tools" have been sharing ideas. You might be interested in joining the conversation over there.
[0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
[1] https://aider.chat/examples/2048-game.html
I've been focused on similar concepts with my open source AI coding tool. My tool is a command line GPT chat tool. You can ask it to write or edit code in any git repo. It displays live diffs as the AI edits stream in and automatically integrates them into your source files. I think this is similar to what your article is describing?
Folks might want to check out `aider` if they want to do the style of AI coding you're showing, but on their own git repos.
I put together a tool called `aider` for chatting with GPT-4 about code, having it make changes and keeping track of it all in git. It's feeling like a very nice workflow.
@mazzystar you might want to give it a try if you have GPT-4 api access: