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by behat 1135 days ago
Very interesting! Good to know that gpt-4 was a step change here.

I tried with 3.5 since that's all I have access to currently, I asked it to do a few things in a ruby app step by step, touching one file at a time, and it worked well! A configuration option that lets you ask the tool to just make file edits, and let me commit later would be useful.

What happens when the files are too large?

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Thanks for giving it a try! Glad to hear it was working for you with 3.5.

If you exceed the context window, it will just throw an exception and fail.

I will add a config to disable auto commits. But I find it liberating to use the git history as an undo stack. You can do experiments on a branch and discard it if things don't work out.

If you upgrade to the newest version, it has a --no-auto-commit switch.