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by mrlowlevel 456 days ago
Do any of these tools use the rich information from the AST to pull in context? Coupled with semantic search for entry points into the AST, it feels like you could do a lot…
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Don’t they all do this? Surely they’re not just doing naive text, n-gram, regex, embeddings, etc, right?
they are just a language model generating text which happens to be code, ASTs are not used afaik