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Show HN: OpenAI dev assistant GUI with local code interpreter

67 points by mdev23 3y ago

wavesounds 3y ago
I wish there was a way to see exactly what its planning on doing before it does it when you say something like "save it to my desktop".
cdolan 3y ago
I was looking for something like this today! Thank you for building this
CGamesPlay 3y ago
I’m convinced that the best way to do this is actually to have a local daemon that exposes itself as a regular ChatGPT plug-in with the necessary features. That way, we can use the regular ChatGPT GUI, but it can still access whatever we like. This should work since IIUC all ChatGPT plug-in API calls happen on the client computer already.
- vorticalbox 3y ago
  They do, chatGPT returns a list of tools it wants (this the right term?) to call and the arguments to call it with. Up to the developer to map the args to the function and give the result back in the message history.
  - CGamesPlay 3y ago
    You misunderstood me. I’m saying instead of being a GUI, this could be a ChatGPT plug-in. That way the developer can focus on providing a smart API that does what the user wants, and not wasting time writing a GUI.
    - kordlessagain 3y ago
      Why is writing a better UI a waste of time?
  - fzzzy 3y ago
    Plugins use webhooks; tools work the way you describe.
- deleted 3y ago
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ErikBjare 3y ago
Neat! Nice that you made a somewhat proper UI for it. Many tools like this, so many that I started keeping a list: https://github.com/ErikBjare/are-copilots-local-yet https://github.com/ErikBjare/are-copilots-local-yet I also built my own terminal based tool "gptme" (also with code interpreter abilities, and can run as a GitHub bot) that I use daily, instead of ChatGPT: https://github.com/ErikBjare/gptme https://github.com/ErikBjare/gptme
- mdev23 3y ago
  nice! i'll add a PR for DODA
- TrickardRixx 3y ago
  On your list I'm not sure I understand what the "Editor Extension"/"Tool" distinction is. Both continue and rift are under "Tools", but they are VSCode extensions.
- deleted 3y ago
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luckman212 3y ago
Is there any reasonable way yet to allow ChatGPT to access the full contents of a GitHub repo and ask questions about it? I tried some months ago and hit a brick wall, not sure if anything's changed.
- victorbjorklund 3y ago
  Tried now. I downloaded a whole repo for a Phoenix Project (so more than 1 file) and uploaded it to ChatGPT as a zip file. It works but answers are not perfect but I guess a python/javascript project should work better since it has more training data on those languages.
- jorl17 3y ago
  Aider might be what you are looking for https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
- mdev23 3y ago
  thats the end goal for this type of tool. right now you just guide the bot into the repo and ask it to read individual files
- zora_goron 3y ago
  I built a local developer-mode plugin that gives ChatGPT access to a local directory [0] -- it's pretty basic in terms of functionality (just simple bridge to access/read files) but I've found a surprising amount of value from it [1]! [0] https://github.com/samrawal/chatgpt-localfiles https://github.com/samrawal/chatgpt-localfiles [1] https://samrawal.substack.com/p/example-driven-development https://samrawal.substack.com/p/example-driven-development
- replwoacause 3y ago
  https://cursor.sh https://cursor.sh does a good job for me
- penjelly 3y ago
  you can give it a github link but the context size isnt big enough for large projects to be inserted directly.
hereme888 3y ago
How is it different/better than Open-Interpreter?
- mdev23 3y ago
  web UI so it can best hosted on a server
adr1an 3y ago
cosine.sh was discussed here not long ago iirc

67 points by mdev23 3y ago

I wish there was a way to see exactly what its planning on doing before it does it when you say something like "save it to my desktop".

cdolan 3y ago

I was looking for something like this today! Thank you for building this

CGamesPlay 3y ago

I’m convinced that the best way to do this is actually to have a local daemon that exposes itself as a regular ChatGPT plug-in with the necessary features. That way, we can use the regular ChatGPT GUI, but it can still access whatever we like. This should work since IIUC all ChatGPT plug-in API calls happen on the client computer already.

vorticalbox 3y ago
They do, chatGPT returns a list of tools it wants (this the right term?) to call and the arguments to call it with. Up to the developer to map the args to the function and give the result back in the message history.
- CGamesPlay 3y ago
  You misunderstood me. I’m saying instead of being a GUI, this could be a ChatGPT plug-in. That way the developer can focus on providing a smart API that does what the user wants, and not wasting time writing a GUI.
  - kordlessagain 3y ago
    Why is writing a better UI a waste of time?
- fzzzy 3y ago
  Plugins use webhooks; tools work the way you describe.
deleted 3y ago
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ErikBjare 3y ago

Neat! Nice that you made a somewhat proper UI for it. Many tools like this, so many that I started keeping a list: https://github.com/ErikBjare/are-copilots-local-yet https://github.com/ErikBjare/are-copilots-local-yet I also built my own terminal based tool "gptme" (also with code interpreter abilities, and can run as a GitHub bot) that I use daily, instead of ChatGPT: https://github.com/ErikBjare/gptme https://github.com/ErikBjare/gptme

mdev23 3y ago
nice! i'll add a PR for DODA
TrickardRixx 3y ago
On your list I'm not sure I understand what the "Editor Extension"/"Tool" distinction is. Both continue and rift are under "Tools", but they are VSCode extensions.
deleted 3y ago
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luckman212 3y ago

Is there any reasonable way yet to allow ChatGPT to access the full contents of a GitHub repo and ask questions about it? I tried some months ago and hit a brick wall, not sure if anything's changed.

victorbjorklund 3y ago
Tried now. I downloaded a whole repo for a Phoenix Project (so more than 1 file) and uploaded it to ChatGPT as a zip file. It works but answers are not perfect but I guess a python/javascript project should work better since it has more training data on those languages.
jorl17 3y ago
Aider might be what you are looking for https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
mdev23 3y ago
thats the end goal for this type of tool. right now you just guide the bot into the repo and ask it to read individual files
zora_goron 3y ago
I built a local developer-mode plugin that gives ChatGPT access to a local directory [0] -- it's pretty basic in terms of functionality (just simple bridge to access/read files) but I've found a surprising amount of value from it [1]! [0] https://github.com/samrawal/chatgpt-localfiles https://github.com/samrawal/chatgpt-localfiles [1] https://samrawal.substack.com/p/example-driven-development https://samrawal.substack.com/p/example-driven-development
replwoacause 3y ago
https://cursor.sh https://cursor.sh does a good job for me
penjelly 3y ago
you can give it a github link but the context size isnt big enough for large projects to be inserted directly.

hereme888 3y ago

How is it different/better than Open-Interpreter?

mdev23 3y ago
web UI so it can best hosted on a server

adr1an 3y ago

cosine.sh was discussed here not long ago iirc