| ▲ | mkw5053 4 hours ago | |||||||
Aider [0] wrote a piece about this [1] way back in Oct 2023! I stumbled upon it in late 2023 when investigating ways to give OpenHands [2] better context dynamically. | ||||||||
| ▲ | jared_stewart 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Aider's repo-map concept is great! thanks for sharing, I'd not been aware of it. Using tree-sitter to give the LLM structural awareness is the right foundation IMO. The key difference is how that information gets to the model. Aider builds a static map, with some importance ranking, and then stuffs the most relevant part into the context window upfront. That's smart - but it is still the model receiving a fixed snapshot before it starts working. What the RLM paper crystallized for me is that the agent could query the structure interactively as it works. A live index exposed through an API lets the agent decide what to look at, how deep to go, and when it has enough. When I watch it work it's not one or two lookups but many, each informed by what the previous revealed. The recursive exploration pattern is the core difference. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | mkw5053 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
I just looked and it was posted a number of times with 0 discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38062493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41411187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40231527 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39993459 | ||||||||