> mine also makes extensive use of things like abstract syntax tree library to help with surgical edits from the LLM

Tell me more! This takes me way back. I did one like this in the GPT-4 days! (8k context window)

Start off with my video!!! You can also try it with zero setup (you can code right there on the static web page, it will save your edits in the browser indexed DB, and hotpatch them back into the code before it runs it.... also you can grant permission to the browser to read/write to a local directory)

recursi.dev

Seriously, I'm looking for collaborators.

There's upwards of 80,000 lines of code in the editor system, a lot to it to make sure that even newbies don't get stuck.... so that's kind of proof the system works since it doesn't break down when the codebase grows large.