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🤔 What comes after Copilot? My take: a conversation with your codebase! Introducing Tensai, your repo-level code assistant ❔ Ask complex questions ✅ Automatically generate PRs for complex tasks More👇

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Jay Hack3 years ago

⚡Tensai aspires to be your primary interface to your codebase.⚡ While Copilot is useful, most developer time isn't spent editing isolated files.

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Jay Hack3 years ago

The biggest challenges facing developers include: - Understanding unfamiliar codebases - Making changes with system-wide impacts - Making large, repo-wide code edits

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Jay Hack3 years ago

🤓 Tensai for Q&A Ramping up on a new job/OSS project? Tensai indexes your entire codebase and does the research for you. Just ask a question in plain english => get an answer => continue the dialogue like in ChatGPT!

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Jay Hack3 years ago

🛠️ Tensai for code edits/feautres Not sure where to start on your next Jira ticket? Tensai will generate a plan, present it to you, take your feedback, then generate a PR that implements the changes across arbitrarily many files. Start your next Jira ticket here.

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Jay Hack3 years ago

Why this design? A key consideration is that AI systems are currently unstable. In order to inspire developer confidence, we need to keep a human in the loop. Never push an AI-generated PR blind.

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Jay Hack3 years ago

This is just the beginning. Future features include: - Larger-scale (10k+ files) codebases - Autogeneration of tests - AI "linting" - security flaw detection, etc. - Large-scale code migrations - Automated feature suggestions And much more...

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Jay Hack3 years ago

Interested in trying it out? DM me or sign up at I'll be piloting this with a few folks before a wider release. Enjoy, and lmk if you have any feedback. Thanks!

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Daniel Fein3 years ago

This is really insane. Software engineers who were worried about their jobs are right - with a system like this in place you can basically sit back while openAI makes GPT4, 5, etc. Slowly eradicating the career until it’s just one engineer typing requests to the codebase

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Jay Hack3 years ago

I'm glad you like this! I disagree with the conclusion that software engineers will lose their jobs. I think we will see a higher portion of the population building software in the future; the substance of that job will change though. More high-level, just like C++ => assembly

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Akumu3 years ago

GitHub's already had repo-level Copilot in progress for a bit.

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