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Show HN: "GPT Take the Wheel" – write what you want, let GPT implement it

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As mentioned in the readme, this was directly inspired by the this project: https://github.com/mpoon/gpt-repository-loader And by the top comment on the HN thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191303 Thanks to both the creator and commenter there for the idea.

This adds another "twist", in that if you run the "take the wheel" version, it'll automatically implement the changes (i.e. overwrite a file with whatever GPT spits out) and show you the git diff. This is obviously potentially unsafe - you're overwriting your files with whatever the LLM spits out, so please be careful and don't run it somewhere with important files, or in a repo with files you wouldn't paste into the chatGPT input box. I wouldn't even install this on a work computer.

This is pretty basic and isn't necessarily all that useful for real work, the workflow is make request -> send file(s) -> GPT changes one file. There's no way to continue a conversation, or ask it to make multi-file changes etc. It's fun to play with though!

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This is cool! I was going to build something similar this weekend, but you beat me to it.

I wonder if, in the short term at least, this will affect how we modularize code. I've already started thinking how, for a few instances at least, I'm going to vertically combine the three parts of MVC, so that GPT would have all the needed context for certain requests.

Super fun!

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