Buildt AI

LLM powered code search, explanations & cross-file codegen

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LLM powered code search, explanations & cross-file codegen

103 followers

Buildt is an AI tool giving you a ChatGPT like experience in your codebase. Helping developers quickly search and understand large codebases. It’s like having a colleague with perfect memory and understanding of your codebase sitting next to you.

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Launch tags:Software Engineering•Developer Tools•Artificial Intelligence

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Cosine

Maker

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👋 Hi Hunters! We’re Ali, Sam and Yang, the founders of Buildt (https://buildt.ai), an LLM-powered IDE extension that allows you to ask highly contextual and semantic questions about your code, as if you had a colleague sitting next to you who has perfect memory of your codebase. 🎉Try it out now by installing our VS Code extension - Hit the VISIT button up top ☝️ We’ve been devs on projects ranging from mobile apps, arbitrage trading systems, VR platforms to on-demand startups. Without fail, whenever a codebase gets over a certain size or we inherit legacy code, we get slowed down from not knowing where a snippet lives, or how it works. I’m sure we’ve also bothered our colleagues when we first get on-boarded for longer than they would like 🤯 Current code search products aren’t too different from CMD + F. We’ve often wanted results that aren’t captured by string matches or require some nuanced understanding of our codebase Questions such as: ✅ ‘Show me the user hook’ ✅ ‘Find where we initialize Stripe in React and add some logging’ ✅ ‘Do we use Mixpanel Analytics? If so, where and why?’ ✅ ‘How does authentication work on the backend?’ ✅ ‘Where do we handle hardware failures?’ ✨ What we’ve built! Install our VS Code extension and immediately you can start asking plain English, broad or nuanced questions about your codebase - Hit the VISIT button up top ☝️ By having a product that lives in your IDE instead of your Git repository, it gives you the power of the total contextual understanding in real time as you’re working on your codebase, there’s no need to context switch or change apps – everything is self-contained; you can easily search for code, have your code refactored and fresh code written from a single extension. 🤩 We started Buildt as a product to tackle our own frustrations and we’d love for you to try it out and let us know what you think. We can’t wait to hear your feedback, questions, and comments!

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3yr ago

Wishoom

Congratulations on your launch 👏 Code search is without a doubt a crucial component in any growing tech company. Whilst most large companies have large-scale code search, smaller teams and companies are often stuck with keyword matching and regex magic. I can see this tool offering great value to those who have remote and distributed teams 🌏 I really like the core use cases, ask and explain, refactor and edit using natural language. The integration with VS Code makes directly accessible too. My question is perhaps around any bias or limitations of using LLM for code search and edit. Are there any steps you take to improve the accuracy and reliability of the tool? For example, a simple text or regex search is direct, clear, efficient and reliable with reproducible edits. I wonder if the LLM nature of the tool makes this a challenge 💬

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3yr ago

Cosine

Maker

@nuric Thanks for the kind words, and what a great question! When creating Buildt, we wanted to provide the same level of reliability that regex search offers, but without the cumbersome syntax. Our LLM-powered search is amazing at finding exactly what you need, just like regex, but without having to craft a tricky and verbose query that takes ages to write. Buildt really shines when you actually don't know what you're looking for, so you can have a conversation with Buildt and it will find something regex never could!

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3yr ago

Hardcover

Can’t wait to try this out. Wondering if it can refactor code if you want to replace an npm package with another?

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3yr ago

Such an awesome product. Can't wait to watch it mature into a part of every developers toolkit. This type of tool is what we'll all be using in the future.

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3yr ago

Cosine

Maker

@jameswlepage thanks James! Hopefully this can help our friends and other devs get back to doing what they love! Building new fun things!

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3yr ago