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I like this! It would be great if it was a hosted solution where I could just add any repository to the URL, like https://pkg.go.dev/ does for the godocs.

Possibly silly question, but is this aimed at Go repos only because of some structural reason, or because this was the author's intention?

I can see this approach being useful across non-Go repositories too.

Just Go for now. .. useful across non-Go repositories too. yes

why Go

What I am using

Also, just for posterity, in terms of similar solutions that I know of there's Whiteboard [0] and T3's Guide view [1]

[0] https://dev.fast/

[1] https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code

Whats the validation strategy that you used for this? I run a similar project and I found that golden repos were needed to prevent drift. Have you stress tested this to find any limits? I compared my go work to ctags and treesitter for proof of functions found and list precision and recall.

I got inspired and "vibe coded" a Perl version :) https://github.com/interrupt21h/perl-codemap

I will add a link..

Interesting! It would be cool to see this as a cli tool to allow agents to efficiently inspect codebases

I took a bit different approach assuming that agents can use the language servers to get structure and just trying to keep them honest. With this in a hook a lot of stuff is caught quickly without wasting a lot of context. https://github.com/dmoose/gochecks

Agents are pretty savvy with the `go doc` and `go list` builtins, especially if you nudge them!

This is really cool. I could see adding this alongside the godocs to my open source projects.

> Every Go package in github.com/peterretief/yggstore, what it builds on, and the functions in each of its files. Tests are left out.

it's a cool idea, but reads super sloppy, sorry. There is literally no effort in this.

It is just the idea, for me to navigate my project code, free to use and change

It's ironic you didn't put any effort into calling out the lack of effort put in the project. Btw, the project README is fine, this is AIslop hysteria.

And what would effort look like, besides inspecting code and the result to find the message I quoted, huh?

Idk, the project looks good to me, you are the one making claims and not backing them up properly. To me you just disagree with this specific aesthetic choice and are lazily extrapolating to the rest of the project just in case the comment could catch some upvotes.

specific aesthetic means raw claude slop w/o changing anything about it? that's no lazy extrapolation my dude. I'm just saying it lowers the value of the project, bc I can assume that it's probably not gonna be touched any further (without throwing shade on op, I think it's a cool idea. it's just way behind it's potential bc of the claude copy and the claude design in the report). it's a few commits made by claude, I assume there was no real work on the side of op. that lowers my felt value of the project. that's neither lazy nor unfair, it's the last 2 years of vibecoding? if op decides to clean it up, I'd be happy to explore it actually. I kinda do measure projects by human effort. I don't know why you're throwing shade bc you seem to disagree.

In my 20+ years of coding I have produced way worse slop that Claude wrote here.

Ironically this tiny utilty was produced to make keeping up with Ai code a little easier.

my advice to you is to write code that manages Ai, I dont think Ai is going away any time soon...

> Ironically this tiny utilty was produced to make keeping up with Ai code a little easier.

which is fine. I just think we're losing something important when we reduce friction and effort. and for me--totally personal preference--keeping raw claude output is just that. I don't wanna throw too much shade on you or your project tho, that wasn't my intention. I'm just fed up with the moronic way of how claude writes, designs, etc.

I don't totally disagree with you and have been feeling a bit guilty of posting this work as my own when in fact it is generated by Claude, even though I try and make it clear that much of the code is generated.

I have never been able to produce this volume of work so it is very tempting to let it all hang out, so to say

The concepts are all mine and I am really happy to be able to give back to the open source community albeit a small gesture.

I never felt any malice in your comments btw.

would be nice if there was a picture of the final result in the README.md

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