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Understand Large Codebases Faster Using GitIngest

Often as researchers we have to deal with large and ugly codebases – this is not new, I know. Alas, fear not, now we have large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and friends which make things a little faster! In this blogpost I will show you how to use GitIngest to do this even faster using your favourite LLM.

No more copy pasting files individually or writing a paragraph explaining the directory structure, or even worse, relying on an LLM to use web search to find the codebase. As the codebase grows, the unreliability of these methods does too. GitIngest makes any “whole” codebase, prompt friendly – one prompt will be all you need!

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