Are you aware of the work on https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider? What's your take on generating code diffs directly instead of code editing instructions?
Yes, I've seen aider and I think it's a super cool product!
We tried generating code diffs with our initial product. The issue we had was that when that diff started to grow, parsing it to determine whether it did the right thing became increasingly difficult.
We will generate code diffs in the future, but we're happy with generating the instructions for two main reasons:
-The LLMs seem to produce better output when you write out the intermediate steps
-The developer understands the thinking behind the code that was written. We feel that this is an important factor as the team size grows and developers have to interact more with each other's code
