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seafisher | 4 months ago | on: Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It

I'm currently building one based on tree-sitter: https://github.com/CRJFisher/code-charter. It's still in development but will be released soon (this year). Will support Python, JS/TS, Rust to begin with others (like Java) to follow.

seafisher | 4 months ago | on: Claude outage

Time to review the slop

seafisher | 1 year ago | on: We need visual programming. No, not like that

This article really hits home for me. I've been working on a tool called Code Charter, which aims to do exactly what you're advocating for: provide visual representations of code that make it easier to understand.

I'm taking a slightly different approach than some of the tools mentioned here. Code Charter uses successive LLM calls to distill the key patterns (i.e. business logic) in code, creating a semantic map for call graphs in a codebase. This is useful for understanding the architecture of a project and, during development, for moving between the high level and the implementation code.

It is still in development and will be released soon as an extension for VSCode.

Check it out if you're interested: https://github.com/CRJFisher/code-charter