Glide was able to figure out something that ChatGPT hadn't, which made a big difference, because I was about to have to rewrite a bunch of code otherwise
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In the thread “Launch HN: Glide (YC W24) – AI-assisted technical design docs”, replying to this comment
Helped: Glide solved a specific problem that ChatGPT failed to address.
Got in the way: Small chat window and tricky context selection made usage difficult.
Was able to try out Glide last night ( https://glide.agenticlabs.com/task/IqHd0RV ) with an open source repo ( https://github.com/nicobrenner/commandjobs ) and really liked it Pros: it was kinda easy to get started, and Glide was able to figure out something that ChatGPT hadn't, which made a big difference, because I was about to have to rewrite a bunch of code otherwise Cons: some things were not very intuitive, the chatting window is small and it's hard to copy text and read things in a slightly longer conversation - also wish it would just ingest the repo and figure out what to include in the context by itself, the method/section searching/selecting is tricky to use …