I Fed My Entire Codebase to an AI With Repomix. Here's What I Learned
A journey into the lazy, brilliant, and slightly terrifying world of AI-assisted development Look, let’s be honest. We’ve all been there. It’s 1 AM, you’re staring at a janky codebase that’s grown more tangled than your headphone cables, and you have a brilliant, desperate idea: “I’ll just ask ChatGPT.” You start copy-pasting files, but by the third one, the AI has the memory of a goldfish and asks, “So, what were we talking about again?” Context window slammed shut. Face, meet palm. I needed a better way to get my AI assistant to understand the beautiful mess I’d created. That’s when I stumbled upon Repomix—a tool that promised to package my entire repository into a single, “AI-friendly” file. The premise is simple, absurd, and undeniably a product of our times: we now need specialized tools just to format our code for our robot overlords. My inner cynic called it a “digital meat grinder.” My inner lazy genius called it a “superpower.” As it turns out, they were both right. ...