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		zh2408 on April 20, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases... By default we use both based on regex: DEFAULT_INCLUDE_PATTERNS = { ".py", ".js", ".jsx", ".ts", ".tsx", ".go", ".java", ".pyi", ".pyx", ".c", ".cc", ".cpp", ".h", ".md", ".rst", "Dockerfile", "Makefile", ".yaml", ".yml", } DEFAULT_EXCLUDE_PATTERNS = { "test", "tests/", "docs/", "examples/", "v1/", "dist/", "build/", "experimental/", "deprecated/", "legacy/", ".git/", ".github/", ".next/", ".vscode/", "obj/", "bin/", "node_modules/", ".log" }

m0rde on April 20, 2025 | [–]

Have you tried giving it tests? Curious if you found they made things worse.

Tokumei-no-hito on April 20, 2025 | [–]

why exclude tests and docs by default?

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