Show HN: Treepeat – Code similarity detection using Tree-sitter (github.com)

39 points by 91awebsi 2 days ago

2 comments:

by ryuuseijin 34 minutes ago

This is what I wanted to help with duplicate code detection, which is now a real problem with agentic programming since the agent tends to duplicate helper functions a lot in bigger codebases.

I ended up writing my own tool [1] that uses vector search, which works but can be unusably slow in large codebases.

I will give this a shot.

[1]: https://github.com/ninjaxtools/slopdex

by bradleyy 2 hours ago

Thanks for posting this; I'm very interested in finding similar chunks of code in an AST-ish fashion, and using tree-sitter seems perfect.

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