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# Improving GPT-4's codebase understanding with ctags
GPT-4 is extremely useful for "self-contained" coding tasks,
like generating new code or modifying a pure function without dependencies.
But it's difficult to use GPT-4 to modify code with dependencies
that are scattered across many files of a codebase.
To modify such code, GPT needs to see all of these dependencies.
like generating brand new code or modifying a pure function without dependencies.
But it's difficult to use GPT-4 to modify or extend
a complex pre-existing codebase, which has many dependencies
between different parts of the system.
To modify such code, GPT needs to understand all of these dependencies.
And depending on the assigned coding task, it may not be obvious
how to even determine which parts of the repo are relevent a priori.
Further, all of this context needs to fit within GPT-4's 8k-token
how to even determine which parts of the repo are relevent to the task.
Further, assuming we can identify the correct context, it still
needs to fit within GPT-4's 8k-token
context window.
To address this issue, `aider` has