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Achyut Srivastava
Achyut Srivastava

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I'm a 14yo solo dev wrestling with AST parsing & token bloat in my autonomous Coder beta – any tips?

Hook: Building an autonomous code agent that can plan multi‑file diffs felt like trying to thread a needle in a storm — every change could break something.

Technical Insight: I tackled the token‑inflation problem by introducing a context‑window slicer that extracts only the relevant AST nodes before sending them to the model, and I added a diff‑preview validator that runs ast.parse and flake8 in a sandbox before applying changes.

# Simplified context slicer
def extract_relevant_nodes(tree, start_line, end_line):
    # keep only nodes whose source spans the target range
    return [n for n in tree.body if start_line <= n.lineno <= end_line]
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Beta status: This is an active, experimental beta. Everything is still being hammered out, and I’m sharing the raw code on my GitHub repo for the community to test.

Call for help: If you’ve wrestled with large repository traversal or have ideas for smarter context selection, I’d love your feedback, architectural suggestions, or bug reports. Let’s break this together.

🔗 Try the live beta: https://luxurai.in

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