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Ahmed Rakan
Ahmed Rakan

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Building the Next-Gen Way Developers Explore Code

I spent a few hours this Friday revisiting some of my older projects code I wrote long before LLMs existed in the form we know today.

The motivation was simple: I don t see LLMs as an enemy to developers, but as a force multiplier a gap allowing us to reason faster, explore deeper, and understand systems more clearly.

The difference is dramatic, and you can see it directly in the YT video linked below.

The goal of this experiment is to build an out-of-the-box code exploration and documentation tool one that can 10 100× the speed at which developers form a mental model of unfamiliar codebases.

Today, most code exploration relies on:

  • Traditional IDE graphical interfaces
  • Power-user editors like NeoVim with complex keyboard workflows

This experiment explores a different approach:

  • A simple, interactive network graph
  • Powerful search and navigation
  • Tight integration with familiar IDEs like VS Code

This is an early experiment but it points toward what next-generation code exploration could look like.

I am sharing this to look for early-users ( adopters ), supporters and contirboutors.

Here is the discord channel I built for this purpose:

https://discord.gg/KvJ3GWEb

Youtube Video :

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