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Making something on your own(without any LLM) feels so good

A developer built a custom tool that indexed the entire Django repository in 2.5 minutes and generated a graph for each function searched, expressing satisfaction with creating something without using a large language model.

read1 min views1 publishedJul 15, 2026

today ran my own tool over the whole django repo it indexed it in 2.5 minutes and generated a whole graph for each function i searched, its always awesome to look at something you build on your own works. T-T

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922615](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922615)

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