Cody Conversational flow - Should sometimes stop reading files

[JulienElkaim]

Hello,

I would love to use Cody as a conversational assistant helping me to generate code with some iterations as it does not always generate the right answer at first.

As Cody is designed to help search on the repo, it ALWAYS read files when I send a message, but sometimes I just want to give him feedbacks so it generate a better sample code.

Maybe it's not the intended usage of Cody, but if ok I would love to have a "Conversational flow" button where Cody is just providing the LLM functions for the time of a prompt, and then can come back to its Sourcegraph mode.

Thanks to Sourcegraph's technology, this coding assistant has the potential to become the senior dev of everyone's team, which is ultimately what we all look for when it comes to AI coding assistants.

PS: Thank you for this great product !

[beyang]

A strawman proposal here would be:

• Implement this behavior in a command, say /chat
• Modify the behavior so that follow-up questions don't fetch new context, so only the context fetched for the original answer is considered.

Adding this for discussion in the next planning cycle.

[beyang]

This will be addressed by the redesign in https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody/issues/1410. Closing this in favor of that