Mentor needed, apply within

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Can we have this discussion here or is there a better place?

Spending long days and too many tokens in my AI plug in for Kate.

90% of that isn’t the plug in but stopping during the development process to make alteration to how we do things. Not trying to do this as a secret thing or assuming it have never been done before.

In the process I’ve built 2 tools. An AI plugin for Kate and a code creation tool that can build a “whole program”. I’ve used it to hack GIMP and build the plug in. I’d say it would qualify as an interface builder that self documents code and comments.

I think what I want to do is split the code. The plug in is free, it was never planned to be anything else.

This evolving monster in the background, that the thing where me and the AI sort out methods, workarounds, script to avoid tokens, document, brainstorm etc. I think that should be a purchase extra.

Bottom line is that I need a mentor. Not for coding, not for ideas and concepts, more about if I split between an open source product and an additional lump of code which is source code but a paid feature what happens?

It’s more interesting as a open source project. I think that has the most potential for use. AKA it works on open source code. I’m wondering if as an alternative to paid it could be sponsored by say Anthropic?

Any mentors like that?

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We do have a mentoring program under the Season of KDE program. The thing is that is in a state of flux right now, as we are looking to expand it to include stuff like this, and this is the second proposal of this kind I have read in so many days, which tells me there is definitely a need for this.

I’m going to work on this see if we can satisfy both requests.

Thanks for kicking this off.

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I am not sure we can help with the closed source matters, as KDE does not work in that area at all. But we can help you better get it integrated into the KDE ecosystem, maybe incubate it as a KDE project. Then, if you need to build a revenue stream on that, there are KDE contributors who can advise on how you would achieve that too.