I released a new tool recently called files-to-prompt, which concatenates together a bunch of files and directories to help pipe them into a LLM as part of a prompt
I built the tool almost entirely through prompting Claude 3 Opus. Here's a detailed write-up of how I did that and what I learned along the way:
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Apr/8/files-to-prompt/
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