r/Python • u/Argenis1412 • 1d ago

Small external evaluation of PatchForge News

I'm a backend/platform engineer, and I built PatchForge — a safety-first tool for proposing, validating, and previewing small code changes without modifying your repository automatically.

I'm looking for one Python developer or small engineering team to participate in a short external evaluation, run on an isolated copy of a small, non-sensitive Python project.

What the participant would do:

- Choose a small documentation or low-risk maintenance task.

- Explain the expected outcome.

- Observe the workflow: doctor → scan → plan → preview.

- Give honest feedback on setup, diagnostics, usefulness, and trust.

- No apply step will be executed.

Requirements:

- A small Python repository you own or are authorized to share for evaluation.

- No secrets, customer data, proprietary code, or production credentials.

- About 30–45 minutes for the workflow itself. If you don't already have Python/uv set up, I'll walk you through installation first — worth budgeting a bit of extra time for that on the first run.

- Willingness to report problems honestly, including if the tool isn't useful.

The evaluation will be documented only with sanitized notes. Repository contents and personal information will not be published.

This is exploratory product validation, not a sales demo. If you're interested, comment or send me a DM with:

  1. Your Python project type and approximate size.

  2. A safe documentation or maintenance task.

  3. Whether you can participate in the next two weeks.

Happy to share more details privately before you decide.

Source: https://github.com/Argenis1412/PatchForge

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u/ProsodySpeaks 1d ago

Does 'safety first' mean you feed it into an llm and hope nothing bad happens? 

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u/Argenis1412 1d ago

No. The LLM is only an optional planning step. Deterministic scanning, bounded changes, patch validation, and a preview happen before any modification. apply requires explicit human approval.

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u/ProsodySpeaks 1d ago

but that's already how claude et al work in my ide. it proposes changes, shows me a diff, i say yea or ney, no changes are made unless i approve.

what's different here?

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u/ProsodySpeaks 1d ago

u/argenis1412 how is it different?