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  • JackbyDev@programming.devtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world.files
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    Re: bad with large code – that’s been something I’ve been noticing as well. A project I’ve been working on for work has gotten larger now and it seems more often that it makes goofy mistakes. Like removing something somewhere but leaving something related somewhere else. My best guess is that it’s all context window stuff. As humans, we can learn a lot and keep it all in our heads. But an AI model, if it’s not something from its training set and it’s not in its context window, then it just straight up does not know it exists. I’m guessing because context windows have gotten bigger that ai coding has gotten more impressive. But we’ll see if they’re able to keep scaling that. I imagine at some point it’s gonna hit a soft wall (or at least a price wall lol).


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    I’ll preface this by saying I’m not trying to sound like a tech bro. I’m really trying to give a level and measured response.

    Over the past year, AI coding has gotten very good. It can catch weird mistakes that are not obvious. But it can also just totally miss obvious things and get caught up in shit that doesn’t matter. The best way to describe it is like an extremely eager and very smart junior developer. They get easily distracted. They get easily caught up in edge cases that don’t matter. That can easily miss extremely critical things.

    The biggest thing is that it’s fast.

    We’ll see how cheap it is long term when companies need to be profitable and run out of investors to convince.













  • To be honest, I’m a firm believer that if it’s considered required to read the news file for updating then the update tool should be printing that information for you. I used to have a hook that did it, but it was flaky. Also, I saw the creator mention that due to the design of the hooks, it happens too late in the process for some manual intervention to be done properly. But because everyone in Arch has such an obsession with “no bloat” I doubt we’ll ever see pacman have that feature.