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I still get a lot more value from webuis than from the agentic offerings, also for more general coding tasks. The main benefit is that I can more easily manage
by tootyskooty 1y ago
I still get a lot more value from webuis than from the agentic offerings, also for more general coding tasks. The main benefit is that I can more easily manage context. A muddied or insufficient context can sometimes degrade performance by a whole model generation, ime.
What works for me is collecting it manually and going one implementation chunk at a time. If it fails, I either do it myself or break it down into smaller chunks. As models got better these chunks got larger and larger.
Collecting context manually forces me to really consider what information is necessary to solve the problem, and it's much easier to then jump in to fix issues or break it down compared to sending it off blind. It also makes it a lot faster, since I shortcircuit the context collection step and it's easier to course-correct it.
Collecting manually is about 10 seconds of work as I have an extension that copies all files I have opened to the clipboard.