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It's faster than me at drilling through all the layers of abstractions in large codebases to answer questions about how something is implemented and where the a
by cma 1y ago
It's faster than me at drilling through all the layers of abstractions in large codebases to answer questions about how something is implemented and where the actual calculation or functionality gets done, so with that alone it's much more useful than web chat interfaces.
- nico 1y agoYes, when initially starting out the task/feature. But also most likely the agent won’t be able to fully do it on its own, and at that point the agent is not necessarily that much more useful than the chat Also, local agents miss context all the time, at which point you need to manually start adding/managing the context anyway And, if you are regularly working on the codebase, at some point you’ll probably have better in-brain initial context than the agent
- jpc0 1y agoI know it is difficult to run software locally in some instances but at this point I feel it is probably quicker to implement tracing or improving the local development flow. A breakpoint in a debugger is much much quicker than feeding the AI all the context needed and then confirming it didn’t miss some flow in some highly abstract code