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Context has never been the bottleneck for me. AI just stops working when I reach certain things that AI doesn't know how to do.
by koakuma-chan 1y ago
Context has never been the bottleneck for me. AI just stops working when I reach certain things that AI doesn't know how to do.
- jmkni 1y agoMy problem is it keeps working, even when it reaches certain things it doesn't know how to do. I've been experimenting with Github agents recently, they use GPT-5 to write loads of code, and even make sure it compiles and "runs" before ending the task. Then you go and run it and it's just garbage, yeah it's technically building and running "something", but often it's not anything like what you asked for, and it's splurged out so much code you can't even fix it. Then I go and write it myself like the old days.
- koakuma-chan 1y agoI have same experience with CC. It loves to comment out code, add a "fallback" implementation that returns mock data, and act like the thing works.
- 0xblacklight 1y ago> Context has never been the bottleneck for me. AI just stops working when I reach certain things that AI doesn't know how to do. It's context all the way down. That just means you need to find and give it the context to enable it to figure out how to do the thing. Docs, manuals, whatever. Same stuff that you would use to enable a human that doesn't know how to do it to figure out how.
- koakuma-chan 1y agoAt that point it's easier to implement the thing yourself, and then let AI work with that.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoOr just forget the AI entirely, if you can build it yourself then do it yourself I treat "uses AI tools" as a signal that a person doesn't know what they are doing
- lacy_tinpot 1y agoSpecifically what did you have difficulty implementing where it "just stops working"?
- koakuma-chan 1y agoAnything it has not been trained on. Try getting AI to use OpenAI's responses API. You will have to try very hard to convince it not to use the chat completions API.
- anthonypasq 1y agoin cursor you can index docs by just adding a url and then reference it like file context in the editor
- dhorthy 1y agoyeah once again you need the right context to override what's in the weights. It may not know how to use the responses api, so you need to provide examples in context (or tools to fetch them)
- anthonypasq 1y agoim struggling to understand what the issue with that is
- incoming1211 1y agoThis is just an issue with people who expect AI to solve all of lifes problems before they get out of bed not realising they have no idea how AI works or what it produces and decide "it stops working because it sucks" instead of "it stops working because I don't know what I'm doing"
- yeasku 1y agoThe issue is people who cant code.