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Identifier length and limited programmer memory (2009)

• bediger4000 5mo ago
  It will be interesting to see near-universal use of Claude (which is the worst it's ever going to be today) to write and re-write code change this. "AI" has no human cognitive biases and no "5 plus or minus 3" limitations. I, for one, expect identifier length to grow to very large lengths.
  • apothegm 5mo ago
    Longer identifiers do take more tokens in the context window, tho.