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858 points cryptophreak | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.011s | source
1. 6h6j65j76k ◴[] No.42935886[source]
"Current AI tools pretend writing software is like having a conversation. "

But that is true? Devs spend more time in meetings than writing code. Having conversations about the code they are going to write.

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2. martinsnow ◴[] No.42935944[source]
I agree. But in that context we're talking about specifications.

When we're trying to wrangle a piece of code to do something we want but aren't quite sure of how to interact with the api, it's a different matter.

What i found is that by the time copilot/gpt/deepseek has enough knowledge about the problem and my codebase, I've run out of tokens. Because my head can contain a much larger problem area than these models allow me to feed them in a budget friendly manner.