> People call them “great for prototyping,” which means “don’t use this for anything real.”
Eh, that's just copium because we all have a vested monetary interest in them not being useful for "anything real", whatever that means. If it turns out that there useful for "real things", then then entire industry would get turned on its head. (hint: they're useful for "real" things), though putting the entire codebase into the context window doesn't currently work. Aider works past this by passing the directory tree and filenames as context, so the LLM guess that /cloud/scope/cluster.go is where the cluster scope code lives and ask for that specific file to get added to the context and you can ask it to add, say, logging code to that file.