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Context is the bottleneck for coding agents now

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196 points zmccormick7 | 1 comments | 26 Sep 25 15:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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maerF0x0 ◴[26 Sep 25 15:21 UTC] No.45387539[source]▶
I've noticed that chatgpt doesnt seem to be very good at understanding elapsed time. I have some long running threads and unless i prompt it with elapsed time ("it's now 7 days later") the responses act like it was 1 second after the last message.

I think this might be a good leap for agents, the ability to not just review a doc in it's current state, but to keep in context/understanding the full evolution of a document.

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1. HankStallone ◴[26 Sep 25 15:32 UTC] No.45387677[source]▶
I've noticed the same thing with Grok. One time it predicted a X% chance that something would happen by July 31. On August 1, it was still predicting the thing would happen by July 31, just with lower (but non-zero) odds. Their grasp on time is tenuous at best.