Comment by tstrimple

Oh sure. Context windows have been less useful for me on programming tasks than other things. When working iteratively against a CSV file for instance, it can be very useful. I’ve used something very similar to the following before:

“Okay, now add another column which is the price of the VM based on current Azure costs and the CPU and Memory requirements listed.”

“This seems to only use a few Azure VM SKU. Use the full list.”

“Can you remove the burstable SKU?”

Though I will say simple error fixes with context windows with programming issues are resolved fine. On more than one occasion when I copy and paste an incorrect solution. Providing the LLM with the error is enough to fix the problem. But if it goes beyond that, it’s best to abandon the context.