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Comment by octopoc

3 days ago

Essentially this is manual context management, and it’s still better for straightforward tasks that don’t require the AI to run commands (e.g. running unit tests).

I had Gemini cli running trying to do a straightforward refactor today, but when I copy-pasted the relevant code into the Gemini web app, it came up with the solution instantly.

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franciscop  3 days ago

Yes, I've seen this multiple times personally, it's often better to copy/paste and give detailed prompts in the standalone apps for higher quality than in the coding agents in your codebase.

  • 34679  3 days ago

    The models don't know what portion of the entire context is relevant to your most recent query. The reason it works better is because in the standalone app, your query is the entire context, whereas otherwise it's query + x irrelevant tokens.