> I’ve been noticing a trend among developers that use AI: they are increasingly writing and structuring docs in context folders so that the AI powered tools they use can build solutions autonomously and with greater accuracy
To me this means a lot of engineers are spending time maintaining files that help them automate a few things for their job. But sinking all that time into context for an LLM is most likely going to net you efficiency gains only for the projects that the context was originally written for. Other projects might benefit from smaller parts of these files, but if engineers are really doing this then there probably is some efficiency lost in the creation and management of it all.
If I had to guess contrary to your post is that devs aren’t RTFM, but instead asking Llm or web search what a good rule/context/limitation would be and pasting it into a file. In which case the use of Llms is a complexity shift.
I think some are doing just that, yes, which I guess would only increase entropy. So it's not just curation, but also design through words. Good old specs, if you want.
Sure but the specs are informal and unadaptable then. Usually a specification follows some sort of guiding format and organized thought. Usually abstracted from the whims of the author to make the spec clear. Context files are what? Dev notes and cheat sheet?
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> I’ve been noticing a trend among developers that use AI: they are increasingly writing and structuring docs in context folders so that the AI powered tools they use can build solutions autonomously and with greater accuracy
To me this means a lot of engineers are spending time maintaining files that help them automate a few things for their job. But sinking all that time into context for an LLM is most likely going to net you efficiency gains only for the projects that the context was originally written for. Other projects might benefit from smaller parts of these files, but if engineers are really doing this then there probably is some efficiency lost in the creation and management of it all.
If I had to guess contrary to your post is that devs aren’t RTFM, but instead asking Llm or web search what a good rule/context/limitation would be and pasting it into a file. In which case the use of Llms is a complexity shift.
I think some are doing just that, yes, which I guess would only increase entropy. So it's not just curation, but also design through words. Good old specs, if you want.
Sure but the specs are informal and unadaptable then. Usually a specification follows some sort of guiding format and organized thought. Usually abstracted from the whims of the author to make the spec clear. Context files are what? Dev notes and cheat sheet?
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