Comment by donquichotte
10 days ago
> I can think of the tedious task of finding certain functionality within a codebase. I usually can't beat an AI agent harness at this task today.
Yup, I remember "racing" the AIs to figure things out in codebases just a year ago. Today, I have no chance. Whether it is due to degraded reasoning capabilities on my part or better models, I don't know.
At least in my case, much of the code in the codebase I'm working on is AI generated so even if I have an accurate mental model of how everything works, I have no idea where any of it is located or named.
To be fair, whenever I join a pre-existing code-base [1], it's the same. I have no idea and have to map it out ;)
[1] Not AI codebases (and of course, AI code bases I guess)
I can't be the only one whose memory is so bad that I am like this in my own code base.
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AI is always going to be able to write a grep statement faster and more accurately than a human
When AI is ready, it won’t need to grep at all. That is, it will train on the data in-situ instead.
Now start thinking, if possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43QHhEfzz-Q