Comment by xrisk
3 days ago
Might be an indication that your task unit is too unstructured or your code base is a mess.
Is your actual code doing something complex or is this incidental complexity?
Relying on the model’s “intelligence” to patch over these issues hasn’t proven to be a reliable strategy for me. Of course, this might not apply to you, just my 2 paisa.
A well structured architecture, repo, and requirements document with concrete small deliverables can be competently delivered with cheap Chinese models. We rely on frontier models so that we don't have to spend several days/weeks on planning/architecture/documentation. That's their value proposition: superior intelligence. If they can't deliver that, they're useless at the current price.