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Comment by JamesSwift

6 hours ago

> How do you all keep your context so low? Complex tasks just balloon it in my experience.

By breaking the problem into discrete steps and aggressively restarting the prompt from the current state after completion of said steps

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embedding-shape  6 hours ago

AKA "divide and conquer", how we programmers been fighting ever bigger and more complex problems since probably forever.

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