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Information work is bottlenecked by high-signal context more than by inference

by delifue on 3/10/25, 1:35 AM with 1 comments

  • by delifue on 3/10/25, 1:43 AM

    This kind of explains why LLMs are good at making demos and good at writing code under clear specification, but often break existing features in a large codebase. When codebase become large, the signal-to-noise ratio of context reduces.