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0 pointsthrowaw1220d ago0 comments

no worries, I do not get offended quickly.

But I also think you are overestimating your RESEARCH skills, even if you are very good at research, I am sure you can't read 25 files in parallel, summarize them (even if its missing some details) in 1 minute and then come up with somewhat working solution in the next 2 minutes.

I am pretty sure, humans can't comprehend reading 25 code files with each having at least 400 lines of non-boilerplate code in 2 minutes. LLM can do it and its very very good at summarizing.

I can even steer its summarizing skills by prompting where to focus on when its reading files (because now I can iterate 2-3 times for each RESEARCH task and improve my next attempt based on shortcomings in the previous attempt)

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truetraveller20d ago

OK, it's not just RESEARCH, but "RESEARCHability" of the source content [in this case code], and also critical analysis ability [not saying you are deficient in anything, speaking in general terms].

In this example, if the 25 files are organized nicely, and I had I nice IDE that listed class/namespace members of each file neatly, I might take 30 minutes to understand the overall structure.

Morever, If I critically analyzed this, I would ask "how many times does this event of summarizing 25 files happen"? I mean, are we changing codebases every day? No, it's a one time cost. Moreover, manually going through will provide insight not returned by LLM.

Obviously, every case is different, and perhaps you do need to RESEARCH new codebases often, I dunno!

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