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Comment by chaostheory

Forcing an agent to ingest more source code even if it’s just a portion of the project, needlessly eats up their context window and tokens vs giving them a decent summary of it. It results in poorer performing agents that are both slower and less capable with lower quality results at higher cost (as the context window fills up, performance declines).

Also you’re telling everyone that you don’t have proof that you actually understand what your AI built. It may not bite your company now, but it will bite them one day.

This is a prime example of bad laziness. Tbf most companies like reducing as much cost as fast as possible while ignoring the potential downsides of it, so I don’t blame anyone taking on as many projects as possible.

parent chaostheory 1 month ago

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