• Zos_Kia
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    71 month ago

    Same experience here, performance is mediocre at best on an established code base. Recall tends to drop sharply as the context expands leading to a lot of errors.

    I’ve found coding agents to be great at bootstrapping projects on popular stacks, but once you reach a certain size it’s better to either make it work on isolated files, or code manually and rely on the auto complete.

    • So far I’ve only found it useful when describing bite-sized tasks in order to get suggestions on which functions are useful from the library/API I’m using. And only when those functions have documentation available on the Internet.