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Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by menaerus on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:24AM (#43014715)
I don't think my comment read as snarky but I was surprised to see the immediate downvote which presumably came from you so I only added the last sentence. This is a stupid way of disagreeing and attempting to shut down the discussion without merits.

> It doesn't work. Even the models that claim to have really large context windows get very distracted if you don't selectively pick relevant context.

I thought Devon is able to pre-process the whole codebase and which it could take up to a one single day for larger codebases so it must be doing something, e.g. indexing the code? If so, this isn't a context-window specific thing, it's something else and it makes me wonder how that works.

Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by lolinder on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:26AM (#43014740)
> I don't think my comment read as snarky but I was surprised to see the immediate downvote which presumably came from you so I only added the last sentence.

I can't downvote you because you are downthread of me. HN shadow-disables downvotes on all child and grandchild comments.

I'm the one who upvoted you to counteract the downvote. :)

Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by menaerus on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:14PM (#43015340)
Ok, sorry about that.
Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by whamlastxmas on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:57AM (#43015127)
And then they hugged and became lifelong friends :)
Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by menaerus on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:51PM (#43015799)
You never know - one moment arguing on HN and the second moment you know, drinking at the bar lamenting on how AI is gonna replace us :)