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Re:How I Program with Agents by JackFr on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @01:04PM (#44249587)
Although it cannot understand the rhetorical why as in a frustrated “Why on earth would you possibly do it that brain dead way?”

Instead of the downcast, chastened look of a junior developer, it responds with a bulleted list of the reasons why it did it that way.

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Re:How I Program with Agents by danielbln on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @02:16PM (#44250290)
Oh, it can infer quite a bit. I've seen many times in reasoning traces "The user is frustrated, understandably, and I should explain what I have done" after an exasperated "why???"
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