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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by thedelanyo on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @02:50AM (#44296324)
So AI is basically best as a search engine.
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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by groestl on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @02:52AM (#44296334)
That's right.
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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by cess11 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:28AM (#44296542)
I mean, it's just a compressed database with a weird query engine.
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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by jrm4 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @11:20AM (#44300258)
As I've said a bunch.

AI is a search engine that can also remix its results, often to good effect.

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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by antisthenes on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:59PM (#44303281)
Alwayshasbeen.jpg meme.

I mean yes, current large models are essentially compressing incredible amounts of content into something manageable by a single Accelerator/GPU, and making it available for retrieval through inference.

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