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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by noosphr on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:38PM (#46582750)
Indeed, filling the adversitsed context more than 1/4 full is a bad idea in general. 50k tokens is a fair bit, but works out to between 1 and 10k lines of code.

Perfect for a demo or work on a single self contained file.

Disastrous for a large code base with logic scattered all throughout it.

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by trollbridge on Sunday January 11, 2026 @10:05PM (#46583525)
Right. It’s not practical to apply AI tools as they are today to existing, complex code bases and get reliable results.

Greenfield is easy (but it always was). Working on well-organised modules that are self contained and cleanly designed is easy - but that always was, too.

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