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Context is the bottleneck for coding agents now
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There are other aspects that can affect performance, such as taste, but if we’re just talking about whether the agent succeeds or fails at a task, it’s sufficient to just consider intelligence and context. Also note that I’m including general world knowledge as part of intelligence, both for simplicity and because I think it’s hard to fully separate those two out. It needs to have a high-level understanding of how the codebase is organized and where different code lives This is important for efficient execution and also for making sure you don’t miss things.
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