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Focus and Context and LLMs

I decided to write down some thoughts on agentic coding and why it’s a very hyped wrong turn. Let me start with some background on my LLM experience. I adopted LLMs into my work in Aug 2020. I was sold when I saw that GPT-3 could generate usable SQL statements. Something that used to take 4-8 hours of RTFMing, now took 15min. I have since worked on chatcraft.org, various RAG frameworks, etc. I use aider heavily for work, frequently switch models, have been struggling with tool calling since before MCP as even an idea.

I use aider heavily for work, frequently switch models, have been struggling with tool calling since before MCP as even an idea. I would double down on influencer claims and say that LLM-enabled tools can complete software that a large fraction of currently employed engineers would fail at I think until we come up with a better way to curate context for LLMs, they will only be truly impressive in the hands of exceptional software engineers ( Kenton and Sean are also incredible communicators).

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