How AI Coding Models Are Outpacing Our Context Control Systems
By
James Felix Black
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Summary
The author reflects on how their coding process has evolved over the past year while using AI models to write code. They note that while models are improving at executing tasks, the growing gap between what these models enable and the existing systems for controlling context is widening at an accelerating rate. The piece explores how our intuitions and practices from the last two decades—when code was expensive—are being challenged by these new capabilities.
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My process has changed over the course of the last few months, partly because the models are getting better at executing on the tasks I set them, but mostly because the gap between what the models enable and the systems for controlling context we all live in is growing, and growing at an ever-increasing rate.
Our intuitions and practices put together over the last couple of decades, when code was expensive...
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