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Context-first approach to code AI

Quinn Slack · 16 Mar 2024

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  1. The best AI dev is the one with the best ƒ(code), assuming equal access to equally capable, cheap, and fast LLMs. Everything else about an AI dev is undifferentiated.
  2. Human code review and slow CI will start becoming obsolete/irrelevant in a world with AI devs with better-than-~80%ile-human ƒ(code)s.
  3. I believe today’s SOTA LLMs, used by an AI dev with an ƒ(code) that is feasible to build today (but well beyond what anyone has actually built yet), are sufficiently capable to automate coding way beyond what most people think possible.
  4. And since the best AI dev is the one with the best ƒ(code), and the best ƒ(code) comes from having the most comprehensive context and using it smartly, that means that context is the most important part of an AI dev.
  5. Any AI built by a vendor that only integrates with that vendor’s own tools will be very limited compared to one that can slurp up info from all the tools you use.

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