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80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful
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You are both right. An LLM inherently has access to stuff the same way a brain in a jar has access to stuff. It's information comes from fine-tuning the models to return syntax that agent code can interpret as a request to invoke a tool. That tool returns information to the context of the conversation. It doesn't learn and it can't truly remember things. Every time you start a session it is brand new. It sees your codebase for the first time every time.
The information access they have is whatever the agent allows it to access via tool exposure. Be it built in tools, or MCP servers
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind... it has its advantages.
I have mine develop and maintain a set of documentation to introduce fresh agents to the project efficiently and correctly.