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Jeremy Williams
@jerware.org

Machine learning is easily the most amazing technology I've witnessed in 50 years. AI is advancing so fast, and I'm not 100% sure where the public pulse is on this one. Has it swung fully into raw hatred? There's good reason for that. But it's also here, and getting astonishingly good.

Daniel
@danielbln.dev

Agentic AI like Cursor or Cline, models like Claude 3.7 are just an absolute paradigm shift for engineering. I can't even put into words how much of a seismic shift the last few months have been. Engineering loves this stuff, the art and media world, not so much. Those new video models tho, wow.

Jeremy Williams
@jerware.org

I only subscribe to ChatGPT Plus, but I've watched videos about AI-connected IDEs, and I feel like I'm missing out. It's been so incredibly helpful just as a chatbot. How good is the context window? How does it handle large code bases?

Daniel
@danielbln.dev

It uses a treemap to get an idea of all function signatures in the code base, then uses function calling to instruct the IDE to open/edit files, run shell commands and evaluate their output etc. Ive used it on giant code bases, green field, UI dev. It's a game changer compared to just using ChatGPT

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Daniel
@danielbln.dev

Context sizes have increased dramatically, as have context management techniques, to the degree that I don't really think much about context sizes anymore. In terms of models, Claude 3.7 is the pinnacle of coding models right now, and in terms of agents: Cline, Aider, Claude Code.