alt Hacker NewsYes they can. The size of many codebases is much larger and LLMs can handle those.
Consider also that they can generate summaries and tackle the novel piecemeal, just like a human would.
Re: movies. Get YouTube premium and ask YouTube to summarize a 2hr video for you.
Novel is different from a codebase. In code you can have a relationship between files and most files can be ignored depending on what you're doing. But for a novel, its a sequential thing, in most cases A leads to B and B leads to C and so on.
> Re: movies. Get YouTube premium and ask YouTube to summarize a 2hr video for you.
This is different from watching a movie. Can it tell what suit actor was wearing? Can it tell what the actor's face looked like? Summarising and watching are too different things.