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kccqzyyesterday at 4:26 PM

It’s interesting but I think it’s measuring the wrong thing. Abstraction is a fundamental principle in software. As a human, I’ve worked with classes and modules far larger than what fits in my head, just because I’m only fitting the function signatures and purpose into my head, and not the implementation details. In practice I find Claude really good at extracting useful information in a human-like way from a codebase. It doesn’t usually stuff the entire codebase into its context window.

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