alt Hacker News> I can think of the tedious task of finding certain functionality within a codebase. I usually can't beat an AI agent harness at this task today.
Yup, I remember "racing" the AIs to figure things out in codebases just a year ago. Today, I have no chance. Whether it is due to degraded reasoning capabilities on my part or better models, I don't know.
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kalstone • yesterday at 8:44 PM
AI is always going to be able to write a grep statement faster and more accurately than a human
DonHopkins • yesterday at 9:50 PM
Now start thinking, if possible.
At least in my case, much of the code in the codebase I'm working on is AI generated so even if I have an accurate mental model of how everything works, I have no idea where any of it is located or named.