alt Hacker NewsHumans built codebases many millions of lines long, well before LLMs existed. Human memory has not been a restriction on us in a long time.
Look at all the libraries full of books we've built. It's useful for more than mere training sets.
Humans built codebases many millions of lines long, well before LLMs existed. Human memory has not been a restriction on us in a long time.
Look at all the libraries full of books we've built. It's useful for more than mere training sets.
I think the trick here is plural; I guarantee no single human knows all 1 million lines. Note this is different than knowing how to orient yourself in a million line codebase quickly.
The limit here I think the ancestor comments are getting at is cognitive load, which is real and measured. We only have so much memory to devote to a "stack" when executing, and it's usually quite constrained.