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This story sounds a lot like GPT2.
“It’s not working well enough!” We tell them. They respond with “Have you tried using it more?”
If I wasn’t forced to use it I wouldn’t as there are better options available.
They did the same with Chrome extensions.
Cars only work because we can predict driver behavior, if they break that prediction that’s when bad things are likely to happen…
Lately I’ve started to ignore Tesla blinker.
I run both gemeni (fee) and codex (paid), with tmux thrown in to switch between phone and laptop. Laptop runs vscode with ssh to my server but I could also use the web version of vscode.
For example, there's been many times when they take it too literally instead of looking at the totality of the context and what was written. I'm not an LLM, so I don't have perfect grasp on every vocab term for every domain and it feels especially pandering when they repeat back the wrong word but put it in quotes or bold instead of simply asking if I meant something else.
Also rule files and other "memory sharing" are crutches. If it's that important just put it in your readme or other documentation and the LLM can get the context from that just like your teammates.
Plus isn't it a little silly this extremely well capitalized companies can't figure out how to get an LLM to follow a readme effectively and instead wave it away by saying you need to now maintain yet another thing?