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Comment by kaffekaka | original | Grieving the loss of details
[−]kaffekaka · 2026-10-11 Sun 08:00 UTC · link
I try this really hard but it seems that getting an LLM to simplify a code base meaningfully is a much harder problem than getting it to output mostly functioning features very quickly.

They are great at adding but reducing takes much more hand-holding in my experience. Maybe this will improve, maybe it does not matter, maybe I am holding it wrong, I don't know.

[−]jaapz · 2026-10-11 Sun 08:45 UTC · link
What models are you using?