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0 pointskelnos9mo ago0 comments

> People learn, LLMs don't - end of story.

That's not the end of the story, though. LLMs don't learn, but you can provide them with a "handbook" that they read in every time you start a new conversation with them. While it might take a human months or years to learn what's in that handbook, the LLM digests it in seconds. Yes, you have to keep feeding it the handbook every time you start from a clean slate, and it might have taken you months to get that handbook into the complete state it's in. But maybe that's not so bad.

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cmrdporcupine9mo ago

The good thing about this process its it means such a handbook functions as documentation for humans too, if properly written.

Claude is actually quite good at reading project documentation and code comments and acting on them. So it's also useful for encouraging project authors to write such documentation.

I'm now old enough that I need such breadcrumbs around the code to get context anyways. I won't remember why I did things without them.

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cmrdporcupine9mo ago

The good thing about this process its it means such a handbook functions as documentation for humans too, if properly written.

Claude is actually quite good at reading project documentation and code comments and acting on them. So it's also useful for encouraging project authors to write such documentation.

I'm now old enough that I need such breadcrumbs around the code to get context anyways. I won't remember why I did things without them.

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