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by jjani 448 days ago
How much lines of context and understanding can we, human developers, keep in our heads, taken into account and refer to when implementing something?

Whatever the amount may be, it definitely fits into 300k tokens.

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After more than a few years working on a codebase? Quite a lot. I know which interfaces I need and from where, what the general areas of the codebase are, and how they fit together, even if I don’t remember every detail of every file.