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by grandfugue 243 days ago
It's about structures. A long function is unfortunately "flat" at the first glance. Even if there are inherent structures, it usually burns a lot of brain power for a human to abstract structures out of "flat". Being flat is a more acute issue for LLM to understand. I think in the LLM era it's more important than ever to keep things short and structured.