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by shermantanktop 39 days ago
Do inefficient grep/sed behaviors have a secondary benefit in seeding the context with breadcrumbs of code from irrelevant matches?
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In theory maybe, but in practice it hurts more than it helps I think. Irrelevant context makes the model more likely to reason from the wrong code (and it's slower and more expensive).