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NoClaude, Gemini · 27 Apr 2025

I have found the state of the art models to be almost completely useless in a real large codebase

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Got in the way: Writing tests that pass in a real large codebase.

I don’t know if most software engineers build toy CRUD apps all day? I have found the state of the art models to be almost completely useless in a real large codebase. Tried Claude and Gemini latest since the company provides them but they couldn’t even write tests that pass after over a day of trying