I got an astonishing report out of Gemini Pro 3, it was absolutely spot on
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hundreds of thousands of lines of code
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Helped: Reading external identifiers into context for complex pattern searching.
Got in the way: Other models got confused or complained about style issues.
… For example, I recently went through tens of megabytes(!) of stored procedures looking for transaction patterns that would be incompatible with read committed snapshot isolation. I got an astonishing report out of Gemini Pro 3, it was absolutely spot on. Most other models barfed on this request, they got confused or started complaining about future maintainability issues, stylistic problems or whatever, no matter how carefully I prompted them to focus on the task at hand. …