Yes
It becomes pretty obvious when you use a coding AI on a daily basis
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Helped: Large context buffers allowing multi-file analysis and planning.
… You, of course, wouldn't notice if your only experience of LLMs was chatting with the cheapest, smallest, least capable LLMs that you get through ChatGPT, or Google search. It becomes pretty obvious when you use a coding AI on a daily basis. It is the context buffer in which the magic occurs, not the tokens that get spit out one at a time. …