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		manishsharan 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the AI Bubble Will Pop This is exactly my experience. We wanted to modernize a java codebase by removing java JNDI global variables. This is a simple though tedious task. And we tried Claude Code and Gemini. Both of these results were hilarious.

Workaccount2 6 months ago [–]

LLMs are awful at tedious tasks. Usually because it involves massive context.

You will have much more success if you can compartmentalize and use new LLM instances as often as possible.

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