Nolan Lawson @nolan@toot.cafe
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"The Context Collapse Problem" by Lloyd Moore codegood.co/writing/context-co

It sounds like the problem here is that they were trying to solve a people problem with AI. I've worked in exactly these kinds of codebases, where knowledge about the code is a kind of "oral culture" where you have to know who to ask before you start making changes. Sic'ing an AI on that kind of codebase is going to cause a lot of carnage.

The Context Collapse Problem, CodeGood

AI coding tools amplify whatever they can access. In codebases where institutional knowledge lives in engineers' heads rather than accessible form, AI amplifies nothing. The companies pulling ahead aren't those with better AI tools—they're those making their existing knowledge AI-legible.

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