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Wtf are you talking about. Great programmers use LLMs for complex tasks. That was the point of my comment

And my point is that what you think are complex tasks are not really complex.

The simple case is that if you ask an agent to do a whole bunch of modifications across a large number of files, it often loses context due to context windows.

Now, you can make your own agents with custom mcp servers to basically improve its ability to do tasks, but then you are basically just building automation tools in the first place.

See my other response. I didn't define what a complex task is. I used people with reputation, intelligence and ability greater then myself to say, if they endorce it, then they must be using it on complex tasks and it must be successful to them.

I can certainly see how you're better than every one of those people and how to you what they call "complex" is just simplistic. I've never met anyone great like you.

You didn't state any complex tasks though. You only stated programmers who use LLMs.

i thought it was implied, guess not.

Great programmers wouldn't support or back AI if it couldn't handle complex tasks. AI can handle complex tasks inconsistently when operating on it's own. They can handle complex tasks consistently when pair programming with a human operator.

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