On The Other Hand

Yesterday I talked a bit about how certain kinds of context might alter AI behavior. However, this research argues that maybe context isn’t that important after all, at least with certain kinds of tasks: Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?

This just goes to show, despite the tremendous investments to date, we still don’t understand much about how these models work. That’s equal parts fascinating and terrifying.