That’s not really how agentic ai programming works anymore. Tools like cursor automatically pick files as “context”, and you can manually add them or the whole ckdebase as well. That obviously uses way more tokens though.

A bunch of superfluous code that you find does nothing.

But then, as now, it won’t understand what it’s supposed to do, and will merely attempt to apply stolen code - ahem - training data in random permutations until it roughly matches what it interprets the end goal to be.

We’ve moved beyond a thousand monkeys with typewriters and a thousand years to write Shakespeare, and have moved into several million monkeys with copy and paste and only a few milliseconds to write “Hello, SEGFAULT”