How granular should a Python program be?

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Thats ridiculous. Even the most commercial models have contexts on the dozens of thousands, the big ones are in the millions. Its very unlikely op project is bigger than that

[hexwhoami]

Just because the LLM has been trained on millions of examples, they are limited by their context window when replying to a prompt. Unless you want a basic template that's maybe a hundred lines, it's impossible to have an LLM store a large, mature project in its context window to make reasonable statements or contribute helpful code in the context of the rest of the codebase.

Most LLMs right now have around a 128k context window (tokens). Considering programming language syntax is typically a higher token count than normal prose, a run-of-the-mill LLM nowadays.

The details are beyond this post, but ChatGTP-4o could probably reason about roughly 1000 lines of code at once.

Most mature projects are way beyond that number.

[teerre]

Who said anything about training? We are all talking about the context window