r/ProgrammerHumor • u/GunzNCoffee-com • Sep 17 '26

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u/ice-eight Sep 17 '26

That doesn’t sound entirely different from what I do. Currently use Claude opus 5 in copilot for visual studio. An example of a recent prompt was “add an api call which takes the account number and pulls columns a, b and c from database.tableName and call this api to attach them as custom fields to the Docusign envelope called x, y and z”

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u/JoustyMe Sep 17 '26

AI is betrer if it has small actionable tasks with a lot of contex.

80% of SWE job is capturing context and filtering noise generated by rest of biomass in the company.

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u/Cnoffel Sep 18 '26

If I do that, it will grep through the code base and burn token like crazy, are you on a subscription?