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I think the current LLMs benefit from the modular design, but also from things humans would hate: arbitrary uniqueness. If you have three services, your main() function better just be a single call to a unique function else they're going to slowly lose track of which one you're talking about.

I broke apart a 1k length script into functional components because the local AI just couldn't figure out where edits landed. But once that was complete, it had no problem tweaking features in those scopes.

I think the real TAM is local coding models starting around 32GB sometime in 2027. Obviously, Capitalism gets to decide what we're blessed with but knowing that you can get Qwen3.8-Flash-Next running at around 40GB VRAM with SSD offloading means data centers are either going to become way more efficient, or they're going to die on the vine.

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