Post #3606701
2026-07-05 15:02 UTC
@jrf_nl@phpc.social @elazar@phpc.social The fact that AI can’t learn is one of the worst parts about using it. There are certain things that are so prevalent in the training data that any amount of “memory” files stressing the importance of doing things a certain way will not overcome the tendency to follow what it was trained on.
One of those things is using commas instead of concatenation operators in PHP echo statements.
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@elazar@phpc.social 2026-07-05 15:08
@ramsey@phpc.social As it happens, I came across this article today, and think it makes a similar and relevant point, albeit in a round-about and likely unintentional kind of way. "Retrieval is the wrong tool for finding code an agent can fetch itself, and the right tool for remembering things an agent has no way to rediscover from the repo as it stands today." A limited and often lacking ability to curate and navigate memories heavily curtails the usefulness of models. https://www.qodo.ai/blog/we-built-a-state-of-the-art-rag-system-for-code-review-in-qodo-2-4-we-took-most-of-it-out/ @jrf_nl@phpc.social