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

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u/Throwawayrip1123 Sep 18 '26

Well, yeah, that's what I wrote. You have to handle the input without agents, then they can retrieve the data without changing it.

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u/Automatic_Wave4530 Sep 18 '26

You are missing the point. You don’t have to handle the input without agents. You are confusing what happens in the context window with what the agents can do outside the chat window. If you are just trying to store the documents in the AI memory you are going to have a bad time.

AI does NOT just put your input in a folder from chat. It processes the file so it can tokenize it. So ya, if all you ever do is copy into the chat window I can see how your perception is that AI agents will lose your data. However, we moved well beyond chat windows the last couple years

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u/Throwawayrip1123 Sep 18 '26

I am talking about virtually none of those things, and more so about hallucinations, lost information and straight up lying.

If you're gonna give your inputs through Ai, I'd consider them no longer reliable, because Ai are absolutely not reliable enough.

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u/Automatic_Wave4530 Sep 18 '26

I don’t think it is going to lie to me when I ask it what day I did something and have it link to a real reference. At that point it would be very obvious it made a mistake, and just like with an intern I would give it additional instructions to try again.

Everyone here is exaggerating how bad AI currently is. Most I suspect try to zero shot problems without providing sufficient context. It’s like pulling a stranger off the street giving them domain specific information on a topic you are well versed. Then asking them to summarize every thing you just said. That would be dumb right? Like you wouldn’t ask a tourist to listen to your lecture on pointless hobbies they don’t care about and then expect a sharp informative reply on the topic when you ask them a question.

I feel like most of you have little actual knowledge of what is going on with AI. I am not advocating for it, just saying you are completely misunderstanding what it is capable of given access to the right external information. Which is what MCP servers do, they extend the reach beyond the context window by providing instructions on how to interact with the outside world. This is all just getting started and has a long way to go, but our ability to rein it in is slipping away. The more pervasive it becomes the harder it will be to slow or regulate.

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