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Software Engineering with AI

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Lesson 1Week 1: Harnessing: how AI coding tools actually work

What the model actually sees

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  1. 1Explain what a context window is and why it is a hard budget, not a preference
  2. 2Predict which failures are caused by missing context rather than model weakness
  3. 3Estimate roughly how much of a codebase fits in a session
  4. 4Diagnose why an assistant "forgot" something you said earlier

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