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Software Engineering with AI
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Lesson 1Week 1: Harnessing: how AI coding tools actually work
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What you'll learn
- 1Explain what a context window is and why it is a hard budget, not a preference
- 2Predict which failures are caused by missing context rather than model weakness
- 3Estimate roughly how much of a codebase fits in a session
- 4Diagnose why an assistant "forgot" something you said earlier
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