Apologies, I made two important omissions: On 2026-08-11 21:27, Christian Kastner wrote: > On 2026-08-11 19:57, Matthias Geiger wrote: >> Lintian complaining that a package has no watch file. An LLM might try >> to "help" by writing a d/watch file. However, without context, this can >> be totally wrong. > > Yes, and this was realized from the very beginning, resp. a design decision. > > LLM solutions have evolved substantially. The have been doing retrieval > augmented generation, tool calling, and do lots of other things for many > years now.
Conclusions: yes, lack of context is (was?) a problem, so people started addressing that as soon as possible, but implementing mechanisms that give LLMs as much extra context as possible. > Here's a simple dialog [1] with Kagi Assistant [2] ... > [1]: https://assistant.kagi.com/share/d6c4e3fe-639d-4a5d-ad29-0e20df0a8ae4 [2]: Kagi is an alternative (and ad-free) search engine, and Kagi Assistant is their bridge to many LLMs. Best, Christian
