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sgbealyesterday at 4:02 PM1 replyview on HN

> Give coding agents access to intellisense and syntax highlighting.

i once asked an LLM if it could ingest code from an interactive session more easily if it were in appropriately-typed markdown fences and it said absolutely yes, and that the syntax highlighting fed to it that way helps it immensely. i was downright shocked that syntax highlighting was anything more than noise for them.


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devmoryesterday at 7:56 PM

Why would this be surprising? That’s exactly how much of the code they were trained on is presented in PRs, Forums, etc.

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