Counterpoint: coding is special because context sits in standardized repos, most domains aren't
binarybits · x · 2026-09-10
Timothy Lee pushes back on Ryan Greenblatt's claim that "most domains are fundamentally pretty shallow" and AI can quickly pick up many domains. His counterpoint: the key reason AI models can quickly understand a codebase is that most relevant context in code lives in a standardized format inside a GitHub repository — very few other domains are like this, and many domains are surprisingly deep.
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