"The repos are now the prompts, 100%": Ofir Press on AI coding's shifting context
OfirPress · x · 2026-10-02
Princeton researcher Ofir Press endorses a claim sent by a scholar with double his h-index: "the repos are now the prompts 100%" — in the AI coding era, output quality is determined less by hand-crafted prompts and more by the repository itself.
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