I asked chatgpt about GitHub copilot and Gemini CLI, Re complex refactor where I'm stripping out pure java logic from a GWT client module incrementally in a correct order so the app isn't broken at any stage: Chatgpt also says: your instinct — “maybe AI can’t do that” — is correct. It uses an analogy: AI is good at: rebinding books, rewriting titles, rearranging whole shelves It is bad at: Knowing which single book is safe to slide now. That’s human judgement grounded in system knowledge.
Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer On Sat, Jan 3, 2026 at 4:13 PM, Jens<[email protected]> wrote: How do you use Gemini / ChatGPT? Via some IDE plugin or just their website? For example if you use Github Copilot and use the official IDE plugin then you can store markdown files in your project which describe your stack, coding patterns, etc. The plugin will then read these files and add the content to the context of each chat session you start. That way the model always knows these information. These files are different for models / plugins, e.g. Gemini CLI searches for GEMINI.md files if I remember correctly. You have to read the docs of the tools you are using. These language models are good at pattern recognition and pattern completion. They cannot read your mind nor have a mind. What matters is that the context passed to the model is good and that it can see clear instructions so it must not guess. Only then the output will be good. -- J. Tim Macpherson schrieb am Freitag, 2. Januar 2026 um 19:30:31 UTC+1: Gemini just output that for a complex refactor where I'm stripping out pure java logic from a GWT client module incrementally in a correct order so the app isn't broken at any stage: AI can't do that, agents or whatever. Maybe in 5 years, I have no idea Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM, 'Tim Macpherson' via GWT Users<[email protected]> wrote: Thanks, I heard the agents in cloud can be a security risk for proprietary code, but there are options to keep it private. Thinking about it an agent would be overkill for my purposes, I just want something that doesn't have to be constantly corrected because it's forgotten my current stack. It can just about remember that I'm using Java GWT and D3 js, memory of a 4 year old Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM, Jens<[email protected]> wrote: What is your goal? AI agents running locally are usually a security nightmare (data deletion, secret exfiltration via prompt injection) so you have two choices: 1.) babysit them all the time and review, understand and confirm any command the agent wants to execute. Otherwise it might delete your drive accidentally and feels really sorry about it or it reads an untrusted website with some prompt injection sections which causes the model to do something totally different. As a middleground you can allow read/search commands by default but still review everything else. 2.) Run the agent autonomously in a secure environment to protect your local data. This can be a local VM, a local docker container (e.g. use devcontainers for development in general or just run the agent in a container) or an OS provided sandbox mechanism. Then you make only the folders accessible to the environment (and thus the AI agent) which are required. If your agent should use the internet for research then you must control network requests (e.g. allowed domains). Depending on the code size and the task complexity an AI agent is relatively slow as it does a lot of research in the code base first before implementing stuff. So if you work on a laptop it might be annoying to wait for the agent to complete. So the last option is using agents in the cloud which also solves the security issue for your local data as the cloud solutions usually must clone your repository from somewhere. -- J. Tim Macpherson schrieb am Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2025 um 20:25:14 UTC+1: Following on from a recent post about AI, I use basic chatgpt or Gemini. Should I be using AI agents such as Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, etc ? My current AI usage is ok for specifics but awful at remembering things. Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. 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