My coding challenges are all variations on "start with this 1.5M line Spring project, full of multi-thousand-line files..."
To do the challenge one would just need to understand the platform abstraction layer which is pretty small, and write 1K to 2K LOC. We don't even use much of the GUI toolkit functionality. I certainly don't need to understand the majority of a codebase to make meaningful contributions in specific areas.
But you are aware that their limited context length just won't be able to deal with this?
That's like saying that you're judging a sedan by its capability of performing the job of a truck.
Wait, you were being sarcastic?
I am indeed saying that a sedan is incapable of handling my gigantic open-pit superfund site.
But I'll go a little farther - most meaningful, long-lived, financially lucrative software applications are metaphorically closer to the open-pit mine than the adorable backyard garden that AI tools can currently handle.