> 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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devmor 6 hours ago | parent [-]

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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astrange 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is that true? That depends on how their web scraping works, like whether it runs client-side highlighting, strips out HTML tags, etc.

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		The highlighting isn't what matters, its the pretext. E.g. An LLM seeing "```python" before a code block is going to better recall python codeblocks by people that prefixed them that way.