Does semantic code search actually beat grep on a real repo?
The pitch for embedding a codebase is always the same demo: you ask "where do we lock users out?", grep finds nothing because the code calls it a cooldown, and vector search lands on the right function. It is a good demo. The question is how often it holds up on code nobody picked for the demo. So…
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- 2026-11-06 03:40 · DEV Community — AI
Does semantic code search actually beat grep on a real repo?