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How a Coding Agent Finds Code: Grep Versus an Embedding Index

Engineer's view. This is the site search that returns nothing for "refund" because the code says "reverse charge". A coding agent searches your repo the same way. Grep needs the exact word, and each miss costs the agent another turn. An embedding index matches by meaning, so it catches the plain-En…

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  1. 2026-11-07 13:14 · DEV Community — AI
    How a Coding Agent Finds Code: Grep Versus an Embedding Index

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