Your AI agent doesn't understand your codebase. It greps it.
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Before touching a class, a careful developer asks one question: who depends on this? An agent answers it the only way it can. It runs a text search, reads whatever comes back, and decides the change is local. Most of the time that's fine. The times it isn't are the expensive ones. What grep can't s…
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- 2026-10-05 12:30 · DEV Community — AI
Your AI agent doesn't understand your codebase. It greps it.