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Every AI tool I've thrown at it is great at making surgical edits to single files (or small groups of files) but completely chokes if you ask it a question that requires it to understand context across the repo
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300k lines of just Ruby code
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Helped: Making surgical edits to single files or small groups.
Got in the way: Understanding context across the large repository.
… At my job, our main repo is over 300k lines of just Ruby code, plus a bunch of JS, ERB templates, and other stuff. Every AI tool I've thrown at it is great at making surgical edits to single files (or small groups of files) but completely chokes if you ask it a question that requires it to understand context across the repo. I'm always hoping that I'm just using the tools wrong, but so far that doesn't seem to be the case.