It worked really well on a medium-sized codebase in my day job where other agents would fail
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Helped: Navigating big codebases and providing context for LLM execution.
Got in the way: Frequent errors and timeouts requiring manual retries.
I've heard about Augment Code on X and what piqued my interest was their "context engine" which is a fancy way of saying they have a way of navigating big codebases and providing enough context for their LLM to execute your query. It worked really well on a medium-sized codebase in my day job where other agents would fail. It's a VS Code extension so I'm using it inside Cursor and depending on a task I would either use Cursor's Agent mode (for simpler, more constrained tasks) or Augment Code's (for tasks that span multiple files and are more vague and/or require more steps to finish). …