Yes
Now I send an LLM to go find it and it comes back with a list of files and line numbers in minutes
Aurornis on Hacker News
30 minutes
In the thread “What we lost the last time code got cheap”, replying to this comment
Helped: Finding specific parts of large codebases quickly.
Got in the way: Missing known code on first pass without directed prompting.
… A couple years ago I would have to allocate 30 minutes some times to either trace through the code base or setup and attach a debugger to step through the code until I found the part I needed to know about. Now I send an LLM to go find it and it comes back with a list of files and line numbers in minutes. It’s still not perfect. …