[alonsonic]

AI assistants are also quite good at helping you create a high level map of a codebase. They are able to traverse the whole project structure and functionality and explain to you how things are organized and what responsibilities are. I just went back to an old project (didn't remember much about it) and used Cursor to make a small bug fix and it helped me get it done in no time. I used it to identify where the issue might be based on logs and then elaborate on potential causes before then suggesting a solution and implementing it. It's the ultimate pair programmer setup.

[insane_dreamer]

> I just went back to an old project (didn't remember much about it) and used Cursor to make a small bug fix and it helped me get it done in no time.

That sounds quite useful. Does Cursor feed your entire project code (traversing all folders and files) into the context?

[Anamon]

Do you ever verify those explanations, though? Because I occasionally try having an LLM summarise an article or document I just read, and it's almost always wrong. I have my doubts that they would fare much better in "understanding" an entire codebase.

My constant suspicion is that most results people are so impressed with were just never validated.