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by esafak 392 days ago
"We Don't Dynamically Index Your Codebase So We Recan It with Every Query".

Wasting time and tokens like this is not something to brag about. If indexing is so hard maybe someone should start a company just to do that, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097699

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They are saving time and tokens. They are rescanning the files locally using parsing and AST without sending tokens to the model which
How does scanning the files with every request save time? The whole point of an index is to make queries faster.