Code context and understanding is very important for improving the quality of LLM generated code, it’s why the core of our coding agent product Bismuth (which I

Code context and understanding is very important for improving the quality of LLM generated code, it’s why the core of our coding agent product Bismuth (which I won’t link but if you’re so inclined check my profile) is built around a custom code search engine that we’ve also built. We segment the project into logical areas based on what the user is asking, then find interesting symbol information and use it to search call chain information which we’ve constructed at project import. This gives the LLM way better starting context and we then provide it tools to move around the codebase through normal methods you or I would use like go_to_def. We’ve analyzed a lot of competitor products and very few have done anything other than a rudimentary project skeleton like Aider or just directly feeding opened code as context which breaks down very quickly on large code projects. We’re very happy with the level of quality we see from our implementation and it’s something that really feels overlooked sometimes by various products in this space. Realistically, the only other product I know of approaching this correctly with any degree of search sophistication is Cody from SourceGraph which yeah, makes sense.