Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up

Re:Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up by fennecbutt on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @06:24PM (#45121028)

Granted, _discovery_ of such things is something I'm still trying to solve at my own job and potentially llms can at least be leveraged to analyse and search code(bases) rather than just write it.

It's difficult because you need team members to be able to work quite independently but knowledge of internal libraries can get so siloed.

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Re:Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up by captainkrtek on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @06:56PM (#45121255)

I do think the discovery piece is hugely valuable. I’m fairly capable with grep and ag, but asking Claude where something is in my codebase is very handy.

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Re:Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up by skydhash on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @07:44PM (#45121643)

I've always gone from entry point of the code (with a lot of assumptions) and then do a deep dive of one of the module or branches. After a while you develop an intuition where code may be (or follow the import/include statement).

I've explored code like FreeBSD, Busybox, Laravel, Gnome, Blender,... and it's quite easy to find you way around.

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Re:Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up by captainkrtek on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:12PM (#45121876)

Definitely, I’ve based a lot of my debugging on this. AI is just another tool in the toolbox for my searching, but usually not my first tool.

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