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Re:The LLM RAG Obituary: Killed by Agents, Buried by Context... by codyb on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:23AM (#45449996)
Jump to definition works when you have the starting point already.

I use both grep and JTD fairly frequently for different use cases.

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Re:The LLM RAG Obituary: Killed by Agents, Buried by Context... by eru on Thursday October 02, 2025 @09:04PM (#45457557)
Yes.

I meant 'Jump to Definition' as one clear example, not as a definitive enumeration of everything that compiler integration can help you with.

Eg compiler integration is also really useful to show you the inferred types. Even dinosaurs like old-school Java and C have (limited) type inference: inside of expressions. But of course in a language like Haskell or Rust (or even Python) this becomes much more important.

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