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		mrlowlevel on March 12, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbag... Do any of these tools use the rich information from the AST to pull in context? Coupled with semantic search for entry points into the AST, it feels like you could do a lot…

zarathustreal on March 12, 2025 [–]

Don’t they all do this? Surely they’re not just doing naive text, n-gram, regex, embeddings, etc, right?

marxplank on March 13, 2025 | [–]

they are just a language model generating text which happens to be code, ASTs are not used afaik

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