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178 points Runonthespot | 1 comments | 07 Sep 25 11:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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0x696C6961 ◴[07 Sep 25 14:24 UTC] No.45158402[source]▶
This is cool, but I don't understand why it tries to re-implement (a subset of) grep. Not only that, but the grep-like behaviour is the default and I need to opt-in to the semantic search using the --sem flag. If I want grep I can use grep/ripgrep.
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1. CuriouslyC ◴[07 Sep 25 19:02 UTC] No.45161164[source]▶
The reason to overload grep is that the agents already understand most of the semantics and are primed to use it, so it's a small lift to get them to call a modified grep with some minor additional semantics.