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Your AI Agent's Code Search Hits 2% of the Time. We Benchmarked It.
Rigorous benchmark of AI agent code retrieval: 107 tasks, 5 repos, 5 languages, 4 competitors. grep precision: 2%. GitNexus: 7.6%. knowing: 23% (11.5x better, p<0.0001). Plus: 193x faster indexing, 28x less RAM, 48x more token-efficient than Repomix. The first statistically validated comparison of code intelligence tools for AI agents.
We Measured It: LSP Saves AI Agents 5-34x Tokens vs Grep
We built a reproducible experiment measuring how many tokens AI coding agents consume when navigating code with grep vs LSP. On HashiCorp Consul (319K lines), LSP uses 34x fewer tokens. On a TypeScript rename across 24 files: 1,441x fewer bytes. The experiment covers 4 codebases, 3 languages, 13 tasks covering 7 agent workflows.
You Don't Know JSON: Part 6 - JSON Lines: Processing Gigabytes Without Running Out of Memory
Standard JSON can’t stream - you must parse the entire document. JSON Lines solves this with one JSON object per line, enabling streaming processing, log aggregation, Unix pipelines, and handling gigabyte-scale datasets with constant memory usage.