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Your AI Coding Agent is Blind. Here's the Fix.

Your AI Coding Agent is Blind. Here's the Fix.

via Dev.toLinghua Jin

I've been using Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex daily. And I kept hitting the same wall. The agent would hallucinate functions. Suggest code that almost worked. Miss obvious patterns that were right there in the codebase. I thought it was a model problem. It wasn't. It was a context problem. The Real Reason Your AI Agent Keeps Getting It Wrong When your coding agent tries to understand your codebase, it does something naive by default: it reads files. Sometimes whole files. Sometimes random chunks. The problem? Most codebases are too large to fit in a context window. So the agent gets a sliced, incomplete, often misleading view of your code. Imagine asking a surgeon to operate while only being able to see through a 2-inch hole. That's your AI agent right now. The agent isn't dumb. It's just blind . The Fix: AST-Based Semantic Search Here's what changes everything: instead of feeding your agent raw file contents or naive text chunks, you give it semantically meaningful code units — extra

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